Reply #8: Vice President Cheney Remembers Holocaust

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Guardian
Thursday January 27, 2005 4:01 PM

By DEB RIECHMANN

Associated Press Writer

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) - Joining in commemoration of the Holocaust, Vice President Dick Cheney declared Thursday that the mass murder that went unanswered until Nazi death camps were liberated 60 years ago is a reminder that evil must be faced down in the world today.

``The story of the camps remind us that evil is real and must be called by its name and must be confronted,'' Cheney said at a forum in Krakow, where he spoke before attending an anniversary program at the concentration camps here. ``We are reminded that anti-Semitism may begin with words but rarely stops with words and the message of intolerance and hatred must be opposed before it turns into acts of horror.''

While he didn't draw the comparison directly, the subtext of Cheney's message melded with the theme of President Bush's Inauguration Day speech about freedom versus tyranny as well as one of his previous State of the Union addresses when he called Iraq, North Korea and Iran the ``axis of evil.''

Within site of the ruins of crematoria, Cheney listened as dignitaries, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, and religious leaders from all faiths spoke solemnly about the massive deaths at Auschwitz and Birkenau, the larger of the two camps.

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