Prescott Bush and the Nazis
George W. really needs to learn his family's history a bit better.
And he might also think that when he says the US should have bombed Auschwitz, that his words might be misconstrued.
And he might also think that when he says the US should have bombed Auschwitz, that his words might be misconstrued.
posted by spooked at 1:37 PM
8 Comments:
Bush would be in favour of bombing anywhere as long as he and his cronies could arm both sides.
You really don't give a damn about the truth, do you?
"One of Phillip's most attention-grabbing chapters posits the theory that the Bushes were involved in the rise of Adolf Hitler. While he correctly notes that Brown Brothers Harriman, an investment-banking firm employing Prescott Bush and George H. Walker (George W. Bush's great-grandfather), investing in Nazi-era German companies, Phillips fails to note that it was Averell Harriman, later FDR's ambassador to Moscow and Truman's commerce secretary, who initiated these investments (and some in Soviet Russia) before either of the Bushes joined the firm. Prescott Bush did not oversee these investments: the reality is that he was involved almost exclusively in managing the firm's domestic portfolio. It was Harriman who largely managed the foreign investments and, accordingly, it was he who met German and Soviet leaders. (Peter Schweizer, "Kevin Phillip's Politics of Deceit," National Review Online, March 30, 2004,
www.nationalreview.com/comment/schweizer200403300907.asp
[accessed Jan. 23, 2007])'"
3:43 PM
Your quote doesn't support your claim. And it certainly doesn't refute the claim made by Kevin Phillips.
Anon 3:43 PM-- just curious, did you even bother to click on the link I provided?
A large number of wealthy Americans thought that the U.S. fought for the wrong side in WW2. Maybe Prescott Bush was among that number.
One thing that I must add is that I taught at a private school where Susie Herskowitiz also taught. It is difficult for me to believe that her husband would be careless with the truth. He was a much admired journalist in Houston before turning his pen/keyboard to the writing of (admittedly sympathetic) biographies.
Anon 3:43 PM-- your precious quote doesn't invalidate anything I wrote. And it still seems as though you didn't even bother to read the article I linked to, which goes into the issue in much more depth than your quote an is not even from some Bush-hating site.
But I guess I am touched that you feel so strongly that you need to defend Bush-- quite noble of you.
A large number of wealthy Americans thought that the U.S. fought for the wrong side in WW2. Maybe Prescott Bush was among that number.
Down-playing good old P. Bush's role in supplying the Nazi party!
Nicely done @9:40!
Are you saying that the statement isn't true or are you just being paranoid?
If you know much about history, then you should know that it's true that many of the wealthiest people in this country believed that the U.S. fought for the wrong side.
Personally, I don't believe that you
know much about U.S. history and that
you ARE paranoid.
Post a Comment
<< Home