How does GW know so much about Nazis?

"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.

Guardian UK

Nor has the press said anything about Prescott Bush's involvement in an attempted coup of the US in 1933.



George and the Nazis

Updated On: 5/16/08 at 02:57 PM

... umm

He was a pair of lederhosen in his past life. (?)

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Well 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.

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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.