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This news knocked me back a few feet....
French railroad wants U.S. contracts; Apology for deporting Jews is English only | cleveland.com
WTF are we even considering awarding such a contract to a company that is not in the US? Nevermind why we'd ever consider hiring on Nazi collaborators.....Jesus H. Christ, it's as if every American politican with a contract thinks to look anywhere on Planet Earth for a builder these days except for within our own borders.
Don't we still build trains here?
PARIS France's state-run railroad has for the first time expressed "sorrow and regret" for its role in the deportation of Jews during World War II. But the mea culpa is confined to its English language Web site and part of a bid to secure a lucrative U.S. rail contract.
The railroad, known as the SNCF, won an appeal in 2007 of a French lawsuit over its role in the Nazi deportation, and now is trying to convince Floridians of its good faith.
The SNCF is bidding on a $2.6 billion high-speed rail project that would connect Tampa and Orlando, but has run into resistance from Holocaust survivors there. The project would be the first high-speed tracks in the United States.
SNCF Chairman Guillaume Pepy said in a statement posted Nov. 4 on an English-language Web site that the railroad "wants to convey its profound sorrow and regret for the consequences of its acts" during World War II, when France's Vichy government collaborated with the occupying Nazis.
The statement concedes that the SNCF's equipment and staff were used to haul 76,000 French and other European Jews to Germany, where they were sent on to death camps. Fewer than 3,000 returned alive.
French railroad wants U.S. contracts; Apology for deporting Jews is English only | cleveland.com
WTF are we even considering awarding such a contract to a company that is not in the US? Nevermind why we'd ever consider hiring on Nazi collaborators.....Jesus H. Christ, it's as if every American politican with a contract thinks to look anywhere on Planet Earth for a builder these days except for within our own borders.
Don't we still build trains here?