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Simple! Bush owned 1 share of stock in Brown Brothers and he started work there in 1942 and they stopped doing business with the nazi's in 1939, as the German company head was imprisoned by Hitler by then . . . .
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Um - no -- he was on the board
Again, UBC was cited for violating the Trading with the Enemy Act in 1942.
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. . . Not to mention Jack Kennedy did vastly more business in Germany then. Do you want to call Ted Kennedy on the carpet for what his father may have done?
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I do not now and have not ever called W out for Prescott's actions. W is in no way responsible for them. Moreover, I readily agree all US companies helped re-arm Germany and there was nothing illegal about it, save for UBC's actions noted above. I merely said
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Of course and as an aside, W has a special connection to Nazi Germany as his GrandPappy Prescott Sheldon Bush collaborated with the Nazis before war broke out and through the year after Pearl Harbor ( http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0925-01.htm ) They made lots of money that way. Who hated America then, much less the poor Jews?
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That is true, W does have a special connection. I never said he was to blame for it.
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Even if everything you said is true, how is it relevent
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That is why I said "as an aside"
pay attention
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Besides, quoting the British is quite reliable, huh?! The people who deny the existence of Winston Churchill, but think Sherlock Holmes was a real person. The Guardian also published 9/11 conspiracy theories as news. They believe Bush was behind Al Queda. I'll take my news from sources that don't deserve straight-jackets, thank you.
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Once again, you concentrate too much on the actual sources and not the quotes in it, which, again, usually is why I cite them. In other words, it is more succinct.