Bush Family in Bed With Hitler?

The Guardian in London has a nice, juicy story about Dubya's grandfather Prescott Bush and how he had business dealings with the Nazis -- including the businessman that literally funded Hitler's rise to power -- and continued with those business dealings even AFTER Pearl Harbor. No wonder Bush doesn't think it's a big deal Cheney did business with Iraq through Halliburton even though it was against US law.

The allegations have been around for a while but now numerous documents recently declassified have buttressed the case. Prescott Bush's actions were so bad that assets of the company he served as a director on were seized by the US government...

"...in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act [and] 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."

That's right. Bush is being sued by survivors of Auschwitz (!)because they say his family profited from the death camps. The Guardian also suggests that one reason Bush backtracked on Clinton's support of the World Court was because his family could be dragged in front of it!

"...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, [Prescott Bush] 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."

If we wrote it as fiction, you'd say it was crazy and over-the-top -- Bush's family doing business with the Nazis even AFTER Pearl Harbor? No one is that cynical and cruel.