Jeb Bush Tours Auschwitz

[Cooley Hurd]

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-06-10/jeb-bush-tours-auschwitz

Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush made an unannounced stop in Krakow on Wednesday to tour the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

Bush toured the camp with wife, Columba, Bloomberg confirmed. He didn't invite the roughly 10 reporters from the U.S. and Europe following the former Florida governor on his five-day, three-country tour, out of respect for the site and those affected, a Bush aide said.

More than 1 million people, mostly Jewish prisoners, died at the camp during World War II.

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Hmmm... I seem to recall an ancestor of Jeb's was more than happy to do business with Nazi Germany up to WW2. Name escapes me...

[valerief]

1. Badda bing!

[notadmblnd]

2. Good times, eh John Ellis?

Brings back memories of how ole grand pappy Prescott contributed greatly by financing the Nazi's and making it all possible. Yeah, Good times.

[DJ13]

3. Its a family tradition

[Qutzupalotl]

4. Awk-ward...

[KamaAina]

5. Dear FSM, I thought this was going to be The Onion.

[Fumesucker]

13. I LOLed when I saw the title

So yeah, I guess I was expecting the Onion too..

[Cleita]

6. I was just gonna say. Weren't members of his family on the other side of the fence? eom

[Octafish]

7. "Boy, they were big on crematoriums, weren't they?" -- George Herbert Walker Bush at Auschwitz

http://www.allhatnocattle.net/PoppaBushQuotes.htm

"Do people challenge the accuracy of what you present?" -- The only question posed by then "president" George Walker Bush in 1993 at Auschwitz death camp.

[hifiguy]

8. You cannot make this shit up.

Monty Python would throw their collective hands to the sky in frustration and head for the pub. They know when they're licked by reality.

[sarisataka]

9. So much I could say

But out of respect for the victims I will simply say I doubt he he gained any insight during his visit

[lpbk2713]

10. Timing is everything Jebbie.

Gee. Hooda guessed this son of a Bush announced his candidacy?

[moondust]

11. Did his travel expenses come out of his inheritance?

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And thus his trip actually paid for in part by the Auschwitz murderers?

[ruffburr]

12. He is thinking about-

His presidential platfoms social welfare plan

[Raster]

14. Says Jebbie: "My Granddaddy helped build this!"

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

Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president
George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

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.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

[PeoViejo]

15. Determined not to re-invent the Wheel

JEB takes a tour of some of his grandpappy's handiwork for ideas.

[madinmaryland]

16. Holy shit! This is Hugh!!

Going back to see the death camps his grandfather bankrolled.