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In reply to the discussion: Obama toasts Poppy Bush: 'We are surely a kinder and gentler nation because of you' [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)172. Poppy Bush: ''Let’s forgive the NAZI war criminals.''
President Bush was quoted as stating the above in The New York Times of April 14, 1990. Perhaps he appreciates their conservatism.
A Fresh Look
Nazis and the Republican Party
by Carla Binion
Investigative reporter Christopher Simpson says in BLOWBACK that after World War II, Nazi émigrés were
given CIA subsidies to build a far-right-wing power base in the U.S. These Nazis assumed prominent positions
in the Republican Party's "ethnic outreach committees." Simpson documents the fact that these Nazis did not
come to America as individuals but as part of organized groups with fascist political agendas. The Nazi agenda
did not die along with Adolf Hitler. It moved to America (or a part of it did) and joined the far right of the
Republican Party.
Simpson shows how the State Department and the CIA put high-ranking Nazis on the intelligence payroll "for
their expertise in propaganda and psychological warfare," among other purposes. The most important Nazi
employed by the U.S. was Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler's most senior eastern front military intelligence officer. After
Germany's defeat became certain, Gehlen offered the U.S. certain concessions in exchange for his own
protection. Gehlen promoted hyped up cold war propaganda on behalf of the political right in this country, and
helped shape U.S. perceptions of the cold war.
Journalist Russ Bellant (OLD NAZIS, THE NEW RIGHT, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY) shows that
Laszlo Pasztor, a convicted Nazi war collaborator, built the Republican émigré network. Pasztor, who served as
adviser to Republican Paul Weyrich, belonged to the Hungarian Arrow Cross, a group that helped liquidate
Hungary's Jews. Pasztor was founding chairman of the Republican Heritage Groups Council.
Two months before the November 1988 presidential election, a small newspaper, Washington Jewish Week,
disclosed that a coalition for the Bush campaign included a number of outspoken Nazis and anti-Semites. The
article prompted six leaders of Bush's coalition to resign.
According to Russ Bellant, Nazi collaborators involved in the Republican Party included:
1.Radi Slavoff, GOP Heritage Council's executive director, and head of "Bulgarians for Bush." Slavoff was a
member of a Bulgarian fascist group, and he put together an event in Washington honoring Holocaust
denier, Austin App.
2.Florian Galdau, director of GOP outreach efforts among Romanians, and head of "Romanians for Bush."
Galdau was once an Iron Guard recruiter, and he defended convicted Nazi war criminal Valerian Trifa.
3.Nicholas Nazarenko, leader of a Cossack GOP ethnic unit. Nazarenko was an ex-Waffen SS officer.
4.Method Balco, GOP activist. Balco organized yearly memorials for a Nazi puppet regime.
5.Walter Melianovich, head of the GOP's Byelorussian unit. Melianovich worked closely with many Nazi
groups.
6.Bohdan Fedorak, leader of "Ukrainians for Bush." Fedorak headed a Nazi group involved in anti-Jewish
wartime pogroms.
The Philadelphia Inquirer ran an article on the Bush team's inclusion of Nazis (David Lee Preston, "Fired Bush
backer one of several with possible Nazi links," September 10, 1988.) The newspaper also ran an investigative
series on Nazi members of the Bush coalition. The article confirmed that the Bush team included members
listed by Russ Bellant.
CONTINUED...
http://www.bartcop.com/nazigop.htm
Exactly warm and fuzzy. And the room keeps spinning and spinning. And I haven't touched a drop. And I can't wake up from this never-ending GOP nightmare.
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Obama toasts Poppy Bush: 'We are surely a kinder and gentler nation because of you' [View all]
Octafish
Jul 2013
OP
What a GREAT political family!! Thanks, Obama for leading the rehab of the BFEE!
chimpymustgo
Jul 2013
#6
This is more ass kissing then should be necessary in this case. It's total BS and disgusting.
SammyWinstonJack
Jul 2013
#132
I am sure that there will be plenty of people assuring us that Obama is still a dem
roguevalley
Jul 2013
#97
When historians 100 years from now go back and examine the record, they will
HardTimes99
Jul 2013
#45
COMCAST reads like Peggy Noonan. Wish they'd include Gary Trudeau for accuracy...
Octafish
Jul 2013
#28
Huh. I was expecting a line like "Right now, I know what most of you are thinking..."
Pholus
Jul 2013
#8
NSA whistleblower Russell Tice says NSA has monitored Barack Obama since 2004.
Octafish
Jul 2013
#187
Best Washington Times story ever, that has remained completely off the MS/public radar:
WinkyDink
Jul 2013
#158
that was Harold Ford with the coronation: Poppy just celebrated his birthdays n/t
MisterP
Jul 2013
#71
Never forget. I posted elsewhere how they've got their hooks on a large aquifer in SA.
WinkyDink
Jul 2013
#190
I don't recall Pruneface, Poppy or Smirko ever doing anything nice for Jimmy Carter.
Octafish
Jul 2013
#84
Can you point to some Republican President doing this for a former Democratic President?
sabrina 1
Jul 2013
#139
Who invited him there? He didn't just decide to drop in on the WH. These things are planned
sabrina 1
Jul 2013
#147
I guess he should have been polite but firm at what could be the old man's last visit to the WH
BeyondGeography
Jul 2013
#55
The old man belonged in jail after Iran Contra but he pardoned himself and all the convicted
sabrina 1
Jul 2013
#140
Wrong, there is not obligation to be 'gracious' to criminals who have nearly destroyed this country.
sabrina 1
Jul 2013
#144
Way more than a thousand points of light died in Central America due to the bastard's actions
n2doc
Jul 2013
#23
What you said. I can only think of Carlin right now. It's a big club and we're not in it n/t
Catherina
Jul 2013
#67
Way to give Jeb Bush, via his father, a boost in his planned run for the presidency!
Divernan
Jul 2013
#30
That's why I wish someone in the press would ask him about this FBI memo from Nov. 22, 1963...
Octafish
Jul 2013
#37
There is a 94 year old man in Minneapolis who has recently been accused of war crimes committed
dflprincess
Jul 2013
#122
And so on and so forth...the NWO ladies and gentlemen-maybe the Beast...?
bobthedrummer
Jul 2013
#33
And all love to you KoKo-you've been here forever too. I've been active in battlefield Wisconsin.
bobthedrummer
Jul 2013
#184
hearing this so soon after the Zimmerman verdict is probably like a kick in the teeth
quinnox
Jul 2013
#58
Ah Willie--- the Black Meat Puppet that Bush Inc used to mislead the now commonly
warrant46
Jul 2013
#113
How sickening. To think that this is what people worked so hard for, to help rehabilitate the
sabrina 1
Jul 2013
#66
Good post, Koko. They were afraid of OWS and the coordinated effort to try to crush them
sabrina 1
Jul 2013
#138
I've never seen an investigation of where the funds go for "1,000 Points of Light."
KoKo
Jul 2013
#115
The protocol for political diplomacy does not ever necessitate being gracious to fascists. nt
Zorra
Jul 2013
#129
You're entitled to your opinion. My opinion is that fascists are not entitled to respect.
Zorra
Jul 2013
#215
Context is everything. Juan Carlos is telling one democratic leader who is repeatedly interrupting
stevenleser
Jul 2013
#216
you want him to spit in the dying fuckers face? jesus christ people are off the rails...
dionysus
Jul 2013
#130
If Obama had been talking about HWB's signing of the ADA, what he said would be appropriate
suffragette
Jul 2013
#136
Can't wait to see the pictures of the Obamas relaxing at Kennebunkport!
kenny blankenship
Jul 2013
#137
What would you like the POTUS to say to a senile old man who likes rainbow socks?
Hekate
Jul 2013
#145
What was he supposed to say, it's called being polite and having class and dignity. nt
Raine
Jul 2013
#146
That tears it. It's as if Obama knows NOTHING ABOUT THE HISTORY HE FOLLOWED. Is he TRYING
WinkyDink
Jul 2013
#152
I agree with the sentiments expressed by former Spanish Socialist Prime Minister Zapatero in his
stevenleser
Jul 2013
#168
The folks behaving like that don't want a President who acts Presidential.
stevenleser
Jul 2013
#178
So, I control what DUers post? Like a puppet master? Ask anyone if I've told them what to post on DU
Octafish
Jul 2013
#194
"Kinder and gentler" to WHOM? Guatemala? Iraq? Oh, wait! Bechtel and Halliburton!
WinkyDink
Jul 2013
#181
"It's time for another Bush/Nazis thread" an OP of mine from August 19, 2003-kick
bobthedrummer
Jul 2013
#218