Bush quotes Republican who adored Hitler

President George W. Bush is getting mileage out of saying there were people who wanted to sit down with Hitler.

Well, according to Alex Koppelman of Salon.com, the person in question praised Hitler...and he was a Republican!

Let's see Bush explain this one!

"By the way, the quote Bush used about talking to Hitler was from Sen. William Borah, a Republican from Idaho. It has come into vogue recently, at least in part because of its use by conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer, who has employed it often over the past 20 years in writing about several other countries he saw as the next Nazi Germany; he used it, for example, to describe China in 1989 and North Korea in 1994. It's also stripped from some relevant context -- Borah wasn't saying that solely out of naiveté, as Bush, Krauthammer and others have implied. He was a prominent isolationist and an admirer of Hitler. In 1938, speaking of the German dictator, Borah said, "There are so many great sides to him." After Hitler occupied the Sudetenland, Borah said, "Gad, what a chance Hitler has! If he only moderates his religious and racial intolerance, he would take his place beside Charlemagne. He has taken Europe without firing a shot."

Roland S. Martin www.rolandsmartin.com CNN Contributor

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[nic]

No one in Bush's family has any place talking about "appeasement" of Nazis.
Google "Prescott Bush" to read about their personal Nazi connections...
Another example of American amnesia...a detail that should've haunted his father as well, but is instead known by relatively few, and ignored by most.

Bush and Hitler have more commonalities than differences, as far as I can see.

[Jody Gaddy]

Bush is bushman, a coward, a drunkard, who has never produced anything in his miserable life on this earth. Every business he managed flopped because he got no brain to do anything right. He was the best friend of the Yoruba war criminal called Obasanjo.

Obasanjo committed unspeakable atrocities and genocides against the black populations in Nigeria. Andrew Young is the best friend of Obasanjo. Bush and Andrew Young have one thing in common: They are self-serving animals like Obasanjo.

There is a well-documented book by a scholar, who claims that excellent and bad leaders come into the world scene during the same period in history. If you look at the historical figures, you will begin to see a pattern – the good leaders come out at the same time while the bad leaders also come out in the same period of time to rule their respective nations. Hitler, Mussolini, and Pinochet ruled in the same period. Bush, Obasanjo, and Saddam ruled in the same period.

Words have no meaning until somebody believes the words. Consider these words:

"There is a bomb inside this house, please evacuate immediately"

The above words are ONLY words until somebody believes them. Once you believe the words, they take on some meaning, and they begin to influence your behaviors, your actions, your fears, your expectations, etc, etc.

Words coming from Bush mean NOTHING to any RATIONAL human being in ANY part of the current world stage, because the man is a complete idiot. There are more rational Americans than irrational animals who think like Bush. If not, America would have been like Odua Jungles and Banana Republics by now.
McCain is becoming like Bush too. By the time this impending general election is over, McCain will be worse than Bush in the eyes of 99% of Americans. Mark my words here!

[Devita]

There has been nothing as well spoken (written) as this commentary from Larisa Alexandrovna!!! I strongly encourage everyone to read "All the President's Nazis (real and imagined): An Open Letter to Bush". Concise but thorough detail.

http://www.atlargely.com/2008/05/all-the-preside.html

[Angela]

I started wondering last night if Bush was setting McCain up to lose because the rational of his making this statement in Israel makes no sense to me, not that GW Bush really ever makes sense, and it seems as if McSame McCain took the bait. I remember a while back when Tucker Carlson had a show on MSNBC, and he debated Dr. Susan Rice on this topic. She put him to shame, and all he could do was concede.

I really think GW needs to stick to singing karaoke and dancing. That's about all he can do to get attention, what a buffoon. His staff is apparently just as "intelligent" as he, and that's not saying too much!

[Karen Lewis]

In regards to bush’s speech on israel soil…bush do you have the courage…to stand on american soil and repeat those words…how about at a special State of the Union speech… in front of GOD…all us american citizens…and the Congress…before going out the back door…of the white house…which is stamped Made in America…for the people and by the people…we americans are foreclosing on the policies…you have appeased to the very rich…you have appeased our jobs to other countries…you have appeased the blood of our brave soldiers to a lie…you have appeased our childrens food… with no thought to their hunger pains…you have appeased our childrens eduacation…with no child left behind…you have appeased the very principles…which give all americans hope…no no no bush…don’t call Barack Obama a appeaser…a appeaser is a sacrificer of principles…and a vote for Barack Obama…is a vote to restore hope…for the very principles…that have been sacrifed by your policies…we americans are standing on our american soil…our blood sweat and tears…is giving birth to the Republic for which…we americans all stand and pledge…one nation under GOD…indivisible…with LIBERTY and JUSTICE for ALL…

[simplycharming47 from Oklahoma City]

Bush has ZERO, ZILCH, NADA, NULL CREDIBILITY..

Google: Nazis In The Attic.. Oh and by the way, google how large of a part Wall Street, Standard Oil etc., contributed to the Holocaust succeeding. Just a bit of History "Dubya" forgot to mention about his BFF (best friends forever)..

simplycharming47

[Drevelyn Minor]

Obama slamed by President Bush was the proverbial "pot calling the kettle black"...~~~~~~~~~~

How “Bush's Grandfather Helped Hitler's Rise to Power” ~~~~~~~~
Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president ~~~~~~~~
Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington ~~~~~
The Guardian, ~~~~~~
Saturday September 25 2004 ~~~~~~
Article history ~~~~~~
About this article ~~~~~~~~
Close ~~~~~~~~~~
This article appeared in the Guardian on Saturday September 25 2004. ~~ It was last updated at 23:59 on September 24 2004. ~~~~~~~~~
George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. ~~~~
The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism. ~~~~~~~~
His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy. ~~~~~~~~~
The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy. ~~~~~~~~~~
The debate over Prescott Bush's behaviour has been bubbling under the surface for some time. There has been a steady internet chatter about the "Bush/Nazi" connection, much of it inaccurate and unfair. But the new documents, many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty ~~~~~~~~~~~~

There are a number of articles on the web regarding Grandfather Bush's' Hitler connection. I have no confirmation of evidence but the situation is thought. provoking. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A video explaining Bush's Grandfather Prescott Bush and his Nazi WWII affiliation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D6fxyOtVeI

~~~~~~~~~~~Obama for President!

[opek]

After using the Israeli Parliament as his launching ground for attacking Obama as a sympathizer for terrorists, Bush went to Saudi Arabia to beg for oil. Who bombed NY on 9/11? Is not true that 15 out of 19 9/11 terrorists were citizens of Saudi Arabia? Does Bush really hate terrorists or does he love their oil and pander to the Jews?

Bush should have begged Israel for more oil instead of begging the terrorists???????

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Saudis Rebuff Bush on Oil Output Request
By JENNIFER LOVEN, AP
2008-05-16 16:30:26

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (May 16) - Saudi Arabia's leaders made clear Friday they see no reason to increase oil production until customers demand it, apparently rebuffing President Bush amid soaring U.S. gasoline prices.

It was Bush's second personal appeal this year to King Abdullah, head of the monarchy that rules this desert kingdom that is a longtime prime U.S. ally and home to the world's largest oil reserves. But Saudi officials stuck to their position that they will only pump more oil into the system when asked to by buyers, something they say is not happening now, the president's national security adviser told reporters.

"Saudi Arabia does not have customers that are making requests for oil that they are not able to satisfy," Stephen Hadley said on a day when oil prices rose above $127 a barrel, a record high. "What the Saudis wanted to tell us was we're doing everything we can do ... to meet this problem, but it's a complicated problem."

The Saudi oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, announced that the kingdom decided on May 10 to raise production by 300,000 barrels at the request of customers, including the United States. He said that increase was sufficient.

"Supply and demand are in balance today," he told a news conference. "How much does Saudi Arabia need to do to satisfy people who are questioning our oil practices and policies?"

Bernard Picchi, an energy analyst at Wall Street Access, an independent research firm, said the 300,000-barrel Saudi production increase was "a token amount" that is not expected to have much impact on prices.

It would be different, he said, if Saudi Arabia boosted production by 1 million or 1.5 million barrels a day. The announced increase will have Saudi Arabia pumping 9.45 million barrels a day by June, Saudi officials said. That's about 2 million barrels below its capacity.

Oil prices advanced Friday as traders, unimpressed by efforts to boost supply, kept buying on the expectation that prices would keep setting new records.

Saudi Arabia often adjusts its output to meet demand, and the increase coincides with the start of the peak driving season in the U.S. "It's a way to raise production without raising production," said Phil Flynn, analyst at Alaron Trading Corp. "I think it was a way to save face."

Hadley never mentioned the Saudi's new production in his recap with reporters. He said the Saudis briefed Bush again on their plan to increase their production capacity over time. They also argued that even an increase would be unlikely to bring down the soaring prices, driven more by uncertainty in the market, lack of refining capacity for the type of oil readily available and other complicated dynamics, he said.

Economists say prices are being driven up by increased demand, not slowed production. Energy-guzzlers China and India are stretching supplies.

As a result, Hadley suggested the White House was satisfied with - or at least accepted - the Saudi response. He added, however, the Bush administration will see if the explanation "conforms to what our experts say."

Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said the discussion with Bush about oil was friendly. "He didn't punch any tables or shout at anybody," the minister said. "I think he was satisfied."

High energy costs are a major drain on the U.S. economy, which is experiencing a slowdown that some think is already a recession. At the pump, gas prices rose to a national average of $3.78 per gallon on Friday, according to a survey of stations by AAA and the Oil Price Information Service.

When Bush and Abdullah met in the kingdom in mid-January, the president also sought more Saudi output in a plea that also ultimately was for naught.

Iran was the other dominant topic of Bush's overnight visit with the king.

The two shared a concern over the recent violence in Lebanon, where Hezbollah overran Beirut neighborhoods last week in protest of measures aimed at the group by the country's government. The display of military power by the Shiite militant group, which the U.S. considers a terrorist organization, resulted in the worst internal fighting since the end of Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war.

With Shiite-dominated Iran backing Hezbollah, Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia - eager to stop any advance of regional power by Tehran - joins the West in supporting Lebanon's government. Hadley said Bush and Abdullah shared a concern that the recent events would "embolden Iran." The U.S. and Saudi Arabia, he said, "are of one mind in condemning what Hezbollah did."

On Thursday, Hezbollah and the government reached a deal to end the violence after Lebanon's Cabinet reversed measures aimed at reining in the militants.

Bush's Saudi stop was intended, in part, to celebrate 75 years of formal U.S.-Saudi relations and strengthen ties that, once strong, have frayed over the perception Washington favors Israel too much in the dispute with the Palestinians, the Iraq war and the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Fifteen of the 19 airline hijackers were Saudis, and Americans blamed Saudis for allowing the religious extremism that gave rise to them, an accusation that stings here.

Bush was spending the day with Abdullah at his lavish farm complex outside Riyadh, talking mostly out of public view over multiple tea services and meals. Abdullah greeted Bush warmly at the airport, and rode with him in his limousine out into the desert.

The White House hoped that new agreements formalized during Bush's visit would give the relationship a boost.

Among them was an agreement for the U.S. to assist the kingdom in developing civilian nuclear power. Another agreement involves U.S. promises to help protect any Saudi nuclear infrastructure with training, the exchange of experts "and other support services as needed." Hadley said it would not involve U.S. troops.

But the rising price of oil commanded attention.

When Bush first ran for president in 2000, he criticized the Clinton administration for high fuel prices and said the president must "jawbone" oil producing nations and persuade them to drop rates. At that time, oil was nearing $28 a barrel - less than a quarter what it is now.

Bush's visit comes two days after Congress voted to temporarily halt daily shipments of 70,000 barrels of oil to the nation's emergency reserve.

After Bush's talks on Friday, his administration announced in Washington that it has canceled oil shipments into the reserve beginning in July, when the current purchase contract expires. Bush has refused to stop pouring oil into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, saying the stockpile was meant for emergencies and that halting the shipments would have little or no impact on gasoline or crude oil prices.

[opek]

Bush, Jews, and 9/11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n-nT-luFIw

[opek]

This speech was pre-planned by Hagee, McCain, Bush, and Republicans.
I doubt if they will succeed this time to deceive the American people.

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Hagee's Lesson Plan for Bush's Appeasement Speech
Sarah Posner
Posted May 16, 2008

Hagee claims in Jerusalem Countdown that an Israeli government insider came to him in April 2005 with "warning to the world" that the President of Iran "will prove to be the new Hitler of the Middle East." This information compelled him, he says, to write the book and launch CUFI. His standard talking point since CUFI's launch has been "It's 1938, and Iran is Germany, and Ahmadinejad is the new Hitler of the Middle East."

In the summer of 2006, when war raged between Israel and Hezbollah, and McCain took to the airwaves to suggest we had entered into World War III, one of Hagee's friends in the Knesset, Benny Elon, said McCain got that idea straight from Hagee.

But the appeasers, Hagee goes on, don't just want to appease Iran:

Beyond that threat from Iran there's another more subtle threat that concerns me. I am concerned that in the coming months yet another attempt will be made to parcel out parts of Israel in a futile effort to appease Israel's enemies in the Middle East. I believe that misguided souls in Europe, I believe that the misguided souls in the political brothel that is now the United Nations and sadly -- and sadly even our own State Department will try once again to turn Israel into crocodile food. Winston Churchill said and I quote an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile in the futile hope that it will eat him last -- end of quote. In 1938 Czechoslovakia -- Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland land was turned into crocodile food for Nazi Germany. The Nazi beast smelled the weakness in the appeasers, ate the food and marched and devoured most of Europe and systematically slaughtered 6,000,000 Jewish people. We are again hearing calls to appease the enemies of Israel.

McCain compared himself to Churchill -- although without, as Bush did, explicitly comparing his opponents to Chamberlain -- in a creepy March 2008 ad. For Hagee, he's right on target, and there's no secret about who's in his crosshairs.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-posner/hagees-lesson-plan-for-bu_b_102101.html

[opek]

Those who believe in lies, deaths, and wars as the only ways of winning elections and grabbing power will soon be exposed for what they are. McCain will not go anywhere near the white house if he believes that this kind of fear-mongering will get him anywhere. The battle line for fierce propaganda has been drawn. We shall see who has more brains and more damaging info to win this year.

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"Appeasement": Guilt-By-Analogy... When Guilt-By-Association Isn't Enough
By Mark Green
Posted May 16, 2008

I was the split-screen bystander on Hardball last night when Chris Matthews exposed Kevin James as the quintessential right wing slandering bloviator.

James was of course pathetic but his -- and Bush's and McCain's -- strategies aren't so funny. Basically, when you've lost an argument because facts and history aren't on your side, resort to unprovable guilt-by-association or, as in appeasement, guilt-by-analogy.

It was bad enough when McCain tried to link Hamas and Obama because Hamas said it preferred Obama. And if the Klan endorsed McCain because he wasn't the black guy, would McCain have a problem if someone said that McCain and the Klan are one and the same?

Then Bush makes his instantly famous appeasement attack at the Knesset on Obama. We've seen this movie before. Whenever conservatives can't win an argument on the merits, they attack some real or perceived enemy as Hitler. So Ho Chi Mihn was Hitler. bin Ladin was Hitler. Ahmadinejad was Hitler. Of course Hussein was Hitler. And anyone who does something to try to resolve conflict short of more war is Neville Chamberlain.

Beyond the fact that Mr. President 28% has next-to-credibility on much of anything, least of all in the Middle East, the attack on Obama is ridiculous.

As the late PM Yitzhak Rabin famously said, you negotiate not with your friends but your enemies. Was Israel -- with far more experience and its survival at stake in dealing with war and terrorism -- wrong to neogtiate with former enemy Egypt, with successful result...wrong to negotiate with former enemy Jordan, with successful result... now wrong to talk to Syria about peace in exchange for the Golan? Churchill rightly understood that at times of potential or actual conflict, it was better to "jaw jaw than war war."

Given where Bush's ready-fire-aim approach has gotten us in Iraq, it's good for the next president to pursue a strategy of common security when it comes to such inter-border problems as terrorism, pollution, AIDS and nuclear proliferation. Bush and McCain's military-first impulse has proven a calamity for America and the world because, to quote even a momentarily cogent Don Rumsfeld, "we can't kill them all."

Take Iran and Ahmadinejad, the newest "Hitler." Iran can't stop laughing at Bush's foreign policy. He attacks its long-time enemy Iraq, allowing Iran's Shia majority to have far more influence in a Shia-majority Iraqi government. And Bush at the same time provides an unpopular Iranian government with a convenient outside enemy to rally nationalistic support to its side. Which is why Secretary Robert Gates himself has advocated talking more to Iran. What an appeaser!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-green/appeasement-guilt-by-anal_b_102118.html

[Jon M]

"Gad, what a chance Hitler has! If he only moderates his religious and racial intolerance, he would take his place beside Charlemagne. He has taken Europe without firing a shot."

Sen. Borah might have been a Republican 70 years ago, but today he would be a speech-writer for Obama. Kind of like the anti-Communist, tax-cutting for the rich, small government, war-monger JFK is claimed as a Democrat. JFK would be a ditto-head if alive today.

[Taiji]

"Bush should have begged Israel for more oil instead of begging the terrorists???????"

Israel has no oil to send to America. They can only send hate and wars to the world.

[Angelicana]

"Israel has no oil to send to America. They can only send hate and wars to the world."

Those people in Israel are the only problem killing the entire world. They hold our politicians as their hostages.

If America ends support of Israel today, Arabs will wipe them out in hearthbeat.

[sdzx]

Americans, especially republicans and uneducated whites, are in a bubble of ignorance. These people will do anything to sound tough and to try to win another election. Even McShame is ignorant and hateful and full of cow dense.

Listen to James Baker, the former Secretary of State under senior Bush:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYC3jVaDDEg