so, it's ALL poland's fault

the war, the 'alleged'* holocaust, barack obama and i guess me too. there are droves of people who listen to the buchanans and the becks and the hannitys and the limbaughs and the coulters and the o'reillys. they not only listen, they BELIEVE AND ADMIRE. the world is indeed a very scary place. i'm almost speechless (but not quite)

(*not alleged to ME mind you. alleged to peeps like buchanan)

Pat Buchanan: Hitler didn’t want war

Political columnist Pat Buchanan is coming under fire for a column arguing that Adolf Hitler didn’t want to launch a European war, and that World War II could have been avoided if Poland had agreed to hand over the city of Gdansk to Germany.

He even appears to have implied that the Holocaust wouldn’t have happened if the Allied powers hadn’t guaranteed Poland’s security.

In his column published Monday by Creators Syndicate, Buchanan wrote:

The German-Polish war [sic] had come out of a quarrel over a town the size of Ocean City, Md., in summer. Danzig, 95 percent German, had been severed from Germany at Versailles in violation of Woodrow Wilson’s principle of self-determination. Even British leaders thought Danzig should be returned.

Why did Warsaw not negotiate with Berlin, which was hinting at an offer of compensatory territory in Slovakia? Because the Poles had a war guarantee from Britain that, should Germany attack, Britain and her empire would come to Poland’s rescue......

By Daniel Tencer