How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

Guardian ^ | 09/25/04 | Ben Aris

[RobbyS]

The lie that won't die.

[Jaded]

Retread. They just don't ever quit.

[Libertina]

Oh for heaven sake. I am not going to read this garbage. President Bush is like a cross to a vampire - the left goes NUTS..oh wait, they ARE nuts! LOL

[Dog Gone]

They've lost. If all they can do is bring out the same stories they ran in 2000, they're done in the sleaze dept.

Will the Guardian break the DUI story next week?

[marmar]

And..........your point is?

[F16Fighter]

And forgotten is the actual beginning of this essay:

"Once upon a time..."

[Indy Pendance]

I'll bet some distant relative helped Atilla the Hun.

[elhombrelibre]

That's right. And these reports deserve the gravity you and I give them.

[B-Chan]

Oh, for Pete's sake! Are they still at it? The Bush/Nazi thing is old and tired, not to mention just plain dumb. I mean, prior to and during the early years of the war half the business bigshots in America were financially involved with German industry in some way or another. So what if Prescott Bush did business with the Nazis? So did Henry Ford, and a lot of others, too!

You'll notice that the writer buried the key phrase “there is no suggestion that Prescott Bush was sympathetic to the Nazi cause” deep within this mass of innuendo and slander. With each passing year The Grauniad becomes less a newspaper and more the Pravda of the Pennines.

Thanks for posting the clip.

[Congressman Billybob]

Clear proof, if any more be needed, that the Guardian should not be read by anyone. It should, like Pravda, be torn into small squares and left in piles on the back of the toilet where it can do someone some good.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "Kerry Hasn't REad a History Book"

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[Axenolith]

Filed with the ones detailing Ford's birthday money gifts to Hitler and the companies technical assistance toward restoring production at occupied French truck factories after we'd bombed them in 1943...

[Mr. Buzzcut]

Even if this hadn't been debunked a bazillion times ... is GWB's grandfather in the race?

[phxaz]

presidential ancestor, bealzibush, sold apples in the garden of eden.

[intolerancewillNOTbetolerated]

"The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

Funny, the same thing could be said of John F. Kerry himself."

Exactly what I was thinking.

[swilhelm73]

By Godwin's law, The Guardian just lost the argument.

[ultima ratio]

What about his great-grandfather's gambling habit? How about his great aunt lying about her age? How about when he skipped school to see a movie when he was nine years old? How about the parking ticket he got in high school for parking next to a fire hydrant? And let's not forget Laura's third cousin who cheated on his income tax. All kinds of terrible stuff out there...

[AnnaZ]

While there is no suggestion that Prescott Bush was sympathetic to the Nazi cause, the documents reveal that the firm he worked for, Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), acted as a US base for the German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, who helped finance Hitler in the 1930s before falling out with him at the end of the decade. The Guardian has seen evidence that shows Bush was the director of the New York-based Union Banking Corporation (UBC) that represented Thyssen's US interests and he continued to work for the bank after America entered the war.

I've finally found it! The definition of "reaching".

[Freepdonia]

The lawyers also filed a motion in The Hague asking for an opinion on whether state sovereignty is a valid reason for refusing to hear their case. A ruling is expected within a month.

Don't they realize that the election is only a little more than a...never mind.

[elhombrelibre]

A cousin of Laura's mother's neighbor had a chicken that wouldn't lay eggs.