David Neiwert has a new, brief series up, ending here with links to earlier entries, on the Bush clan's dealings with the Nazis. The upshot: after carefully reviewing the evidence, he concludes the clan was in Nazi Germany up to their necks, but not for ideological reasons; they were just in it for the money. But also that in trying to profit by enabling the Nazis, they bear some moral responsibility for what the Nazis did whether they had it in mind themselves or not.

Given Neiwert's focus on our modern-day domestic loons, it should be no surprise that he draws parallels to mainstream Republicans' dealings with, say, our radical Christianist right. But the Bush family's very tight dealings with the Saudi ruling clan could be seen in the same light...