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Oh, GW comes from a long line of slimy folks. It didn’t start with his father! Both of GW’s grandfathers had connections to the Nazi’s. George Herbert Walker was the bigger Nazi sympathizer but Prescott Bush made his money funding the Nazi regime before and during WWII.
Dealing with Nazi Germany, and even financing Hitler, may have been ethically and morally repugnant but they weren't illegal until Hitler declared war on the US--but the Bush's didn't stop even then. Six days after Pearl Harbor, FDR signed the Trading With the Enemies Act. By then, most (though not all) of the companies that had been doing business with Hitler's war machine had stopped--but not Prescott Bush and the Union Banking Corporation. Prescott Bush continued business as usual, aiding the Nazi invasion of Europe and supplying resources for weaponry that would eventually be turned on American solders in combat against Germany.
Four Bush companies were eventually seized for trading with the enemy:
On October 20, 1942, UBC assets in New York were seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act.
On October 28, 1942, two Bush partnerships (the Holland-American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation) were seized for their affiliations with the Nazi Regime.
On November 17, 1942, the Silesian-American Corporation (managed by Prescott Bush and his father-in-law, George Herbert Walker) were also seized.
According to classified documents from Dutch intelligence and US government archives, President George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush made considerable profits off Auschwitz slave labor.
As we all know, the Bush financial saga continued in later years with other unsavory joint ventures--one of which was the funding of GW's first oil venture (and subsequent others) by the bin Ladin family. Their cozy friendship continued for decades. After a terrorist attack at a barracks in Saudi Arabia killed 19 Americans, the bin Laden family received a multi-billion dollar contract to rebuild the destroyed structures and, incredibly, George Bush Sr. was in a business meeting at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington on the morning of September 11th with one of Osama Bin Laden's brothers.
Why do we not hear these stories? There is an African proverb that sums it up nicely, "Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters." Right now our media is largely controlled by Republican-owned organizations. Very soon our voting machines will be too. The intenet may well be the last place where we can exchange ideas and information free of the biases of those who have something to sell us. |