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From the British Daily Telegraph:
(for the use of my Australian friends, who have a wholly different newspaper by the same name)
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5096803/Barack-Obama-rejects-Normandy-trip-to-avoid-offending-Germany.html)
White House officials travelled to France at the start of March to discuss a visit by Mr Obama to Omaha Beach, the site of the American Cemetery, established in 1944 just after D-Day and where 9,387 American personnel are buried. Among them is Theodore Roosevelt Jr the eldest son of the 26th US President.
French officials and senior American military officers walked with White House staff through the cemetery discussing how the two presidents might follow the same route. But even before their trip, the White House had decided that Mr Obama would not travel there this week.
"It wasn't going to happen," said an American official in Washington. "We went through the motions to placate President Sarkozy but giving special treatment to France was not on our agenda.
"During this trip, we wanted to maintain a balance between the British, German and France". A White House spokesman in London declined to comment. Last month, White House officials briefed that a Normandy visit had been considered but it had not been logistically possible.
This is so far beyond belief, so profoundly repulsive, immoral and ignorant on so many levels, that even to unbundle its evils and follies would take more time than it is worth. Just consider its two main assumptions: that a President of the United States of America would visit the beaches of Normandy to do a favour to the current governments - let alone the states and peoples - of Britain and France; and that Germany might be offended by references to German defeats in war, let alone Nazism.
If this report is true, then every bad thing that the conservative blogosphere said of President Obama is also true. And he is surrounded by people as bad as he.
(for the use of my Australian friends, who have a wholly different newspaper by the same name)
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5096803/Barack-Obama-rejects-Normandy-trip-to-avoid-offending-Germany.html)
White House officials travelled to France at the start of March to discuss a visit by Mr Obama to Omaha Beach, the site of the American Cemetery, established in 1944 just after D-Day and where 9,387 American personnel are buried. Among them is Theodore Roosevelt Jr the eldest son of the 26th US President.
French officials and senior American military officers walked with White House staff through the cemetery discussing how the two presidents might follow the same route. But even before their trip, the White House had decided that Mr Obama would not travel there this week.
"It wasn't going to happen," said an American official in Washington. "We went through the motions to placate President Sarkozy but giving special treatment to France was not on our agenda.
"During this trip, we wanted to maintain a balance between the British, German and France". A White House spokesman in London declined to comment. Last month, White House officials briefed that a Normandy visit had been considered but it had not been logistically possible.
This is so far beyond belief, so profoundly repulsive, immoral and ignorant on so many levels, that even to unbundle its evils and follies would take more time than it is worth. Just consider its two main assumptions: that a President of the United States of America would visit the beaches of Normandy to do a favour to the current governments - let alone the states and peoples - of Britain and France; and that Germany might be offended by references to German defeats in war, let alone Nazism.
If this report is true, then every bad thing that the conservative blogosphere said of President Obama is also true. And he is surrounded by people as bad as he.
