US Vice President Cheney to head US delegation at Auschwitz observances

[Judi Lynn]

US Vice President Cheney to head US delegation at Auschwitz observances
AFP: 1/24/2005

WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (AFP) - Vice President Dick Cheney will lead a US delegation to Poland for observances marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkinau death camps, the White House announced Monday.

The vice president, accompanied by his wife Lynne, was to join some 2,000 survivors of the Auschwitz extermination camp on Thursday, alongside world leaders and several of the surviving Red Army soldiers who liberated the facility.

Cheney is also to take part in an event honoring survivors of the Holocaust who are now American citizens, and plans to deliver remarks to an international forum. He will also tour the Auschwitz facility, the White House said.

Cheney's agenda is to include meetings with Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka, and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, US officials said.
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http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?ID=36386

[murray hill farm]

1. Is he looking for ideas on how to..

handle the "undesirables" in the USA?

[rkc3]

2. My thoughts exactly - maybe he's going to check the "plumbing."

[IndianaGreen]

22. Yep, Cheney is looking for ideas to implement in the US

For all I know the Bush family probably owned stock in IG Farben, the manufacturers of Zyklon-B poison gas.

[silverlib]

3. He looks just like

Hemler (sp?) - to the point that makes me sick.

[flordehinojos]

4. if i were a holocaust survivor, i would spit dick cheney and his wife lynn

in the eyes. they embody so much of the fascist thought that created auschwitz and birkenau...why would i want to travel with a hypocrite who could in an instant create another auschwitz-birkenau and send so many of us to the gas chambers (or the modern version of such chambers). either, holocaust survivors are selling their own, or those who are traveling with the cheneys are mere impostors passing for holocaust survivors.

[Last Lemming]

5. They are threatening to arrest Rumsfeld

but Cheney gets a pass? Oh my goodness.

[Benhurst]

6. They should indict Cheney as well for war crimes. NT

[zann725]

24. Arrested at Auschwitz...THAT would be ironic. What goes around...

n/t

[Rush1184]

14. Who is threating to arrest Rumsfeld?

[proudbluestater]

17. Center for Constitution Rights filed suit in Germany

Suit Filed In Germany: Support investigation of Rumsfeld et al. For war crimes at Abu Ghraib:

Call on the German Federal Prosecutor to Investigate Rumsfeld
The Center for Constitutional Rights and four Iraqis who were tortured in U.S. custody filed a complaint on November 30 with the German Federal Prosecutor's Office against high ranking United States civilian and military commanders over the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison and elsewhere in Iraq.

We are asking the German prosecutor to launch an investigation because the U.S. government is unwilling to open an independent investigation into the responsibility of these officials for war crimes and the U.S. has refused to join the International Criminal Court. CCR and the Iraqi victims brought this complaint to Germany as a court of last resort. Several of the defendants are stationed in Germany.

The Pentagon and the U.S. government are taking this suit very seriously. According to the Deutsche Press Agency, Donald Rumsfeld has warned Germany that he will not attend an upcoming security conference in Munich if there is any indication of an investigation going forward, and Chief Pentagon Spokesman Larry Di Rita, calling the complaint "frivolous," said that he raised the case with the State Department: "State is engaged in this. Obviously, it's something that we're focused on and very concerned with" Please encourage the German prosecutor not to bow to U.S. pressure.

Defendants in the suit include Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, former CIA Director George Tenet, Lt. General Ricardo S. Sanchez, Major-General Walter Wojdakowski, Brig.-General Janis Karpinski, Lt.-Colonel Jerry L. Phillabaum, Colonel Thomas M. Pappas, Lt.-Colonel Stephen L. Jordan, Major-General Geoffrey Miller, and Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone.

German law allows German courts to prosecute for killing, torture, cruel and inhumane treatment, forcible transfers and sexual coercion such as occurred at Abu Ghraib. The world has seen the photographs and read the leaked "torture memos". We are doing what is necessary when other systems of justice have failed and seeking to hold officials up the chain of command responsible for the shameful abuses that occurred.

Please join our effort! The letter appears below, first in German and then in English. The German Prosecutor has discretion to decide whether to initiate an investigation. It is critical that he hear from you so he knows that people around the world support this effort.


http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/ccr/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=325

Link to sign petition and send letter to the German prosecutor

[Last Lemming]

21. Lawyers in Germany Charge Rumsfeld, Tenet With War Crimes:

http://207.44.245.159/article7396.htm

Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights:

Germany has the best single law probably in the world right now for prosecuting alleged war criminals. You can prosecute them anywhere in the world. They have universal jurisdiction and we decided to come to Germany partly on the basis of that law and partly on the basis that three of the people involved in torture are actually in Germany.

Ricardo Sanchez...his Deputy Major Picowski and Colonel Pathos,they are all at U.S. military bases in Germany, so that gives you another handle. They are actually here.
They are people who we allege were deeply involved in the abuses and torture that took place. Germany is different than the United States in the sense that you can actually bring a criminal complaint and the prosecutor has to do something with it. He has to either investigate it, go ahead and do something, indict people, or he could reject it, but in that case you can always go to a court.

snip

One is the U.S. is not doing anything to investigate the chain of command going up. The investigations are a complete fraud. There are only criminal indictments at best against low-level officials and there's nowhere you can turn to international courts; the U.S. isn't in the ICC. So this is really,

snip

Coupled with the attempts to keep Bush out of Canada right now that are being made on the grounds that their immigration law doesn't allow war criminals for people who violate laws of war into Canada. We're really, I think, trying to make I think this world right now as uncomfortable for these people in the administration as we can.

This may deserve a larger audience--

[fooj]

7. So Rummy is going to stay home and play "Secret Police" while

Dickey Poo covers for him? What cowards! Wouldn't it be awesome if they arrested Cheney? Why not? Technically, he IS Rummy's boss. So if they want to arrest him...wouldn't they arrest the man who obviously gave the OK? Everybody has a dream...

[JerseygirlCT]

8. He's going to have to lose some weight

to fit into Harry's outfit.

[bobthedrummer]

9. Gold Fillings, Auschwitz and George Bush

http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/bushies.htm

How The Bush Family Wealth Is Linked To The Jewish Holocaust
by Toby Rogers
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/ROG309A.html

The Ghost of Adolph Hitler:Nazi Influence in America
by John Stanton
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/STA310A.html

Real Nazis found a political home in the RW of The Republican Party
(The work of Russ Bellant)
Old Nazi Networks in US
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/political-science/fascism/bellant/bellant.pt1

That's why a Cheney "visits", not a Bush.
:mad::argh:

[RedCloud]

11. Thanks Bob!

We all need to be reminded of how Prescott Bush made some fortune off the deaths at Auschwitz.

Now if they had used Clinton's grandpa's penis to beat people there, it would be common knowledge.

[leftofcool]

10. Isn't this just fucking hypocritical!!!!!!!

Gads I hate Dickless Cheney!

Laft of Cool

[bunny planet]

12. How ironic is that.

[Politicub]

What a sick irony his visit is n/t

[Hobarticus]

13. Egads...this material just writes itself, doesn't it? eom

[gratuitous]

15. Cheney's Message: We will avenge you, noble captors!

I can't imagine surviving Auschwitz, then having Dick Cheney show up at a commemoration. I'd have to believe my heart would break.

[WildClarySage]

16. Cheney is going because * would be too inappropriate even for the freeps

[zann725]

25. Why didn't they just send Condi? Isn't that SOS work?

n/t

[leesa]

18. Will we acknowledge THIS year that Bush's grandpappy financed

the construction of Auschwitz?

[pfitz59]

19. Naw........

Bush* still hasn't answered questions about his failed flight physical in '72. The REICH-wingers shot CBS! Do you expect any mainstrem media to spot-light BFEE history? dream on....

[hatrack]

20. What, were Alfried Krupp's kids too busy to attend?

Or was Cheney planning on being in Zurich, partying with the Thyssen family anyway?

[Dirk39]

23. Speechless in Germany,

The victims and theirs sons and daughters don't have any kind of moral obligations. But I cannot think of anything more tasteless and insulting than this.
I try to switch back to "diplmacy". I guess even the Republicans a few years ago would not have even thought about doing something tasteless and disgusting like this.
They would have sent someone without blood on his hands, if only to follow the "etiquette".
No human beings were ever murdered like this and 60 years later fascists and massmurders like Cheney will rape them once more and abuse them for their fascist propaganda.
I just pray to God that this will not be televised.
I remember, when I was 21 in 1985, and Reagan did accompany Kohl - the german chancellor then, in saluting the german SS-terrorists, massmurders and Nazis in Bitburg. I thought this could not be surpassed. But I'm proved wrong once more.
Dear God, if you have plans for any natural deaths here on earth during the next weeks, please take a close look at this asshole. It's all up to you anyway....

Dirk