Poland protests after D-Day celebrations snub

polskieradio.pl ^ | 01.06.2009

[Thunder90]

I bet it has something to do with not pissing off the Russians....

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

I think is is more ignorance on the part of many of today's “leaders.” On the other hand it could be a lack of concern by today's “leaders” regarding the reality of the commemoration and their desire to have a “Photo OP!”

[Tarpon]

ZERO apology tour uninvitee.

[Tarpon]

No it’s probably about the holocast, where little know to most as many as 5 million Polish people were tossed in the ovens.

Obama doesn’t want the whole Jewish issue to come up at his Muslim apology tour.

I hear he going to apologize for Churchill’s decision to bomb Dresden this time out.

[NonValueAdded]

President Lech Kaczynski is in good company but I guess this is not the change most were hoping for.

[colorado tanker]

Asked to comment on the issue, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that a lack of invitation for the Polish president is “regrettable”, adding that relations between Polish and French presidents have not been too good since President Kaczynski refused to sign the Lisbon Treaty following the Irish referendum last year.

How incredibly contemptible, to ignore, say, the sacrifice of the Polish paratroopers, just to name a few, for a petty political point???

[Squawk 8888]

The French side says that it regards the celebrations of battles in what was in the American sector of the war as primarily a "Franco-American affair"

The French officials are woefully ignorant of history. US troops were a minority in the "American Sector"; the British contingent was just as large and the Canadians sent half as many as the Americans did on D-Day.

[Thunder90]

If I remember correctly, Obama will be meeting with the Russian president and PM/Premier Putin.

[LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot]

Is BHO going to Normandy on June 6?

If so he'll probably find some way to apologize to the former Axis powers for the US military taking Europe back from them.

[CaptRon]

The French seem to be messing this up badly.

[exit82]

The Poles and the Queen should crash the festivities by showing up in a landing craft.

[HighlyOpinionated]

The Poles and the Queen should crash the festivities by showing up in a landing craft.

How about having an airplane pulling a message behind it?

Someone with photo shop and a good "bumper sticker" phrase, please post it on this thread.

[crazydad]

Well Dresden is still a very controversial decision. It will always be one.. Did we really have to fire bomb that city? The war was over at that point. Dresden was terror bombing at a massive level. OK ducking. Flame away.

[dfwgator]

Poles did a lot more to defeat the Nazis than the French ever did.

[dfwgator]

Goebbels asked for “Total War” and he got it!!!

[21twelve]

Awhile back I heard that in his speech Obama will apologize to France for invading their country during WW II. ;)

[Tarpon]

No flames -- Your points are well taken, but no one could be sure ... and the NAZIs were tossing everyone they could find into the ovens ... So you want to call it? Churchill was adamant. London was reduced to rubble also. The war had to end, now.

The best course of action was decided to be to bomb the population, FDR acquiesced to Churchill's desire, so they did. No apologies necessary, none desired.

The exact same arguments could be made about nuking Japan. Was it necessary? In both cases, the outcomes were the same, the wars were ended.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Later writing shows it was nothing of the sort. Dresden was a major German transportation hub in the last days of the war and contained nearly 200 military installations and factories.

Also, the United States didn’t fire-bomb Dresden. The British did, however.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Amended: not “nothing of the sort” as there were of course civilian casualties. Very careless use of phrase for which I apologize. However, Dresden was definitely a military target.