Bush-Hitler vs. Kerry-Hitler: You Make The Call!

Ironically, I was scouring Google Images for
items of interest, including "Bush" and "Bush Hitler",
(both of which are covered in *depth* at Google
Images, especially if you turn off "Safe Search"),
when I came across something interesting that
happened today!

Comrade Fuhrer Bush's new campaign ad appeared on TV,
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/afp/20040625/pl_afp/us_vote_hitler
linking Kerry to Hitler.

'The row broke out over a new television spot aired by President George W. Bush's campaign that shows Hitler twice in a compendium of clips that brands White House challenger John Kerry and his Democratic allies a "coalition of the wild-eyed."'

Needless to say, there is a brouhaha without the
"haha" at Kerry HQ!

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=144-06252004

Here is a commentary about the controversy:
http://www.thousandreasons.org/opinion/062504.html

Excerpt:
'Astonishingly, Bush sees himself as the antidote to all the "pessimism and rage" noted in his ad, which concludes by saying, "It's a time for optimism, steady leadership and progress." After demonizing John Kerry by comparing him to Hitler, after demonizing Max Cleland and questioning his patriotism, after demonizing Saddam Hussein to garner support for an unnecessary war, Bush wants us to be optimistic? In many ways the world is in tatters. Terrorism is up, the economy is down. Corporate profits are up, wages are down. Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine are dangerous, deadly places where lawlessness rules. If this qualifies as "steady leadership and progress," we'll take pessimism and rage.'

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Damn right...it is time to Rage Against the Machine!

The irony in all of this is that there are
thousands and thousands of comparisons of
Bush to Adolf on the internet. And rightly
so...in my opinion ;-0) People are *very*
serious about this, as can be seen from the
images they have published on their websites:
http://images.google.com/images?q=bush+hitler&svnum=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&tab=ni&sa=N

I mean, dang, there is a ton of Bush-Hitler
art out there. People spent a lot of time and
energy creating these images. Spend some time,
perhaps during your next coffee break at
work ;-)

Even among "Bush" Google Images in general,
the Bush-Hitler connection is Page Ranked
very highly. It is page 1 material in fact.

Page 1 at Google Images for Bush (with Safe
Search off) includes the #1 ranked image of
Bush and his ancestors ;-0) , Bush dressed up as
a soldier, Bush hanging with soldiers looking
through their binoculars -- from which he has
forgotten to remove the lens caps, Evil Doer
Bush, Bush-Hitler, Impeach Bush, Saddam-Bush,
Turkey & Bush, Pope & Bush, Transsexual Bush...
and more monkeys and more Hitler. In other
words, Page 1 of Google Images for "Bush"
is pretty much entirely anti-Bush:

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&q=bush&btnG=Search

Soooooo....for the Bush Campaign to try to
link Kerry to Hitler is very, very lame.
Unimaginative. And ignorant considering that
the Bush Family has a LONG history of dealing
with the Reich as well as the Bin Ladens!

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1006-08.htm

Excerpt:

The Bush family ties to the Nazi party are well known. In their 1994 Secret War Against the Jews, Mark Aarons and John Loftus use official US documents to establish that George Herbert Walker, George W. Bush's maternal great-grandfather, was one of Hitler's most important early backers. He funneled money to the rising young fascist through the Union Banking Corporation.

In 1926, Walker arranged to have his new son-in-law, Prescott Bush---father of President George Bush I, grandfather of George Bush II---hired as Vice President at W.A. Harriman and Company. Prescott became a senior partner when Harriman merged with a British-American investment company to become Brown Brothers Harriman. In 1934 Prescott Bush joined the Board of Directors of Union Banking.

The bank helped Hitler rise to power. It also helped him wage war. As late as July 31, 1941---well after the Nazi invasion of Poland---the U.S. government froze $3 million in Union Banking assets linked to Fritz Thyssen. Thyssen was noted in the American press as a "German industrialist and original backer of Adolph Hitler."

Loftus writes that Thyssen's "American friends in New York City [were] Prescott Bush and Herbert Walker, the father and father-in-law of a future President of the United States." That would be the current president's father, George Herbert Walker Bush, also the former CIA director.

On October 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of Nazi Germany's banking operations in New York City, which were under the direction of Prescott Bush. The government seized control of Union Banking Corporation under the Trading with the Enemy Act. The liquidation yielded a reported $750,000 apiece for Prescott Bush and George Herbert Walker. The book, The Splendid Blonde Beast: Money, Law and Genocide, goes into exhaustive detail on Bush-Harriman Nazi money laundering. More recently, Michael Kranish covers the same Bush-Nazi relationships in The Rise of the Bush Family Dynasty published in the Boston Globe. Loftus documents that "Prescott Bush knowingly served as a money launderer for the Nazis. Remember that Union Bank's books and accounts were frozen by the U.S. Alien Property Custodian in 1942 and not released back to the Bush family until 1951."

Often ignored are the Bush family's post-World War II dealings with former Nazis. John Foster Dulles, who had worked with the Bush family in the Harriman Company in laundering money for Nazi Germany, was Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of State. His brother Allen became CIA director.

As Martin Lee documents in The Beast Reawakens, American intelligence recruited numerous top Nazis to spy on the Soviets during the Cold War. Many established connections to the Bush family that had helped finance their original rise to power. In 1988 Project Censored, in its top award, noted "how the major mass media ignored, overlooked or undercovered at least ten critical stories reported in America's alternative press that raised serious questions about the Republican candidate, George Bush, dating from his reported role as a CIA 'asset' in 1963 to his presidential campaign's connection with a network of anti-Semites with Nazi and fascist affiliations in 1988." Investigative reporter Russ Bellant established ties between the Republican Party and former Axis Nazis and fascists.

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