How Bush's Grandfather Helped Hitler's Rise to Power

In light of the Chimperator's lastest blather - and John McCain's edorsement of the untruths -about unnamed Democrats favoring the appeasement of enemies nations like Iran, it is most telling that a previous story in the Guardian which did not get adequate exposure in the past shows that the Bush family knows all about appeasement, or perhaps more accurately, trading with the enemy. As the Guardian reports, granddaddy Bush was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. Current Bush family dealings with Middle East despots is merely a continuation of long standing family practices. Once again, the Chimperator has shown himself to be a disingenuous idiot. Here are some story highlights:

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The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism. His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy. 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.

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But the new documents, many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty.