May 15 2008

Breaking: Bush Calls His Own Sec. of Defense a “Nazi Appeaser” regarding Iran

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was quoted just yesterday as saying of Iran, “We need to figure out a way to develop some leverage and then sit down and talk with them.”

In his speech, Bush said, “…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….

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.”

(Of course he was trying to accuse Obama and the Dems, but you know our George! Go support this diary at Dkos! Action Diary: Call on your Senator to Censure Bush)

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  2. … with Obama’s response:

    It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel’s independence to launch a false political attack,” Obama said in the statement his aides distributed. “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

    (found on DK’s front page)

    Yawn.  The AP story is egregiously horrible, as well.

    Sick of politic-talk when dealing with monsters.  Sad?  I think it’s a bit more than sad.

    • robodd on May 15, 2008 at 20:00
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    There is a famous truism that politics ends at the waters’ edge. George W. Bush trampled that much trumpeted principle to engage in a vile McCarthyistic attack on Barack Obama before the Israeli Knesset.

    Not only is George W. Bush the worst President in history, he is the most tasteless and disgusting.



    What a shameful episode for our Nation that this travesty of a President was elected to the highest office in our land. He will always remain a stain in our history.

    http://www.talkleft.com/story/…

    • brobin on May 15, 2008 at 20:34
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    It just makes Republicans look MORE stupid than usual and causes the hate radio jocks to have to bend over backwards trying to prop the maroon up again.

    Keep up the chatter, Bushie.  

    Hey, batter, batter, batter, SWING!

  5. Look at the setting for this unbelievably distasteful attack.  The idea was to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Israel.  So, of course, Codpiece McFlyboy, whose family knows a lot about being in bed with Hitler (Prescott Bush, are you listening?), decides to insult those listening (who knows more about the consequences of this is particular historical analogy than those in the Knesset?) and launch a political attack Obama.  Only problem, talking to one’s adversary isn’t really “appeasement.”  It’s called diplomacy or negotiation or discussion.  It’s what Bush did with Qaddafi (and hasn’t done since)  So now what can he, who thinks his legacy involves pease in the MidEast say to those involved in the I/P conflict to encourage discussion?  Nothing.  He’s blown it. They’ll all say, “We cannot talk to the other side that’s tantamount, as you yourself have pointed out, to appeasing them.”  Thanks, dickhead.

  6. the Senator Bush quoted was a Republican.

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