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In reply to the discussion: Prescott Bush was neither a Nazi nor a Nazi sympathizer. [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)139. Grandson George Walker Bush is a NAZI stooge.
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Oh noes! A "Bush defender" and a "racist"! Why has that DUer not been banned?????? (nt)
Nye Bevan
Jun 2013
#14
Perhaps because there are still enough people on DU who believe in freedom of speech?
panzerfaust
Jun 2013
#54
Well thank the gods you didn't try to defend Ron Paul who has killed and tortured tens of thousands
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#31
So you are saying that as long as an accusation is aimed at Thatcher or the Bushes
treestar
Jun 2013
#65
Nye Bevan (the DUer, not the man) wrongly said that Thatcher didn't support illegal wars
CreekDog
Jun 2013
#66
It's the same thing with DUers who have "dem" and "liberal" and "leftist" and "Obama"
Occulus
Jun 2013
#99
"According to journalist Joe Conason, Prescott Bush's involvement with UBC was purely commercial"
Swagman
Jun 2013
#43
Bush continued as director of several NAZI front companies even after we were at war with Germany
panzerfaust
Jun 2013
#48
your source rense.com is on the most extreme end of batshit crazy, crackpot conspiracy theorist site
Douglas Carpenter
Jun 2013
#121
Because the use of cliched falsehoods that have been debunked multiple times bores me (nt)
Nye Bevan
Jun 2013
#6
Actually, the article EM provides debunks the "P. Bush is a Nazi", as well.
Behind the Aegis
Jun 2013
#12
that's true he was not. One can despise the Bush family or some of the Bush family without making
Douglas Carpenter
Jun 2013
#3
FFS, his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act
Electric Monk
Jun 2013
#8
I guess one can climb up on a cross for accuracy but do keep in mind that
TheKentuckian
Jun 2013
#74
This thread was tweaking my jaw until I got to your post which provides clarity.
reusrename
Jun 2013
#87
bush had direct financial ties to the financial angel of the nazi party. kennedy had no revealed
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#84
what we see is the same sort of conspiracy theorist logic that proclaims Barack Hussein Obama
Douglas Carpenter
Jun 2013
#91
Well put and argued. I would go even further and say that false accusations
HardTimes99
Jun 2013
#98
This is what happens when the community decides what's acceptable and the rules are so fluid.
Occulus
Jun 2013
#102
+1. I love people who stand up for facts even when they don't fit their world view.
cali
Jun 2013
#40
Oh, that's right. He only attempted a coup d'etat against FDR in the Business Plot.
backscatter712
Jun 2013
#10
I think this escapade had a LOT to do with GHWB "going patriot" as young as he did
SoCalDem
Jun 2013
#77
i don't think his private beliefs matter; he helped fund the party & hide nazi assets. if he
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#85
the past is present. so 'only as history' is just crap. history is now; we are history.
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#86
it's not unusual at all, nor is it meaningless to the discussion. the present is the product of
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#114
Oh, is this thread in response to William Pitt's thread earlier quoting Hunter S Thompson?
Electric Monk
Jun 2013
#24
No wonder that set off the OP -- Thompson called out "the cowardly flag-suckers!"
villager
Jun 2013
#38
More interesting is the anti-Semitic site being used to "prove" the OP is false.
Behind the Aegis
Jun 2013
#37
harriman also did business with nazis and helped hide nazi assets. what difference do his private
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#89
I encourage everyone to thoroughly study the putrid history of the Bush family.
David__77
Jun 2013
#52
worse, he was a profiteer. and should have been charged under The Trading With The Enemy Act.
hobbit709
Jun 2013
#55
I've been sitting here reading this thread thinking "Where's Octafish when you need him?!!"
summerschild
Jun 2013
#118
well, i guess if the adl says so, we must believe. even though whatever his *beliefs,* he was
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#80
There is no connection between the american koch family and ilse koch whatsoever.
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#82
the american kochs came to the US from Netherlands in the 1880s. They're nothing to do
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#115
Doesn't negate the fact that George W Bush is a torturing and murdering war criminal who
Lint Head
Jun 2013
#90
Prescott Bush was charged with Trading With The Enemy and his assets were seized.
Zen Democrat
Jun 2013
#128