President Bush is in Isreal speaking to Knesset and had this to say,
“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” the President said to the country’s legislative body, “We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is –- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”
There is nothing I can say to make that any better.
And of course, the democrats are having a hissy fit over this.
Obama replied with,
“It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 6Oth anniversary of Israel’s independence to launch a false political attack. It is time to turn the page on eight years of policies that have strengthened Iran and failed to secure America or our ally Israel. Instead of tough talk and no action, we need to do what Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan did and use all elements of American power — including tough, principled, and direct diplomacy – to pressure countries like Iran and Syria. George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the President’s extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel.”
Nancy Pelosi says that the comments by Bush were “beneath the dignity of the office of the president and unworthy of our representation.” And the great Joe Biden said, “This is bullshit, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset … and make this kind of ridiculous statement.”
Amazing, recalling history and speaking the truth (that appeasement doesn’t work) is now considered “ridiculous.” Why are the democrats so pissy over this? Because they think Bush was attacking Obama with this statement.
*Update* The White House press secretary Dana Perino, completely burns Obama with this,
“I understand when you’re running for office you sometimes think the world revolves around you. That is not always true. And it is not true in this case.”
