McCain Dined With Nazi-Friendly Council For World Freedom

7:29 pm EST October 7th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

This makes the recent Reichstag flavor to Mccain/Palin’s recent rallies make some more sense.

Now we’ve gotten a hold of another fun little nugget that shows how whacked out this group really is: A newsletter from the group from July 1985 that lashed out at people who criticized Ronald Reagan for visiting the Bitburg cemetery in Germany, which includes the graves of members of the SS.

The Reagan visit was widely controversial among Jews, but the Council newsletter — which you can view right here — was less than charitable towards Reagan’s Jewish critics.

‘Those misguided souls who accused President Reagan of insensitivity for visiting the German cemetery at Bitburg are wallowing in tears of pity over the past crimes of the Nazi regime which collapsed over 40 years ago,’ the newsletter said. ‘They claim they want to keep the memory of the holocaust alive so that it can never happen again.’

‘Crocodile tears! It is happening again,’ the newsletter continues, ‘and again, and again, right now, in the modern world; only the crimes of today are not being perpetrated by the Nazis but by their philosophical and demoniacal soulmates, the communists.’

McCain reportedly was still associating with the group a few months later: A States News Service article from October 15, 1985, found via Nexis, confirms that McCain was on hand at a Council awards dinner.

McCain told the AP that he resigned the group’s advisory board in 1984, and eventually asked to have his name removed from the letterhead. But the State News Service article places him at a group dinner a year later.