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OutsourceBush Donating Member (860 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-04 04:46 AM
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How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
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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

Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
Saturday September 25, 2004
The Guardian

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.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html>

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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-04 07:28 AM
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1. Kick it up.
The elder Bush was a fan of EUGENICS, also!
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OutsourceBush Donating Member (860 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-04 09:10 AM
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2. morning kick
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Free2BMe Donating Member (535 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-04 09:13 AM
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3. and of course GeorgeHitlerWalkerBush's family has connections
to BinLaden..nothing new under the sun in hypocricy land.
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WLKjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-04 09:15 AM
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4. Kick
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OutsourceBush Donating Member (860 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-04 03:48 PM
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5. prime-time kick
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-04 03:57 PM
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6. Kick
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kimchi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-15-04 11:36 PM
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7. Thanks for that depressing reminder of war crimes.
And let me kick before I go puke.
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bvar22 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-15-04 11:59 PM
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8. *
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