All the President's Nazis (Real and Imagined)

by moonwolf | May 16, 2008 at 11:52 am | 181 views | add comment

TheScroogeReport: Photojournalists Capture Distorted Bush

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Larisa Alexandrovna, a Jew whose family was murdered during The Holocaust eloquently takes George Bush to task in this open letter for using that horror for political gain at home during his speech to Israel's Knesset, and for his family's deep financial and social connections to the Nazis, the very people who perpetrated that crime on her family. For most Americans who are unaware of the facts, this history lesson about the Bush family and their support for Hitler may be very disturbing. After you have read this you will not fail to understand her righteous anger at George Bush's callous affront to all those who died in the death camps and their relatives living today.

OPINION: Dear Mr. Bush,

Your speech on the Knesset floor today was not only a disgrace; it was nothing short of treachery. Worse still, your exploitation of the Holocaust in a country carved out of the wounds of that very crime, in order to strike a low blow at American citizens whose politics differs from your own is unforgivable and unpardonable. Let me remind you, Mr. Bush, of your words today:

"Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along," Bush said at Israel's 60th anniversary celebration in Jerusalem.

"We have heard this foolish delusion before," Bush said in remarks to Israel's parliament, the Knesset. "As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."