Historians dispute Schwarzenegger's convention comments

[TryingToWarnYou]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/03/schwarzenegger.ap/index.html

Ooops, seems as if Gropenfurher is telling lies already....

VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Austrian historians are challenging California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for telling the Republican National Convention that he saw Soviet tanks in his homeland as a child and that he left a "Socialist" country when he moved away in 1968.

Recalling that the Soviets once occupied part of Austria in the aftermath of World War II, Schwarzenegger told the convention on Tuesday: "I saw tanks in the streets. I saw communism with my own eyes."

Historians, however, are questioning Schwarzenegger's version of postwar history -- if not his enduring popularity among Austrians who admire him for rising from a penniless immigrant to the highest official in America's most populous state.

"It's a fact -- as a child he could not have seen a Soviet tank in Styria," the southeastern province where Schwarzenegger was born and raised, historian Stefan Karner told the Vienna newspaper Kurier.

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[loathesomeshrub]

1. Oh yeah, its ok when a rebublican has a fuzzy or incorrect memory...

[FlaIndie]

2. someone mentioned also

that there were no TV debates in '68, which Ahnold said swayed hm to the Reprobes.

[Voltaire99]

3. Der Historflubbenfuhrer!

Vat he meant to say vas he saw tanktops in der streets. And it made him vant to be a veightlifter, like Richard Nixon.

[Moderator]

4. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=798992