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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-03 11:06 PM
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Chicago Sun Times publishes Prescott Bush Nazi ties story
Of course they say he had no connection.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-nazi19.html

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.

Prescott Bush was one of seven directors of Union Banking Corp., 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.

Fritz Thyssen was an early financial supporter of Hitler, and Thyssen thought Hitler's Nazi party was preferable to communism. The documents do not show any evidence that Bush directly aided that effort. His position with Union Banking never was a political issue for Bush, who was elected to the Senate from Connecticut in 1952.

Reports of Bush's involvement with the seized bank have been circulating on the Internet for years and have been reported by some mainstream media. The newly declassified documents provide additional details about the Union Banking-Thyssen connection.


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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-03 11:11 PM
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1. I wondered how the media would address this
I hate this fucking bullshit of no accountability.

W isn't responsible for his instance where he has "mispoken", or for the lousy intelligence that he loves to blame. I mean, its not like he has any control or authority over anything, since he is only THE FUCKING PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!

And the same thing is happening here. Prescott Bush was one of the top executives, but he apparently had no control over the actions of his company??????


:wtf:


These people, the supposed "party of personal responsibility", really needs to fucking shut the hell up. They must realize that their excuses leave two options:

Either Bush is horribly corrupt and directly responsible for his lies and actions

or

Bush is horribly incompetent and must resign immediately
Bush
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-03 11:17 PM
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2. If it were Grandpa Clinton, would the story look the same?
Just wondering.

But still, at least some stink is being applied to Dumbya.
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tritsofme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-03 11:25 PM
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3. I am
in no way a suporter of Bush, but I dont hold a man responsible for the actions of his grandfather, we have plenty of other things to blast him with.

We try to use this, and the cons shut their ears and yell Joe Kennedy.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-03 11:49 PM
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4. sun times
owned by the hollinger group. not a liberal newspaper-media group. iteresting that they see fit to publish this...
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david_vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 12:06 AM
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5. Still, this little bit of history is key to the current situation
Just my opinion... when Prescott Bush was stripped of his money by Congress for trading with the enemy, the Bush family was so stung and humiliated that they have, for generations since, considered it their mission to marshall and direct power. And not merely their mission, but also, in a sense, their destiny. Rationale? Pick one. To protect themselves from the power structure by assuming control of it, to vindicate themselves from the judgment of history, to cash in, to fulfill their destiny. Yes, comparisons could be made to the Kennedy family. It seems to me, though, that the Kennedys function more from a sense of noblesse oblige, whereas the Bushes imagine themselves more or less chosen for power. It's worthwhile noting that the Nazis, too, had a profound belief in destiny as an active force.
Anyway, if Prescott hadn't been so rudely treated by Congress for helping out Henry Ford's buddy Hitler, we wouldn't have Dubya in the White House today. Just my armchair theorizing.
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 12:59 AM
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7. Like your take -- substitute "caveat emptor" for "chosen for power"
better fit -- imho
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Unknown Known Donating Member (829 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 01:04 AM
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8. Actually, Prescott got off with nary a slap on the wrist
The Farish family were the ones who took the brunt - the father and son. The father had been President & CEO of Standard Oil and he also managed a cartel between Standard Oil and I.G. Farben. Apparently, he had given the Nazis the company patent for artificial rubber, and hid it from the U.S. govt. This as well as other patents (which came out later in Senate investigation).

The govt went after Farish hard and he died of a heart attack during this time. His son died in an "accident" soon after his father died. All the wealth went to the grandson who became the BushCo money manager.

The bush bank seizure didn't get much publicity. Prescott went on to run for Senate seat in Conn.

The Farish & Bush family alliances go way back.

http://www.tarpley.net/bush3.htm
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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 12:28 AM
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6. are you surprised?
they still have Bob Novak on their payroll!

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