President Bush is travelling in the middle east and is still in Israel.
He visited the Holocaust Museum Friday and here’s the story:
The Associated Press: Bush: US Should Have Acted on Auschwitz
"It is clear now that the U.S. knew a lot about it," Segev said. "It’s possible that bombing at least the railway to the camps may have saved the lives of the Jews of Hungary. They were the very last ones who were sent to Auschwitz at a time when everybody knew what was going on."
At the dedication of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington in 1993, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel famously asked, "Why weren’t the railways leading to Birkenau bombed by allied bombers? As long as I live I will not understand that."
At that same dedication, former President Bill Clinton said that the West has to "live forever with this knowledge … (that) far too little was done," and that "rail lines to the camps within miles of militarily significant targets were left undisturbed."
By the way (Bush-haters, stop reading here) I was in the gym at lunchtime Wednesday, and Bush was having a joint press conference with the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert. It was on all the cable news channels. Olmert went out of his way to praise Bush, "courageous leader of the free world… great friend of Israel…" repeated clearly and forcefully. It was way beyond what protocol called for.
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