[CitizensTruth] Larisa: Bush family's Nazi ties and 'appeasement'

[Daniel Stafford]

Wow. Ya think?


http://www.atlargely.com/2008/05/all-the-preside.html


      All the President's Nazis (real and imagined): An Open Letter to Bush

(cross-posted at Huffington Post 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/all-the-presidents-nazis_b_102022.html>)

Dear Mr. Bush,

Your speech on the Knesset floor today was not only a disgrace; it was 
nothing short of treachery. Worse still, your exploitation of the 
Holocaust in a country carved out of the wounds of that very crime, in 
order to strike a low blow at American citizens whose politics differs 
from your own is unforgivable and unpardonable. Let me remind you, Mr. 
Bush, of your words today 
<http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/15/bush-suggests-obama-wants-appeasement-of-terrorists/>:

    "Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and
    radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have
    been wrong all along," Bush said at Israel's 60th anniversary
    celebration in Jerusalem.

    "We have heard this foolish delusion before," Bush said in remarks
    to Israel's parliament, the Knesset. "As Nazi tanks crossed into
    Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if only I could
    have talked to Hitler, all of 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."

Well Mr. Bush, the only thing this comment lacked was a mirror and some 
historical facts. You want to discuss the crimes of Nazis against my 
family and millions of other families in Europe during World War II? Let 
me revive a favorite phrase of yours: Bring. It. On!
*
The All-American Nazi*

Your family's fortune is built on the bones of the very people butchered 
by the Nazis, my family and the families of those in the Knesset who 
applauded you today <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,100474,00.html>:

    WASHINGTON -- President Bush's grandfather was a director of a bank
    seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German
    industrialist who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler's rise to power,
    government documents show.

    Prescott Bush was one of seven directors of Union Banking Corp.
    (search), a New York investment bank owned by a bank controlled by
    the Thyssen family, according to recently declassified National
    Archives documents reviewed by The Associated Press.

    Fritz Thyssen was an early financial supporter of Hitler, whose Nazi
    party Thyssen believed was preferable to communism.

    --snip--

    Both Harrimans and Bush were partners in the New York investment
    firm of Brown Brothers, Harriman and Co., which handled the
    financial transactions of the bank as well as other financial
    dealings with several other companies linked to Bank voor Handel
    that were confiscated by the U.S. government during World War II.

    Union Banking was seized by the government in October 1942 under the
    Trading with the Enemy Act.

Oh, but there is much more too 
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar>:

    The two Holocaust survivors suing the US government and the Bush
    family for a total of $40bn in compensation claim both materially
    benefited from Auschwitz slave labour during the second world war,
    Kurt Julius Goldstein, 87, and Peter Gingold, 85, began a class
    action in America in 2001, but the case was thrown out by Judge
    Rosemary Collier on the grounds that the government cannot be held
    liable under the principle of "state sovereignty".

I cannot think of one Democrat who can boast this kind of lineage. Can 
you? No, I don't think so. But you can lie brazenly and attack a sitting 
US Senator on foreign soil by comparing him to Nazi sympathizers? Let us 
continue down memory lane to help those who applaud you understand just 
what it is they are celebrating.

*The All American Traitor*

You family did not stop with supporting fascists and Nazis abroad, did 
they Mr. Bush? Surely you must know of your grandfather's role in the 
treasonous plot of 1933 to overthrow democracy in America? Let me remind 
you.

Grandpa Bush - that is to say, your grandfather - wanted fascism 
imported into the United States, or as you now call this type of 
transformation, "exporting democracy." Prescott went so far as to 
subsidize a coup attempt in order to achieve his dream of a fascist 
America (see BBC report below 
<democracy.http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml>):

    Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by
    right-wing American businessmen. The coup was aimed at toppling
    President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war
    veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most
    famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea,
    Maxwell Hse & George Bush's Grandfather, Prescott) believed that
    their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to
    beat the great depression. Mike Thomson investigates why so little
    is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American

In other words, not only was your grandfather a self-professed fascist, 
he was a Nazi sympathizer and a war profiteer who should have stood 
trial at the Hague instead of buying his way into the US Senate. He was 
also a traitor, twice over.

Now clearly the crimes of Prescott Bush are not your fault, Mr. George 
W. Bush. Let us therefore judge your actions and words on their own merit.

*Iraq is your Poland*

Your reminiscence today about the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany 
should have been seen as your own condemnation of your own abhorrent 
actions against Iraq. The morbid irony of what you said will likely 
never register with your or your speechwriter. To truly grasp the 
grotesqueness of what you said requires that you have both a conscience 
and some understanding of history. We know you possess neither.

I will therefore make your history lesson brief, but to the point. The 
unprovoked attack on Poland by Germany was a war crime just as your 
attack against Iraq - based on lies - is a war crime. This is not my 
opinion. This is not a political attack. This is a fact. Consider the 
words of the esteemed former chief prosecutor in the Nuremburg trials, 
Benjamin Ferencz, regarding your war of aggression against Iraq 
<http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/38604/>:

    "...Prima facie case can be made that the United States is guilty of
    the supreme crime against humanity, that being an illegal war of
    aggression against a sovereign nation."

Moreover, your reckless verbiage and partisan pandering using something 
as tragic and criminal as Germany's war of aggression against Poland is 
an insult to all victims of those atrocities.

My grandfather's sister and parents were having supper in their Warsaw 
home when a German bomb erased them from this planet. Your evoking the 
German atrocities against Poland in order to play dirty politics against 
Democrats is as offensive to me as if you had pinned a swastika onto 
your lapel.

Even your own words appear to be penned by Hitler's ghost all the while 
you imply that Democrats are Nazis and/or terrorists - something you 
have done over and over. Your lies and Hitler's lies even have the same 
purpose.

When you, Mr. Bush, said "see in my line of work you got to keep 
repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, 
to kind of catapult the propaganda," were you aware of Adolph Hitler's 
eerily similar statement? Hitler said "If you tell a big enough lie and 
tell it frequently enough, it will be believed."

Yet if words alone were your only weapon and words strung together into 
lies your only crime, you might be seen as simply the loathsome, 
unethical dilettante and despot that you are. Unfortunately, your crimes 
are many and so similar to those of the Nazi regime that at times one 
wonders if you are not yourself reenacting that very history you used 
today as an insult against a political opponent.

*Your very own concentration camps*

You ordered the creation of secret camps all over the world and on US 
territory where you also authorized the torture of countless men, women 
and children is a violation of the Geneva Conventions, international 
law, and domestic law. In other words, you authorized war crimes.

We don't know the number of people you have had disappeared, tortured, 
and possibly murdered. Although we have some idea of what these numbers 
may be, I doubt the full truth of it all will ever be known.

In 2005, I had a CENTCOM document leaked to me 
<http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2005/051115-iraqi-prisons.htm> 
illustrating that since the start of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, more 
than 70,000 men, women, and children have been detained at one of your 
various camps Mr. Bush. We don't know what happened to them, if they 
were tortured, raped, or murdered. What we do know is that less than 2% 
of those 70,000 had any sort of charge brought against them in a court 
of law. None of those alleged crimes, by the way, were acts of 
terrorism. We don't know if that 70,000 figure was the actual and full 
count of detainees in US custody around the world in 2005. But it is 
safe to say that in the last 3 years since this document was published, 
the number of detainees has likely grown.

What we also now know, in great horror, is that at least one of your 
camps had a crematorium in it, which some of the US soldiers stationed 
there suspected was used for burning bodies 
<http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/24/080324fa_fact_gourevitch>:

    "We had some kind of incinerator at the end of our building,"
    Specialist Megan Ambuhl said. "It was this huge circular thing. We
    just didn't know what was incinerated in there. It could have been
    people, for all we knew--bodies." Sergeant Davis was not in doubt.
    "It had bones in it," he said, and he called it the crematorium.
    "But hey, you're at war," he said. "Suck it up or drive on."

What we also now know is that Dick Cheney and senior members of your 
administration carried out a plan of torture and abuse that violated 
international and domestic law with regard to human rights, down to the 
type of torture tactics that would be used against prisoners in our 
custody. This plan, we now know, was approved by you.

Has the mirror cracked yet from this much fact or are you still peering 
into the political sphere hoping to ascribe your own crimes to others? 
It won't work. It never has and it certainly won't work now. We know far 
too much about you and yours.

I could continue listing the litany of your crimes, both against the 
United States and against foreign nations. I won't. We know what you are 
and what you have done. Having roughly 1,000,000 dead Iraqis under your 
belt should have shamed you into the parasitic hole you came out of, 
attaching yourself to the blood of this nation and sucking it dry. 
Instead, you parade around, the globe-trotting horror show and 
anti-Semite that you are.
*
Yes, you are an anti-Semite*

Would you say no, you are not an anti-Semite? Consider your own words 
when you thought no one was keeping score 
<http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Book_Bush_told_reporter_Jews_are_0902.html>:

    "You know what I'm gonna tell those Jews when I get to Israel, don't
    you Herman?" a then Governor George W. Bush allegedly asked a
    reporter for the Austin American-Statesman.

    When the journalist, Ken Herman, replied that he did not know, Bush
    reportedly delivered the punch line: "I'm telling 'em they're all
    going to hell."

Only an anti-Semite would think this type of humor is acceptable. Did 
you tell the Jews of Israel they were going to hell? No, instead, you 
told them that American Democrats are Nazi sympathizers and in an act of 
sheer indecency, the right wing Likud party orchestrated the greatest 
applause you ever got. For shame!

What this blind adoration finally proves to me is that the right-wing 
regime that has overtaken Israel cares nothing for its people, its 
heritage, and the tragic history that they now honor by applauding a man 
whose family-fortune was built on the bodies of their loved ones. Like 
their Republican (and Lieberman) counterparts in the United States, 
Likud does not represent its people, rather, it represents its owners. 
Likud has traded Israel, its Jews, their heritage and history for the 
same golden calf purchased and sold by the far-right wing in the United 
States.

I am ashamed of you Mr. Bush. I am ashamed of those who applauded your 
political porn played out against the hallowed backdrop of the 
Holocaust. I am ashamed of those reporters with you, who between them 
could not muster the moral courage to call you out on your ugly rhetoric 
and ask you about your own family Nazi ties. You are, sir, the most 
abhorrent human being of my lifetime. I dare say, in the lifetime of 
this nation.

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