Obama says Bush falsely accuses him of appeasement

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON - Democrat Barack Obama accused President Bush on Thursday of launching a "false political attack" with a comment about appeasing dictators.

The Democratic presidential candidate interpreted the remark as a slam against him but the White House denied that the comment was in any way directed at Obama.

In a speech to Israel's Knesset, Bush said that "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 ... We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

Responding with a statement, the Obama campaign seized on Bush's remarks even as it was unclear to whom Bush was referring.

"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," Obama said in the statement. "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."

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. *'s grandfather was the original appeaser of the Nazis.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

I just love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning.

[DinahMoeHum]

2. W's grandfather was a FASCIST PIG who did business with Nazis.

He is not in a position to tell ANYBODY who to negotiate with. Or not to.

:nuke:

[yurbud]

3. Bush is talking about tiny countries with no means to invade and occupy us

[grasswire]

4. We have an obligation to call you what you are, Mr. Bush.

A traitor. A murderer. A terroist. A betrayer. A thief.

And so's your old man.

[katty]

5. bush's grandaddy was practically on theNazi payroll$$

lots of dealings with that horrific crowd

[DRoseDARs]

6. "...even as it was unclear to whom Bush was referring." Bullshit, Bush's aids have admitted Obama.

Even Sen. Lieberman chimed in to attack Obama by agreeing with Lord Pissypants' reckless comment.

[katty]

7. this is all they have left to do-They keep losing, losing, losing

the public. A truly disgusting bunch.

[Miss Authoritiva]

8. So that's who Dubya was referring to...

...in his speech to the Knesset: Prescott Bush

Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: "Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided."

Makes sense. There are only three reasons why Bush would avoid actually naming the senator: (1) he doesn't exist, (2) he existed but he was a Republican, and (3) he existed but he was a Republican named Prescott Bush.