Source: ReutersObama slams Holocaust deniers at concentration camp
Fri Jun 5, 2009
By David Alexander
BUCHENWALD, Germany (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama took aim at those who deny the Holocaust -- including Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- when he made an emotional visit to the Buchenwald concentration camp on Friday. After telling a U.S. television network that Ahmadinejad should visit Buchenwald himself, Obama accompanied two survivors of the Holocaust and Chancellor Angela Merkel on a tour of the camp, outside Weimar in eastern Germany.
"To this day we know there are those who insist the Holocaust never happened, a denial of a fact or truth that is baseless, ignorant and hateful," Obama said in a brief address. "This place is the ultimate rebuke to such thoughts, a reminder of our duty to confront those who would tell lies about our history," he added. "I will not forget what I have seen here today. These sights have not lost their horror over time."
Buchenwald survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, 80, accompanied Obama to the camp set up by the Nazis in 1937. An estimated 56,000 people were killed there.
Obama and Merkel also visited the so-called Little Camp, where the conditions and treatment of prisoners were especially poor. Wiesel was kept there for some time. Little Camp was known as the Jewish Camp because nearly all of its about 2,000 prisoners were Jews -- Polish, French, Russian and Dutch. The camp's gatehouse is intact and the words "Jedem das Seine" ("To each his destiny") are carved into the iron gates.
Source: Reuters
Additional commentary be me is superfluous. I basically just wanted this event and these words chronicled here at Debate Politics.
Here we go with another closet lefty posing as an "Indepedent". :dohI would expect nothing less from an American or any other Western World head of state.
I am waiting for the extremist wing of the Whacko Tacko right to accuse President Obama of apologizing for the holocaust. Ater they have accused him ( falsely of course ) of apologizing for evrything else which he did not.
Here we go with another closet lefty posing as an "Indepedent". :doh
I would expect nothing less from an American or any other Western World head of state.
I am waiting for the extremist wing of the Whacko Tacko right to accuse President Obama of apologizing for the holocaust. Ater they have accused him ( falsely of course ) of apologizing for evrything else which he did not.
What does such a claim on your part have to do with what he said? I understand his point is hard to argue with, but you could have at least tried. You seem to have to default to attacking posters instead of what they say alot. It seems as if you are pretty overmatched by most of those on the left in actual debate on topics.
Source: Reuters
Additional commentary be me is superfluous. I basically just wanted this event and these words chronicled here at Debate Politics.
I have to admit I am kind of tired of the many liberals here who try and say they are moderate all the time ranting about the right. To be honest I am probably more moderate then most of them.
Anyway, this is derailing the thread.
Obama did a good thing with bashing Holocaust deniers, no doubt.
Obama did a good thing with bashing Holocaust deniers, no doubt.
Here we go with another closet lefty posing as an "Indepedent". :doh
Obama had previously visited Yad Vashem in Israel. His visit now to the site of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany is also notable. I can only commend him on these events. As the World War II generation fades away, the voices of Holocaust denial increase in number and the attacks on history are becoming much more pronounced.To be honest Tashah, I would actually appreciate reading your opinion on this event. You have a unique perspective. Given all the partisan knives that are flying regarding Obama and Israel, what does this visit and speech mean to you?
Thanks.
That's something all of us on both sides of the spectrum can agree with. Thread done.
What does such a claim on your part have to do with what he said? I understand his point is hard to argue with, but you could have at least tried. You seem to have to default to attacking posters instead of what they say alot. It seems as if you are pretty overmatched by most of those on the left in actual debate on topics.
.............I would expect nothing less from an American or any other Western World head of state.
I am waiting for the extremist wing of the Whacko Tacko right to accuse President Obama of apologizing for the holocaust. Ater they have accused him ( falsely of course ) of apologizing for evrything else which he did not.
May 2009
As if moonbats on the left don't exist.
You accept the use of "Whacko Tacko right?"
Don't you think American has a right to be resentful of comments like that?
You accept the use of "Whacko Tacko right?"
Don't you think American has a right to be resentful of comments like that?
Now that's 2 things Obama has done right. :ind:
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