Poles and Polish-Americans expressed outrage today at President Obama’s reference earlier to “a Polish death camp” — as opposed to a Nazi death camp in German-occupied Poland.
“The White House will apologize for this outrageous error,” Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski tweeted. Sikorski said that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk “will make a statement in the morning. It’s a pity that this important ceremony was upstaged by ignorance and incompetence.”
The president had been trying to honor a famous Pole, awarding a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jan Karski, a resistance fighter who sneaked behind enemy lines to bear witness to the atrocities being committed against Jews. President Obama referred to him being smuggled “into the Warsaw ghetto and a Polish death camp to see for himself.”
Sikorski also tonight tweeted a link to an Economist story noting that “few things annoy Poles more than being blamed for the crimes committed by the Nazi occupiers of their homeland. For many years, Polish media, diplomats and politicians have tried to persuade outsiders to stop using the phrase ‘Polish death camps’ as a shorthand description of Auschwitz and other exemplars of Nazi brutality and mass murder. Unfortunately this seems to have escaped BaracK Obama’s staff seem not to have noticed this.”
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After the whole interceptor missile deal, this was no mistake.
ReplyDeleteThis is exactly how liberals do business. Just like sniping little women.
Cut this retard a little slack Yall,hell he doesnt even know where he was born! now that he`s campaigning again he`ll probably be hunting that 58th state again.I prefer to think of him as the carnival barker rather than a clown ,as he fill`s the bill as the one standing in the street talking shit to get the sucker`s to come in!.
ReplyDeleteJust like sniping little women.
ReplyDeleteThat's right on.
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he fill`s the bill as the one standing in the street talking shit to get the sucker`s to come in!.
As is that!:)
Toaster beat me to it, but...
ReplyDeleteAfter selling them out on the missile-defense deal -- and announcing the double cross ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE JOINT NAZI/SOVIET INVASION -- how can anyone be surprised?!
announcing the double cross ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE JOINT NAZI/SOVIET INVASION -- how can anyone be surprised?!
ReplyDeleteThey probably have something planned for every date on the calender