Another American hero dishonored by George Bush....

[rfranklin]

Fred Mayer is a German-born American Jew who returned to Nazi Germany in 1945 as a spy for the OSS. He posed as a German officer in Innsbruck but was arrested by the Gestapo. They took him to their headquarters and tortured him. They beat him with a rawhide whip while he was tied up in a fetal position. They dunked his head in a bucket of water. "I thought I was drowning," Mayer said.

When he feared he was about to die he was taken to meet a high Nazi official named Franz Hofer. Much to Mayer's surprise, Hofer wanted to negotiate a surrender. It was Mayer who rode in the staff car as Hofer surrendered to the Seventh Army.

Later, the Nazi responsible for Mayer's torture was captured. Mayer was asked if he wanted to see the prisoner and said yes. Telling the story later, he said that he had thoughts of getting a few licks in. The Nazi, cowering in the cell, begged, "Do what you want to me, but don't hurt my family!"

Mayer felt the anger drain from his body. He looked at the Nazi and said, "What do you think we are, Nazis?"

This is the heritage that George Bush has betrayed. It is the honor that he has besmirched by bragging in his "autobiography" that he waterboarded people to get revenge. What a putz!

[baldguy]

1. And that's why I have no problem comparing Bush to Hitler.

[Swede]

2. K&R

[COLGATE4]

3. Fred Mayer is a true, GENUINE American hero - unlike the juvenile

masturbatory fantasies of Little Lord Pissy-Pants as he sent thousands of our best and brightest young men and women to their deaths in two unnecessary wars.

[JohnnyK]

4. How did we vote him into two terms?

[avaistheone1]

5. We didn't.

Both were stolen in some form.