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Rocknrule (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 01:10 PM Original message |
What position would today's Republicans take in WWII |
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Loonman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
1. They'd support the Axis |
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SoFlaJet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 01:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. And........ |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 01:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Just like some of them actually did. Prescott Bush, as an example. |
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ReadTomPaine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 01:46 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Bingo- it's not what *would* they do, it's what they *did* do. n/t |
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GrumpyGreg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
2. Are you nuts? You think the Republicans supported the axis? |
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gordianot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 01:19 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Many supported Hitler and the Nazi's including members of the Bush family. |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 01:27 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Well, Henry Ford had a photo of Hitler on his desk |
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ReadTomPaine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 01:45 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. That is precisely what Prescott Bush did. |
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GrumpyGreg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 06:02 PM Response to Reply #7 |
22. Prescott Bush was an ass---Old Joe Kennedy,the anti-semitic Hitler |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 01:47 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. Actually, during the thirties a lot of corporations and wealthy Americans |
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ReadTomPaine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 01:52 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Yep, they were eager to bring the same "reforms" stateside. n/t |
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htuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 03:15 PM Response to Reply #10 |
21. You can find a number of pre-war Reader's Digest articles about Hitler |
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Jara sang (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 03:08 PM Response to Reply #2 |
20. Check your history book. They actually DID support the Nazis. |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 07:14 PM Response to Reply #2 |
24. Check out Gen. Smedley Butler right wing coup story (LINK) |
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GrumpyGreg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 08:41 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Thanks for that link--I'll check it out. |
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Loonman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
9. Hitler's biggest supporters |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
11. They wouldn't have enlisted, I can tell you that much |
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zbdent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
12. Charles Lindbergh, Republican |
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ReadTomPaine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 01:58 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Here's a photo of him getting a medal from Hermann Goering in 1938 |
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lectrobyte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
15. They'd be getting rich off both sides. Oh wait, they already did that... |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
16. we'd join the Axis |
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Tactical Progressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 02:50 PM Response to Original message |
17. It depends on who was in power |
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ReadTomPaine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 06:47 PM Response to Reply #17 |
23. Well said and precisely on target. |
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Tactical Progressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 08:49 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. You said it exactly |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 03:03 PM Response to Original message |
18. Well for one they would invade Argentina...or Finland |
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Jamison (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
19. Today's Republicans? |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
25. They would collaborate with Hitler, like Bushler's grandfather Prescott. |
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Kansas Wyatt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
28. Their position would be.... |
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Jacobin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 09:09 PM Response to Original message |
29. they would have cut taxes and tortured europeans |
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