Bush Says "We Should Have Bombed Auschwitz"

George W Bush admitted America failed when they didn't bomb the camps. The comment, which Mr Bush reportedly made to his Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a visit to Israel's Holocaust museum Yad Vashem, appeared to be the first acknowledgement by an American president of failure to strike Nazi death camps.

 

The Head Of Yad Vashem

According Avner Shalev, chairman of Yad Vashem, Mr Bush had tears in his eyes at two moments during an hour-long tour of the museum.
 

Roosevelt Should Have Acted

He then spoke to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's decision, clearly pondering the options before rendering an opinion of his own, Mr Shalev said.

"We should have bombed it," Mr Bush said.
 

Weight The Options

Bombers could have hit the camp in 1943, maybe killed 20,000 Jews, but saved 3,980,000 other Jews.

British Bomber Command

Sir Arthur Harris, who took orders from Churchill, and Roosevelt, led a four year campaign of civilian bombing, versus military targets.

Harris And David Irving

Irving confronted Harris about Auschwitz and Harris said: - "Mr Irving,if I were given the choice of being burned alive by British incendiaries and being killed by cyanide gas, I know which I should prefer."
 

Churchill's Writings

Winston Churchill detailed everything about WW2 in his memoirs, but he left out the gas chambers.

Eisenhower's War Memoirs

Oddly Eisenhower forgot to mention the gas chambers in his books.