June 14, 2007
Ding Dong, The Nazi's Dead...
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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From Associated Press:
VIENNA, Austria—Former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who was elected Austrian president despite an international scandal about his secretive World War II military service for the Nazis, died Thursday, Austrian media reported. He was 88.
Waldheim, who was hospitalized in Vienna late last month with a fever-causing infection, died of heart failure with family members at his bedside, state broadcaster ORF reported.
Waldheim's tenure as U.N. chief from 1972-82 and his election as president in 1986 were overshadowed by revelations that he belonged to a German army unit that committed atrocities in the Balkans during World War II.
While Waldheim himself was not implicated in wrongdoing, his initial denial of such service—and then assertions that he and fellow Austrians were only doing their duty—led to international censure and a decision by Washington to place him on a "watch list" of persons prohibited from visiting the U.S.
That ban was never lifted.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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Posted by: Kafir at June 14, 2007 11:09 AM (HsmTD)
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at June 14, 2007 11:10 AM (8e/V4)
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Well we did help him get elected to the UN back in 1972 but that was when we still valued anti communists.
Posted by: John Ryan at June 14, 2007 02:04 PM (TcoRJ)
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The ban was a PR move. I agree that if he were a rocket scientist he would have been let in but he would have been made a citizen to. Since he was a SS thug he was simply allowed to visit un impeded.
Posted by: SeeMonk at June 14, 2007 10:36 PM (yKwZ2)
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It took long enough but HE,S DEAD JIM
Posted by: sandpiper at June 15, 2007 12:53 AM (g1M1/)
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