Bush Family Helps Hitler. Big Deal.

Published on Saturday, September 25, 2004 by the Guardian/UK How Bush's Grandfather Helped Hitler's Rise to Power Rumors 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. by Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington 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 laborers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy....

Guys, guys. This kind of stuff makes Kerry look like he's scraping the bottom of the political smear barrel. We've been rolling for a while now with effective stories about how George H.W. Bush helped with his son's "rise to power" with primo sissy-assignments in the Air National Guard, etc. Why can't we focus on that?