Bush: U.S. should have acted at Auschwitz
JERUSALEM ‚Äö√Ñ√Æ A teary-eyed President Bush stopped in front of an aerial photo of Auschwitz on Friday at Israel’s Holocaust memorial and said the U.S. should have sent bombers to prevent the extermination of Jews there. Yad Vashem’s chairman, Avner Shalev, quoted Bush as saying the U.S. should have “bombed it.” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Bush referred to the train tracks leading to Auschwitz, not the camp itself, where between 1.1 million and 1.5 million people were killed by Nazi Germany.
OK, so some folks might cut Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader © some slack. This sort of ignorance has been on display, after all, for the past years, and if you believe that past is prologue, there’s more to come. Speaking for myself, I’m tired of this sorry excuse for a President making the country I love into a laughing stock in the international community. Regardless of what he may have meant, and I imagine that his comment was heartfelt, after seven years he has to know that his every utterance will be analyzed and parsed for meaning. An intelligent statesman speaks as if he understands that his words may take on meanings he never imagined. Then again, you’ll never see “intelligent statesman” and “George W. Bush” used in the same sentence (Uh…wait…I just did exactly that, didnt’ I?) This comment displays nothing if not a seventh-grade understanding of which he was speaking.
Uh…hello?? Anybody home? If the US had bombed Auschwitz, don’t you think it would have hurt or killed large numbers of the Jewish prisoner population? Without a doubt, the Allies could have and should have done more to stop the mass extermination. Allied governments knew what was happening and stood idly by while six million Jews were murdered simply for who they were. I understand the sentiment the The Worst President EVER was probably trying to express. In typically intellectually-challenged fashion, though, it comes out sounding exceedingly and disturbingly ignorant and clueless.
Yes, indeed…it would appear that we have EXACTLY the quality of leadership we deserve, eh?
