How does GW know so much about Nazis?
How does GW know so much about Nazis?
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How does GW know so much about Nazis? #1
Posted: 5/16/08 at 10:36am
"In a speech to Israel's Knesset marking the 60th anniversary of that country's independence, Bush said, "Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along."
"We have heard this foolish delusion before," Bush said. "As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.""
Strong words there, George. But while one senator might have been wishing we could have talked to Hitler, another Senator went MUCH further, helping to bankroll Hitler's rise to power and doing business with Nazi Germany even after the US declared war on the country in 1941. Who was this senator? None other than Prescott Bush, the president's grandfather.
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re: How does GW know so much about Nazis? #2
Posted: 5/16/08 at 2:55pmOne of the great disappointments and frustrations of my life is that during the 12 years of the Bush administrations the American media never reported on the Nazi connections of Prescott Bush.
re: How does GW know so much about Nazis? #2
Posted: 5/16/08 at 2:57pm
Nor has the press said anything about Prescott Bush's involvement in an attempted coup of the US in 1933.
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Updated On: 5/16/08 at 02:57 PM
re: How does GW know so much about Nazis? #3
Posted: 5/16/08 at 3:17pmI am in no way a supporter of Bush or the Bush administration, but we can't just prosecute somebody for the mistakes of their parents or much less their grandparents.
Just look at the Kennedy family. There are plenty of interesting stories and controversies surrounding different members of the Kennedy's but was John F.Kennedy's fairly successful term ever dampened for it?
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re: How does GW know so much about Nazis? #4
Posted: 5/16/08 at 3:21pm
... umm
He was a pair of lederhosen in his past life. (?)
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re: How does GW know so much about Nazis? #5
Posted: 5/16/08 at 3:23pm
"I am in no way a supporter of Bush or the Bush administration, but we can't just prosecute somebody for the mistakes of their parents or much less their grandparents."
No one wants to prosecute him. We want to persecute him.
re: How does GW know so much about Nazis? #6
Posted: 5/16/08 at 3:27pmWell so do I. I just think that GW's own mistakes are more than enough to warrant a bit of... kharmic intervention without those of grandpa Bush.
re: How does GW know so much about Nazis? #7
Posted: 5/16/08 at 3:33pmShhhhhh....for your own safety. Seriously.
re: How does GW know so much about Nazis? #8
Posted: 5/16/08 at 3:33pm
For the record,
I find it a bit offensive for him to be playing the Hitler card, in the Israeli Knesset, when his own family profited from deals with the Nazis.
That wealth is directly related to his father's and his, position as POTUS.
So, while Shrub is not responsible for the actions of his grandfather, he should be a bit sensitive to his own family's personal history of collaborating financially with the Nazi Regime before casting stones.
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re: How does GW know so much about Nazis? #9
Posted: 5/16/08 at 3:59pm
Well, as Bart Simpson would say "The Ironing is delicious."
I'm not saying George is responsible in any way (legally or morally) for his Grandfathers actions but you must admit that using this Nazi analogy (in Isreal) to smear his political oponents while his own GRANDFATHER made millions off the company that manufactured the ovens at Auschwitz takes, as the chosen people say, CHUTZPAH.
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