Bush suggests Obama wants 'appeasement' of terrorists
Bush is using his "some people say" technique to smear the Democrats again, this time aiming at - without directly naming - Barack Obama."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," Bush said at Israel's 60th anniversary celebration in Jerusalem.
Notice how he conflates terrorists and radicals as if both are one and the same. This is an utter sleight of hand which allows him to equate negotiating with Iran as equal to negotiating with Hamas or al Qaeda. Obama has said that he will negotiate with Ahmadinejad but that he would not negotiate with Hamas. Personally I think he's wrong in the latter instance as Hamas were the elected representatives of the Palestinian people, but that's hardly relevant. What is relevant is that Bush is once again attempting to make negotiating with sovereign states, which he disapproves of, equivalent to negotiating with terrorist groups. What a little shit this man is. He then, wait for it, brings up WWII and appeasement. Were he a blogger the world would simply type back, "Godwin's Law".
Obama's campaign have responded:"We have heard this foolish delusion before," Bush said in remarks to Israel's parliament, the Knesset. "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."
The remarks seemed to be a not-so-subtle attempt to continue to raise doubts about Obama with Jewish Americans. Those doubts were earlier stoked by Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee in the 2008 presidential election, when he recently charged that Obama is the favored candidate of the Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas, which the U.S. government has listed as a terrorist group.
The entire speech and the way it weaves Iran and Hamas together is simply an exercise in duplicity. Bush's administration have already held talks with Iran and Obama has made clear that he does not favour negotiations with Hamas and yet Bush makes this speech which implies the opposite. He then repeats the lie that Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" which lets us know that he knows that he's lying. I simply do not believe that the President of the United States has not been told by now that the translation he is talking about is false."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 a statement released to CNN by his campaign. "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…."
"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," Obama's statement said.
Obama favors "tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions," according to his Web site, "and is willing to meet with the leaders of all nations, friend and foe." He does not favor talks with Hamas, which he has called a terrorist organization.
The Bush administration held three rounds of discussions with Iran about security in Iraq last year, including two at the ambassadorial level, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates Wednesday said Washington needed to "figure out a way to develop some leverage … and then sit down and talk with" Iran.
This is why Obama keeps saying that the US needs a new kind of politics. The sooner the present Liar in Chief is replaced, the better.
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