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<DIV><FONT size=2>This info on Bush family support for Nazi Germany is really
getting around at last! I've sent it round many times, most recently today
with my Speculations on the Nature of Evil -- written last year, re-written a
few days ago.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>It is SO GREAT the public may become educated about
this!!!!!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Connie</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=aqmstaffo@mailbag.com href="mailto:aqmstaffo@mailbag.com">Daniel
Stafford</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:39
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [CitizensTruth] Larisa: Bush
family's Nazi ties and 'appeasement'</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Wow. Ya think? <BR><BR><BR><A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://www.atlargely.com/2008/05/all-the-preside.html">http://www.atlargely.com/2008/05/all-the-preside.html</A><BR>
<H3 class=entry-header>All the President's Nazis (real and imagined): An Open
Letter to Bush</H3>
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<P>(cross-posted at <A
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/all-the-presidents-nazis_b_102022.html"
target=_blank linkindex="8">Huffington Post</A>)</P>
<P>Dear Mr. Bush,</P>
<P>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, <A
href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/15/bush-suggests-obama-wants-appeasement-of-terrorists/"
target=_blank linkindex="9">of your words today</A>:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>"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.
</P>
<P>"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."</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>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!<BR><STRONG><BR>The All-American
Nazi</STRONG></P>
<P><A href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,100474,00.html" target=_blank
linkindex="10" set="yes">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</A>:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>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.</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>Fritz Thyssen was an early financial supporter of Hitler, whose Nazi
party Thyssen believed was preferable to communism. </P>
<P>--snip--</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>Union Banking was seized by the government in October 1942 under the
Trading with the Enemy Act.</P></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV>
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<P>Oh, but there <A
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar"
linkindex="11">is much more too</A>:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>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".
</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>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.</P>
<P><STRONG>The All American Traitor</STRONG></P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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 <A
href="democracy.http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml"
linkindex="12">BBC report below</A>):</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>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 </P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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.</P>
<P><STRONG>Iraq is your Poland</STRONG></P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>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 <A href="http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/38604/" linkindex="13">war of
aggression against Iraq</A>:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>"...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."</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>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." </P>
<P>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.</P>
<P><STRONG>Your very own concentration camps</STRONG></P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>In 2005, <A
href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2005/051115-iraqi-prisons.htm"
linkindex="14" set="yes">I had a CENTCOM document leaked to me
</A>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. </P>
<P>What we also now know, in great horror, is that at least one of your <A
href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/24/080324fa_fact_gourevitch"
linkindex="15">camps had a crematorium in it, which some of the US soldiers
stationed there suspected was used for burning bodies</A>:<BR></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>"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." </P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>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. <BR><STRONG><BR>Yes,
you are an anti-Semite</STRONG></P>
<P>Would you say no, you are not an anti-Semite? <A
href="http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Book_Bush_told_reporter_Jews_are_0902.html"
linkindex="16">Consider your own words when you thought no one was keeping
score</A>:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>"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. </P>
<P>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." </P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>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!</P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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.</P></DIV>
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