SORRY FOR WHAT BARRY? MAYBE HE’D DO BETTER FORCING THE BANKERS THAT FUNDED THE WAR TO SPILL THE BEANS!
Socialist Obama to say sorry to Nazi Socialist…..what a guy!
Friday, May 22, 2009
OBAMA TO APOLOGIZE TO GERMANY FOR WWII?
The latest inconceivable Obamaction is yet another unbecoming apology in Europe, this time in Germany for WWII. John Rosenthal suggests, “As bizarre as it may seem, President Obama’s impending trip to Dresden suggests that German revisionists have a friend in the White House“.
And American Thinker adds, “the message Obama intends to send by visiting both sites is clear; while the Germans did bad things during World War II, they were also victims of Allied atrocities.”
(Over at Free Republic)
The latest German reports suggest Obama’s principal German destination will be Dresden. According to an article in the local paper Die Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, representatives of the German and American governments met in Dresden last Wednesday to discuss preparations for the visit. An American security detail is reported to have already scoped out sites in the city: presumably for a public speech.
The symbolic significance of a visit to Dresden by the American president — especially one undertaken in connection with a D-Day commemoration in France — may be missed by some Americans, but it is absolutely unmistakable for the German public. For Germans, Dresden is the symbol bar none of German suffering at the hands of the Allies. The city was heavily bombed by British and American air forces in February 1945, toward the end of the war. According to the most recent estimates of professional historians, anywhere from 18,000 to at most 25,000 persons died in the attacks. These numbers come from a historical commission established by the city of Dresden itself. But far higher numbers — ranging into the hundreds of thousands — have long circulated in Germany and beyond. The bombing of Dresden is commonly described as a “war crime” in German discussions.
Alleged crimes committed by the Allies against Germans and Germany have indeed become a sort of German literary obsession in recent years, with numerous books being devoted to the subject. The taste of the German public for the theme was made particularly clear by the enormous success of author Jörg Friedrich’s 2002 volume The Fire [Der Brand], which is about the Allied bombardment of Germany. The book’s success was so great that Friedrich and his publisher quickly followed up with a picture book on the same topic titled Scenes of the Fire: How the Bombing Looked.
Obama should spend the day tending to the graves of our brave and glorious dead, who sacrificed their lives so that Europe could live on to descend into a pathetic, amoral collectivism. Europe owes us an apology for squandering our blood and treasure on a morally bankrupt transnational gobbledy goop EU wallowing in pathetic collectivism.
Time for a history lesson. What better day to teach the foreign exchange student in the White House a lesson about American exceptionalism, heroism, and greatness?
America’s European Arrogance (hat tip Joan S)
1. The American Cemetery at Aisne-Marne, France. A total of 2,289 of our military dead. We apologize.
2. The American Cemetery at Ardennes, Belgium. A total of 5,329 of our dead. We are so ashamed of our arrogance.
3. The American Cemetery at Brittany, France. A total of 4,410 of our military dead. Excuse us.
4. Brookwood, England American Cemetery. A total of 4,680 of our dead. We are such an evil country.
5. Cambridge, England. 3,812 of our military dead. What on earth were we thinking?
6. Epinal, France American Cemetery. A total of 5,525 of our military dead. Please forgive us.
7. Flanders Field, Belgium. A total of 3,680 of our military. We are so sorry.
8. Florence, Italy. A total of 4,402 of our military dead. We are a bully nation.
9. Henri-Chapelle, Belgium. A total of 7,992 of our military dead. They deserved what they got.
10. Lorraine, France. A total of 10,489 of our military dead. FDR and Truman were lying war criminals.
11. Luxembourg, Luxembourg. A total of 5,076 of our military dead. Arrogant oppression, pure and simple.
12. Meuse-Argonne. A total of 1,4246 of our military dead. Just think of how many civilians they killed.
13. Netherlands, Netherlands. A total of 8,301 of our military dead. They were murderers.
14. Normandy, France. A total of 9,387 of our military dead. Baby killers, one and all.
15. Oise-Aisne, France. A total of 6,012 of our military dead. They were torturers, too.
16. Rhone, France. A total of 8,61 of our military dead. Remorseless killers doing the bidding of an evil nation.
17. Sicily, Italy. A total of 7,861 of our military dead. What can America ever do to redeem itself?
18. Somme, France. A total of 1,844 of our military dead. Arrogant war-mongers of an arrogant nation.
19. St. Mihiel, France. A total of 4,153 of our military dead. War criminals.
20. Suresnes, France. A total of 1,541 of our military dead. Oh, God in heaven, please forgive us for being such an arrogant country.
The total number of Americans buried at the cemeteries above is 104,366 — a mere fraction of those who died liberating Europe — and yet an American president who confuses arrogance with leadership feels the need to apologize in Europe for the country he obviously holds in contempt. (hat tip JoanS)
It is virtually unthinkable that Obama could give a speech in Dresden and not allude to the bombing of the city. Most of the city’s historical monuments — which Obama’s advance team were apparently inspecting — were severely damaged or destroyed in the bombing and had to be rebuilt. Moreover, for Obama to visit both Dresden and Buchenwald would suggest precisely the sort of outrageous parallels that have become commonplace in Germany at least since the publication of Friedrich’s The Fire.
(As so happens, although tens of thousands of persons died there, Buchenwald was not one of the camps specifically devoted to the extermination of Jews. But far be it from Obama to know that. When, during the election campaign, he first referred to his Uncle Charlie’s WWII exploits, he said that his uncle had helped to liberate “Auschwitz.” Moreover, Charlie Payne did not really participate in the liberation of Buchenwald either, but rather in that of Ohrdruf: a lesser-known, affiliated camp some sixty kilometers away.)
Europe traded the lives of 6 million Jews for 55 million Muslims. Good luck with that.
And Ovamit is apologizing.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/05/obama-to-apologize-to-germany-for-wwii.html
GOD-BLESS ALL THOSE THAT GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR OUR FREEDOMS- SHAME ON US ALL– WE ARE GIVING IT AWAY WITH SUCH ABANDON—-FOR WHAT?
First of all Dresden is not an usual place for Presidents when meeting in Germany. Putin was there more than ten times, the Queen was and Annan was.
The overwhelming majority of the population has no remarkable bad feeling about the bombing against anybody, which was by the way mainly done by England and not America, as long reports stick to the facts which are:
Stalin never requested it.
The goal was to destroy German fanatism of believers in the end-victory in the civil population, the militaric facilities concentrated in the north of the city were not even hit at all.
Europes largest camera plants in Dresden had no longer a militaric meaning in those late weeks of the war. Dresden was not bombed away, only the downtown was totally destroyed, it still has the most villas in Germany and together with Munich the most academic population, relatively the most high-tech workers in Germany and the destroyed citycenter was largely rebuilt 1945-2009. It’s also important for us that you are aware that Saxons drink very much more beer per head than Bavarians and we have at least the same amount of castles, 300 around Dresden alone, we grow wine and have climbing rocks. When you accept this or even praise our beer you can write what you want.
After the very unlucky defeat in World War I and influenced by only newspapers and radio most people were go-with Nazis also in Dresden, who voted Hitler into power, Dresden even had more NSDAP party members than the average, but those were not necessarily bad people in their heart. In hindsight one must say the bombings in German cities did not destroy fanatism as fast as wanted. For long times there were also rumours that Dresden was bombed to prevent Stalin having Germany’s pearl in his influence area.
As Dresden is in some aspects a small but world city it is very clear that all kinds of neo-nazis from all countries of Europe use it as symbol, but this is strongly disagreed by the population. Right-wing parties have some success in the near of Dresden, but not within the city.
The use of the term Right Wing parties always mystifies me?
Now even Geert Wilders is labeled Right Wing as he’s done so very good in the elections there, well, as far has he’s allowed in Holland.
With right-wing I mean exactly the today’s National Democratic Party of Germany, not conservative ones. Politically left people here would call Geert Wilders a right-winger, I as liberally thinking person not. In our terms right-wing means extremely right wing including historic Nazi structures of Hitler’s NSDAP party.
But Hitler was a Socialist!
How come, when Hitler used the 1933 Enabling act, that was Fascist, yet when Tony Blair brought into law the exact same Enabling bill, nothing was said or done, he certainly wasn’t called Fascist?
Seems to me, that anyone disagreeing with the lefts drumbeat, is painted as being a Nazi, Fascist or both, especially those that dare to say, “It’s what my eyes see and ears hear, no i won’t bow to your truths, i have my own”
Thats what is happening, thats not freedom, that is Fascism wrapped in pretty paper for now.