Tarpley/Chaitkin material about Bush ties to Nazis

[Bill Millard]

Ahoy, Pynchers:

Doug Millison forwarded some alarming material from 

> George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography --- by Webster G. Tarpley & 
> Anton Chaitkin

Hmmm.  This is one of several books & kabillions of articles, online 
postings, etc. with documentation of Bush-Nazi ties.  As that creepy 
family is in the process of stealing the presidency, installing a 
known halfwit with a criminal record as figurehead-in-chief, and 
probably placing all of us in severe peril, it's suddenly a lot more 
important for the truth about the Bushes' history to be better known. 
Can anybody here offer informed views on the credibility of Tarpley & 
Chaitkin's info?

As a web search with terms like "prescott bush nazi germany thyssen" 
quickly makes clear, an obvious problem here is that some of these 
documents come from the paranoid-conspiratorialist fringe -- people 
who believe all sorts of dark stuff about Rockefellers, Illuminati, 
the Trilateral Commission, Skull & Bones, and so forth.  Maybe 
everything *is* connected after all, but maybe only some things are 
connected in meaningful ways, and other things are truly random; 
surely discerning Pynchonologists, aware of the concepts of paranoia 
and antiparanoia, can appreciate that. 

Distinguishing between true scary things and scary things that are 
fun to believe but not verifiably true is critical here.  I'm fully 
prepared to believe the worst about the Bushes (including their 
possible effort to manipulate contemporary geopolitical events in the 
name of their own wacko belief systems), provided it's logically 
coherent and supported by evidence.  This shit's serious, in other 
words.  Thinking in an adolescent manner about it makes it easy for 
Them to continue marginalizing & discrediting anyone who tries to 
expose Their history, but thinking in an adult manner about it could 
lead to the dissemination of information that actually makes a 
difference in the world (Woodward & Bernstein being the obvious 
precedent).  

Adult thinking: discovering, with the rigor and seriousness of the 
professional historian or journalist whose independent judgment 
hasn't been bought by corporate power or clouded by conspiratorialist 
hoo-hah, whether Prescott Bush and George Herbert Walker were in fact 
Nazi sympathizers and collaborators, leaving a legacy that calls 
their descendants' actions into serious question.

Adolescent thinking: picking up some odd details, e.g. Skull & Bones 
lore involving the allegedly mystical number 322 (see one of Ron 
Rosenbaum's articles on these idiots, 
http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/story.asp?ID=2943), and then watching 
the election returns to see whether GWB might squeak into office by a 
322-vote margin, and then trying to link it up to some mystical X-
file-ish horseshit out of Nostradamus.

I'm not an investigative journalist or historian myself, and I claim 
no qualifications to evaluate this stuff, other than a basic 
skepticism toward both extremes of official sanitized versions of 
history and grassy-knoll conspiratorialism.  I suspect that some 
people on this list are in a position to offer useful commentary on 
this material, so can anyone comment on a few of the more credible-
looking sources that repeat the Tarpley/Chaitkin claims?  Just to put 
two examples into play, what does anyone know about Russell S. Bowen, 
_The Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime Family Exposed_ (America 
West, 1992); and John Loftus & Mark Aarons, _The Secret War against 
the Jews_ (St. Martin's, 1994)?  Does anyone here have info that 
deserves wider circulation?

Cheers, folks... and pray, if you have anything to pray to, for this 
big strange troubled republic.

--Bill Millard


Bill Millard, Ph.D., Senior Editor, Strategic Communications Group
Office of Strategic Initiatives, Columbia University
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