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Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45
Harriman Bank was the main Wall Street partner for several German companies and the varied U.S. financial interests of Fritz Thyssen. Thyssen had been an early financial backer of the Nazi party, but by 1939 was bitterly denouncing Hitler and had fled Germany. He was later jailed by the Nazis for his opposition to the Nazi regime.[5] Business transactions with Germany were not illegal until Hitler declared war on the United States on December 11, 1941, but, six days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Trading With the Enemy Act after it had been made public that U.S. companies were doing business with the declared enemy of the United States. On October 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of German banking operations in New York City. Roosevelt's Alien Property Custodian, Leo T. Crowley, signed Vesting Order Number 248 seizing property under the Trading with the Enemy Act. The order cited only the Union Banking Corporation (UBC), of which Bush was a director and held only one share. Fox News has reports on recently declassified material about this issue, according to a document signed by Homer Jones, chief of the division of investigation and research of the Office of Alien Property Custodian, a World War II-era agency.[6] By 1941 Thyssen no longer had control over his business empire, which was in the hands of the Nazi government.
Read into that what you will. Hitler, until he began attacking his neighbors was the darling of the American left and even Roosevelt thought that some of the programs Hitler put in place were worthwhile. Besides, how does Prescott Bush have anything at all to do with John McCain or George W. Bush?
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Because when you live in a glass house you shouldn't throw stones. I was waiting and hoping that this would be brought up in the press conference but it wasn't because Mr. Obama has A LOT OF CLASS.
Also, there are many Jewish organizations who black-ball Bush because of his grandfather's ties to the Nazis.
I believe what Keith Oberman said was perfect "SHUT THE HELL UP” Especially when you are contradicting your own staff and 2008 Republican nominee, who by the way, changed directions after the Bush statement was made.
ALL IN ONE DAY... it shows the full hypocrisy of the Right-Wing Agenda