Bush strikes a nerve with great speech

Neville Chamberlain waves the useless scrap of paper that he "negotiated" with Hitler that gave the British "peace in our time." Yeah, that worked out well!

Those who forget the lessons of the past are doomed to repeat them. Such is Barak Obama's ridiculous, idealistic pap masquerading as a foreign policy. He actually suggested that he would sit down and meet with our enemies, who plot our destruction. As a typical liberal, he believes that negotiations can be fruitful. In the absence of a genuine desire for peace, this is ridiculous in the least.

The sparring began Monday at the CNN/YouTube debate, in which a viewer asked candidates if they would be willing to meet with leaders of Iran, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea -- whom the United States has called rogue leaders.

Obama said he would, adding "it is a disgrace that we have not spoken to them." He added: "The notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them -- which has been the guiding diplomatic principle of this administration -- is ridiculous."

Obama cited the diplomacy of late presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, who engaged the Soviet Union even as he called it the "evil empire."

Obama said one of his first orders of diplomacy in the Middle East would be to "send a signal that we need to talk to Iran and Syria because they're going to have responsibilities if Iraq collapses."

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Well, Bush called him on it yesterday in a speech to Israel's Knesset or parliament for those educated by the government school monopoly. Brilliantly.

In a speech to Israel's Knesset marking the 60th anniversary of that country's independence, Bush said, "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," Bush said. "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.' We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

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Of course, this has started a firestorm on the Left. How about this from John F---ing Kerry?

First, it's absolutely shameless that an American President would use a speech in front of a foreign government to launch such a petty political attack. President Bush has abused the dignity of the office in ways that make especially ironic his long ago pledge to "restore dignity and integrity to the Oval office."

Perhaps worse -- he's not even right on the facts, and he knows it. Like Representatives Boehner and Cantor, President Bush just makes up policies to attack. Barack Obama opposes negotiating with terrorists. And always has. This is just another example of the disingenuous habit of this administration to create "some people" whom they can argue against, strawman arguments that they can use in their disgusting political attacks.

Opposes negotiating? That's not what he said in the Youtube debate, Kerry. Last time I checked, Iran and Syria, not to mention Venezuela (see my next post on Hugo Chavez above) are state sponsors of terrorism, making them, ding-ding-ding:

TERRORISTS

Joe Biden continues this ridiculous non-response:

"He is the guy who has weakened us," he said. "He has increased the number of terrorists in the world. It is his policies that have produced this vulnerability that the U.S. has. It's his [own] intelligence community [that] has pointed this out, not me."

Biden noted that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have both suggested that the United States ought to find a way to talk more with its enemies.

"If he thinks this is appeasement, is he going to come back and fire his own cabinet?" Biden asked. "Is he going to fire Condi Rice?"

More pinko-commie, vaginal bastard wailing and nashing of teeth here. I love how they can dish out, but when the heat is directed in their direction, they sure as hell can't take it.