OK, blame W for Iraq. I blame his grandpa for WWII

[reprobate]

Remember that Prescott and his Union Bank was what financed Hitler's growth to a military force in the 1930s. Without him Adolph would have been no more than a bad painter.

It's Prescott Bush that is responsible for the fifty million deaths that occurred between 1939 and 1945. And nothing has changed in that family. George wanted to be a war president. Of course he's such a screw up that he'll never rack up the big numbers of dead that his grandpa did.

[Greeby]

1. He was hardly the only rich American helping the Nazis

So holding him responsible is a bit of a stretch

[rudeboy666]

3. Are you implying some expectation of rationalism?

When it comes to Bush and everything evil under the sun, it is a bit of a stretch to expect some rationalism on the part of some DU folks.

It's safe to assume that none of us support the current regime (or its family associates). But the extremism of some DU folks sure is perplexing.

[LeftishBrit]

2. That's putting it a bit strongly...

Prescott Bush HELPED Hitler; but Hitler would have no doubt carried out his nefarious actions even if Prescott Bush had never existed.

[seemslikeadream]

11. The Passing of the Great Race

http://www.genetics-and-society.org/resources/items/20030907_latimes_platt.html

War Against the Weak also asserts that until the United States entered the war, the Nazi regime's "eugenical courts, mass sterilization mills, concentration camps, and virulent biological anti-Semitism enjoyed the open approval of leading American eugenicists and their institutions." This may have been true, but Black doesn't have the evidence to back up his claim. Moreover, he doesn't need to pile on the hyperbole when he's dug up so many compelling examples of the love affair between American eugenicists and German race scientists: for example, that Corporal Hitler read his favorite American eugenicists while in jail in 1924 and later sent a fan letter to Madison Grant, author of The Passing of the Great Race; or the strange case of Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen, a Jewish psychiatrist, eugenicist and naturalized American citizen, who was found guilty by the Nuremberg tribunal for committing war crimes in Buchenwald.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Grant
The book was immensely popular and went through multiple printings in the United States, and was translated into a number of other languages, notably German in 1925. By 1937 the book had sold 16,000 copies in the United States alone. Nordic theory was also strongly embraced by the racial hygiene movement in Germany in the early 1920s and 1930s; however, they typically used the term "Aryan" instead of "Nordic", though the principal Nazi ideologist, Alfred Rosenberg, preferred "Aryo-Nordic" or "Nordic-Atlantean". Stephen Jay Gould described The Passing of the Great Race as "The most influential tract of American scientific racism." Grant's work was embraced by proponents of the National Socialist movement in Germany; Passing was the first non-German book ordered to be reprinted by the Nazis when they took power, and Adolf Hitler wrote to Grant that, "The book is my Bible".

[bahrbearian]

4. Give him time, It 's just taking him longer,,he is the decider

Prescott was the Enabler.

[ben_meyers]

5. Well I blame Grampa Kennedy, Amb to England, for ww2

As ambassador, he supported the appeasement policies of Neville Chamberlain with Hitler and rejected the warnings of Winston Churchill that compromise with Germany was impossible. As Roosevelt shifted from neutrality to a more anti-German position, Kennedy pulled away from him and in 1940 resigned as ambassador. The tenseness between the two increased as Joseph Kennedy Jr. vocally opposed the re-nomination of Roosevelt in 1940.
http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/Opinionator/2007/02/11/ambassador_joseph_p_kennedy_sr

Makes as much sense.

[seriousstan]

6. Did you cut and paste this from the definition of BDS on Wikipedia?

Bush derangement syndrome?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

7. I am in awe at your grasp of history.

Bowled me right over.

[and-justice-for-all]

8. Well, this is true...

..Being that their is a tyrantical bush on the Hill now and that their are scarey simularities of tactics between Lil' Bush and Hitler.

Prescott was a major contributor to the ThirdReich, but not the only one. It should be brought to light, this fact of the Bush familiy and that it should be considered a possiblity that Lil' Bush/Bush Sr are useing Hitler tactics to forward an agenda of global proportions.

[KG]

9. the bush family are death merchants

their fortune and power are built on the dead bodies of working class americans.

[stimbox]

10. If only that Zero pilot

had been a better shot, we wouldn't be in this situation!

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