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American Leaders' International 'Oops' Moments

intro: President Obama has offended Poland. During Tuesday's Medal of Freedom Ceremony, Obama referred to the concentration camps run by Nazis in Poland during World War II as "Polish death camps," a term the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday showed "ignorance, lack of knowledge and ill will." Calling them "Polish death camps," Tusk said, implied that Poland was responsible and that "there had been no Nazis, no German responsibility, no Hitler." While the administration...Full Story
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