Schwarzenegger’s Nazi problem (Support of Kurt Waldheim)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.msnbc.com/news/949666.asp?0cv=CB20

Here’s a question Jay Leno forgot to ask Arnold Schwarzenegger when he announced his candidacy for governor of California on last night’s “Tonight Show”: “Will you renounce your support for Kurt Waldheim?”

A LITTLE REFRESHER course may be in order. Kurt Waldheim, a widely esteemed former secretary general of the United Nations, was running for president of Austria in March 1986 when it came to light that he had participated in Nazi atrocities during World War II. Waldheim had always maintained that he had served in the Wehrmacht only briefly and that after being wounded early in the war, he had returned to Vienna to attend law school.

In fact, Waldheim had resumed military service after recuperating from his injury and had been an intelligence officer in Germany’s Army Group E when it committed mass murder in the Kozara region of western Bosnia. (Waldheim’s name appears on the Wehrmacht’s “honor list” of those responsible for the atrocity.) In 1944, Waldheim had reviewed and approved a packet of anti-Semitic propaganda leaflets to be dropped behind Russian lines, one of which ended, “enough of the Jewish war, kill the Jews, come over.”

Waldheim didn’t attend, but he sent a gift — a statue of Arnold, in lederhosen, bearing off Maria, who wore a dirndl. Admiring it, Schwarzenegger offered a tribute that stunned the assemblage into shocked silence (this is reported in Arnold: The Unauthorized Biography, by Wendy Leigh):

My friends don’t want me to mention Kurt’s name, because of all the recent Nazi stuff and the U.N. controversy, but I love him and Maria does too, and so thank you, Kurt.

Schwarzenegger’s name remained on Waldheim’s campaign posters.

[rudeboy666]

1. ....he also smoked pot in PUMPING IRON!

Beyond ambiguities, the Dems need something stronger to defeat the Terminator.

'Arnold the Nazi' is a sign of desperation.

Not to mention that the people of California would rally(no pun intended) beind him if they felt that Arnold was being smeared.

[IndianaGreen]

3. Arnold was born after his father's death

I think some of our Democratic friends are going through a bit of Freepermania with Arnold. They should worry more about that getting Bustamante in!

[IndianaGreen]

2. The US supported Kurt Waldheim

and that includes President Jimmy Carter.

How did Waldheim escape closer scrutiny after WWII? The US helped a lot of former Nazis because they were anti-communists. Remember the German rocket scientist we brought to America to build rockets for us? Does the name Von Braun ring a bell?

Everyone knew at the time that Waldheim was in debt to the US, but we didn't know why until a foto was published of Waldheim in his SS uniform.

Waldheim was never charged with war crimes, and Israel never went after him.

Since we must consider the total record, here it is:

http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/News/1971/December/22-Kurt_Waldheim.asp

[rudeboy666]

6. ........

Even though Arnold is a Republican(or RINO in freeper language), he appears to be a social liberal(he is a libertine compared to the likes of Lundgren and Dornan). Thus, he actually has a good chance of winning California.

However(as many observers have pointed out), he is totally inexperienced in the field of government.

Considering the budget crisis that befalls California, I'm pretty sure that a good Dem candidate could defeat the Terminator on this issue.

[umcwb]

4. Locking - not LBN

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[PartyPooper]

5. Arnold's alleged Nazi connections won't fly...especially if Bush's won't!

It seems that George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a Nazi war criminal / collaborator. But, nobody cares! If the president of the United States has a grandfather who was ordered to cease and desist doing business with the Nazis during WWII by Franklin D. Roosevelt-So what if he was making a profit?!?...who cares? The American people couldn't care less!

After all, that's ancient history!

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