Speaking of the Holocaust, why would Bush have asked such an odd question at Auschwitz?

[Bluebear]

And why would Fleischer "not remember" the answer? (Auschwitz tour, 2003)


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....ARI FLEISCHER: Oh, that probably extended some 30, 40 feet behind glass, and you just see hair. Women's hair. The guide talked about in the next room that Auschwitz was also a site of plunder because as the Jews were rounded up and sent there, they brought their belongings with them so they had their suitcases. They didn't know they were going to their death, so they carried their life's possessions with them, which was then quickly plundered, the guide explained.

The President saw the Jewish prayer shawls that were hanging. And then another deeply moving part, he saw artificial limbs, actual artificial limbs, prosthesis, legs that were there and which she explained to the President, even these were plundered after people were killed, and then used back in Germany.

The President would say things such as "Powerful." I just wrote down as I listened to him -- "powerful." When he saw the suitcases, he said, "So sad." And then at one point when he went by another display where there were teeny little shoes, the President looked at it and said, "All the little baby shoes." He told the guide, "You've done a good job recording history."

The President talked about the current context of it, how many people come each year. He asked, where do they come from. He asked, "Do people challenge the accuracy of what you present?" And one cell --

Q: And what did the guide say?

MR. FLEISCHER: She explained where people come from. They come from all over, she said. A lot come from Poland, from the United States, from Israel, from Germany.

Q: Did she answer his question, do people challenge --

MR. FLEISCHER: I didn't get it. If she did, I don't remember, I didn't write it down.

http://www.state.gov/p/eur/rls/rm/2003/21131.htm

[fenriswolf]

1. wonder if bush even knows

that his grandaddy backed the nazi regime. And tried to mirror it in the US.

[blondeatlast]

2. No surprise he'd be very interested in learning about revisionist history.

The tricky part is revising it before it's written.

[Javaman]

3. Because he's* a self serving prick.

with nazi ties via his gramps who was charged with trading with the enemy.

He* merely tolerates us. we are the great unwashed to him*, here to serve as props for his great equis complex wanna be ruler of the world.

plus he has anger management issues.

[Ian David]

4. Bush can't deny The Holocaust. His grandfather made too much money supporting it.

If not for The Holocaust, Bush would be working three minimum-wage jobs just to make enough money to talk to his psychiatrist about his irrational fear of horses.