Homeland Security's Freudian Slip
by Robert Lederman

robert.lederman@worldnet.att.net
http://baltech.org/lederman/

Sometimes the truth has a way of coming out in the most embarrassing and 
unexpected ways. If the President's newly created Office of Homeland 
Security sounds to you a bit reminiscent of propaganda from Nazi Germany, 
youre not alone in that suspicion.

According to the Washington Times (one of President Bush's strongest 
defenders among U.S. newspapers-see below), Texas Homeland Security chief 
David Dewhurst claims it was an error when an ad he commissioned in support 
of the Office of Homeland Security featured a Luftwaffle officer. 

Was this a bizarre mistake, a Freudian slip or a rare moment of candor from 
the Bush administration? Considering that Bushs grandfathers made their 
fortune on Wall Street managing banks and shipping companies the U.S. 
government seized in 1942 as fronts for the Nazis, it may have been all three.

Former President Bush had his own embarrassing moments involving Nazis, 
including one that almost lost him the Presidency when a number of former SS 
officers were found to be high-ranking operatives in his Presidential 
campaign. Nor has GW been free of Nazi taint.

The right-wing think tank he claims is second only to the bible in its 
influence on his ideas, the Manhattan Institute, has numerous links to 
eugenics, Nazis and Nazi sympathizers. Its founder, former CIA chief William 
Casey, helped bring thousands of former SS officers to the U.S. following WWII.

For numerous articles links and documentation on the Bush-Nazi connection 
see http://baltech.org/lederman/

WASHINGTON TIMES

October 29, 2001

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20011029-24603150.htm

Political ad is uniformly embarrassing 

By Hugh Aynesworth

DALLAS Texas homeland security chief David Dewhurst wanted Texans to feel 
confident in these trying times and as a Republican candidate for 
lieutenant governor wanted Texans to know he was taking his new 
anti-terrorism job seriously. 

So he purchased a full-color, four-page advertisement in Texas Monthly 
magazine a few days ago.

The ad layout has received far more comment than any similar effort in 
recent history  but perhaps for all the wrong reasons.

In the ad, a military officer is depicted standing in front of an unfurled 
American flag, with the caption, "As chairman of the Governor's Task Force 
on Homeland Security, David Dewhurst encourages you to support President 
Bush and the brave men and woman of our Armed Forces as they fight to 
eliminate terrorism and work to restore confidence in our economy."

Within hours of the magazine's hitting the streets last week, the Dewhurst 
campaign became inundated with calls some angry, some joking  informing 
the state land commissioner that the officer in the photograph was not an 
American general, but was clearly a German Luftwaffe officer  complete with 
military decorations, insignias and a name tag bearing the German flag.

Early in the week, a stunned Mr. Dewhurst, 56, conceded he had examined the 
ad "a couple times" before OK'ing it but later he and his staff placed blame 
on the advertising agency that prepared the ad.

"When I had asked for a picture of an American soldier against the flag," he 
said Friday, "our graphics consultant made a mistake. The ad agency and the 
graphics consultant won't be doing further work for us."

Predictably, Democrats jumped all over the situation  not only making fun 
of the faux pas, but complaining that Mr. Dewhurst was using his new 
assignment as home security head for political advantage.

"The ink wasn't dry yet on the appointment when he was sending out political 
brochure copy to the print shop," said Kelly Fero, who is directing a 
coordinated state Democratic campaign.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry named Mr. Dewhurst to coordinate the state's 
anti-terrorism efforts earlier this month.

"It's pretty scary that the man Rick Perry has put in charge of homeland 
security doesn't know the difference between an Air Force uniform and a 
German uniform," snapped Democrat state Chairwoman Molly Beth Malcolm at an 
Austin party meeting Saturday.

Friday, with strong backing from Mr. Perry, Mr. Dewhurst defended his 
political ad  saying maybe he should not have stressed his new role, but 
solidly standing behind his expressed sentiments of supporting the president 
and the armed forces.

"If I had it do to over again," said the former Houston businessman and 
one-time Air Force officer and CIA agent, "I would have said the same words. 
I might not have said 'as chairman of the Governor's Task Force on Homeland 
Security.'"

Mr. Dewhurst said that at political gatherings people asked him about 
security issues and that he intended to continue to mention his state task 
force assignment. "Not in a way that politicizes what I'm doing for the 
state," he added. "I make a point of saying: 'All right, we've stopped 
talking about politics. We're going to talk about a state issue, and let me 
tell you what my thoughts are.'

"I didn't find anything out of the ordinary about saying 'Here's what I'm 
doing; here's what makes me qualified to lead you,'" said Mr. Dewhurst. 

BOSTON GLOBE 4/23/2001

TRIUMPHS, TROUBLES SHAPE GENERATIONS

PRESCOTT BUSH PAVED MODERATE PATH FOR SON AND GRANDSON; 

WOUNDED BY FRIEND'S BETRAYAL, HE PUT HIGH PRICE ON LOYALTY

Author: By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff Date: 04/23/2001 Page: A1 Section: 
National/Foreign 

AN AMERICAN DYNASTY

Prescott Bush was surely aghast at a sensational article the New York 
Herald Tribune splashed on its front page in July 1942.

"Hitler's Angel Has 3 Million in US Bank," read the headline above a story 
reporting that Adolf Hitler's financier had stowed the fortune in Union 
Banking Corp., possibly to be held for "Nazi bigwigs."

Bush knew all about the New York bank: He was one of its seven directors. If 
the Nazi tie became known, it would be a potential "embarrassment," Bush and 
his partners at Brown Brothers Harriman worried, explaining to government 
regulators that their position was merely an unpaid courtesy for a client. 
The situation grew more serious when the government seized Union's assets 
under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the sort of action that could have 
ruined Bush's political dreams.

"The Bush family fortune came from the Third Reich." 
- John Loftus, former US Justice Dept. Nazi War Crimes investigator 
and President of the Florida Holocaust Museum quoted in the Sarasota 
Herald-Tribune 11/11/2000 
http://www.newscoast.com/headlinesstory2.cfm?ID=35115

4/14/1990 New York Times quotes President George Bush as stating, 
"Lets forgive the Nazi war criminals." 

http://www.jewishxpress.com/nazisinbushs1988campaing/

Philadelphia Inquirer 9/10/98 David Lee Preston, "Fired Bush backer one of 
several with possible Nazi links," 9/10/98; Washington Post articles by Jack 
Anderson on Nixon/Nazi connection Nov 1971 including Nixon Appears a Little 
Soft on Nazis; GOP's Open Door, Who's Coming In? Washington Post 9/21/71 by 
Peter Baestrup, The Secret War Against the Jews, by John Loftus and Russ 
Bellant's, Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican Party.