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Old 05-28-2008
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Re: Obama: My uncle liberated … Auschwitz?

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Originally Posted by ThorHammer View Post
Sure enough, back in 2002, he made (roughly) the same claim. Odd that he wouldn't have figured this out back then.

Barack Obama's Iraq Speech - Wikisource
Hold it. Did you actually read what your quoting, because your conclusion does not match.

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My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton’s army. He saw the dead and dying across the fields of Europe; he heard the stories of fellow troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka. He fought in the name of a larger freedom, part of that arsenal of democracy that triumphed over evil, and he did not fight in vain.
Auschwitz was certainly mentioned, but it was in regard to stories of other soldiers of experiences that his grandfather heard........ it is not a claim that his grandfather was the one who was there participating.

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