President/General Eisenhower could school Obama on investigating Bush and his minions for torture
In Obama’s speech at the Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony, he said:
The story goes that when the Americans marched in, they discovered the starving survivors and the piles of dead bodies. And General Eisenhower made a decision. He ordered Germans from the nearby town to tour the camp, so they could see what had been done in their name. And he ordered American troops to tour the camp, so they could see the evil they were fighting against. Then he invited congressmen and journalists to bear witness. And he ordered that photographs and films be made. Some of us have seen those same images, whether in the Holocaust Museum or when I visited Yad Vashem, and they never leave you. Eisenhower said that he wanted “to be in a position to give firsthand evidence of these things, if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to propaganda.”
Peterr at FireDogLake says:
In marked contrast to Obama’s remarks on Gitmo interrogations earlier this week, Ike said in essence, “Worries about polarization be damned. Here’s the evidence of what happened. If you think this is invented, if you think this is merely political spin, if you think this is made up for partisan advantage, let’s look at the evidence.”
My dad was one of the guys in the US Army Rainbow Division that walked into a concentration camp. As a young man from a small town in the Midwest, it DEEPLY disturbed him, he had nightmares for years.
If we, as a country, stomach the torture done in our name, without demanding full investigation and criminal charges against the guilty, then we aren’t the America of our Founding Fathers
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