"The Bushes and Hitler's Appeasement" by Robert Parry is now up on Al-Jazeera's website

[Bozita]

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/newsfull.php?newid=121332

The Bushes and Hitler's appeasement
22/05/2008 11:30:00 PM GMT

The evidence from dusty archives suggests that the Bush family went way beyond appeasement of Adolf Hitler to aiding and abetting the Nazis.

By Robert Parry

The irony of George W. Bush going before the Knesset and mocking the late Sen. William Borah for expressing surprise at Adolf Hitler’s 1939 invasion of Poland is that Bush’s own family played a much bigger role assisting the Nazis.

If Borah, an isolationist Republican from Idaho, sounded naïve saying “Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided,” then what should be said about Bush’s grandfather and other members of his family providing banking and industrial assistance to the Nazis as they built their war machine in the 1930s?

The archival evidence is now clear that Prescott Bush, the president’s grandfather, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from and collaborated with key financial backers of Nazi Germany.

That business relationship continued after Hitler invaded Poland in 1939 and even after Germany declared war on the United States following Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. It stopped only when the U.S. government seized assets of Bush-connected companies in late 1942 under the “Trading with the Enemy Act.”

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[eleny]

1. A family of war profiteers

[jedr]

2. In repub' land; making money trumps all;

All the flag waving is rhetoric so you can make money.

[Kansas Wyatt]

3. Great! Now the Jack-Off Deluxe Squad (freepturds & their kind)

Will use this as a reason to discredit the Bush Family history of treasonous acts, because it was on Al-Jazeera's website.

[Bozita]

4. It was up on Consortium News on the 18th. It's just up now (22nd) on Al Jazeera

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/051808.html

[Kansas Wyatt]

6. Just saying the dumbasses will use it as an excuse to discredit it....

And parrot it as propaganda from the enemy over and over.

I personally believe all of the Bush Family criminal activity should have been common knowledge in every American household, before Poppy ever even got a chance to play both sides and make a fortune off both.

[jwirr]

7. No matter where it is shown you cannot discredit what is in plain

sight in the National Archives for anyone to see. Unlike many pug statements this one has evidence.

[malaise]

5. Bush will rue the day he started the appeaser bullshit

Parry nails it as usual