Posted on 05/15/2008 2:08:12 PM PDT by Neville Chamberlain
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Democrats on Thursday condemned President Bush's insinuation that they would be appeasing terrorist states by holding talks, with one going so far as to call his remarks "bulls**t."
Joe Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that if the president disagrees so strongly with the idea of talking to Iran, then he needs to fire his secretaries of state and defense, both of whom Biden said have pushed to sit down with the Iranians. "This is bulls**t. This is malarkey. This is outrageous. Outrageous for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, sit in the Knesset ... and make this kind of ridiculous statement," he said.
The president, at Israel's 60th anniversary celebration in Jerusalem, suggested that some Democrats were acting in the same way some Western leaders did when they appeased Hitler in the runup to World War II.
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Wolf,
1) I appreciate you throwing McCain’s quotes at Kerry in an effort to be fair and balanced but if all the hubbub is about the questions posed in Bush’s speech, how about at least asking the indignant Dems to answer the actual questions that spurred them to launch their coordinated attack in defense of appeasement?
2) Is it foolish delusion to claim that talking with terrorists will result in peace?
3) Should we negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along?
4) Aren‘t you saying like that Senator back in 1939 that ‘Lord, if only I could talk to Ahmadinejad, all of this might be avoided’?
5) Isn’t this really the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history?
6) Aren’t you defending the failed strategy of appeasement and thinking that if you go and talk with Ahmadinejad that they’ll forget their evil ways and learn to love us?
7) What makes you think they would treat a future president any better than they did Jimmy Carter?
8) When one looks at how they use the spectacle of a U.N. address to excoriate us, wouldn’t they similarly use the spectacle of ‘talks’ as a sign of legitimacy and an opportunity to offer no peaceful conciliation but rather a tool to justify the path they‘ve chosen?
9) If you speak with Iran, what demands would you make of them and what are you willing to compromise to get a deal?
10) To which kinds of terrorists would you talk and to which would you not?
About FREAKIN time!!!!
If McCain lacks the guts to say what needs to be said Bush will have to.
Republicans in general, Bush as the party leader, and McCain as the presumptive nominee are all willing to compromise their agenda for no purpose other than, "appeasing" democrats and liberals when it comes to the economy, the environment, individual liberties, energy, education, etc.
You mean Hitler right?
Doesn’t matter. These SOB’s will get us hurt very badly and then turn it all around and blame Bush. Praying people had better pray hard.
I’m trying to make the point that just like with Hitler in 1939, today’s Democrat Senators seem to be saying ‘Lord, if only I could talk to Ahmadinejad, all of this might be avoided.’
11. Have you noticed Israel really frowns on US appeasers and lately bad things happen to terrorists when US Rat Appeasers visit them?
I see that Carter went and visited with Hezbollah and now Hezbollah is burning down Beirut.
<”You mean Hitler, right?”>
Unfortunately, most people haven’t been schooled well about history. They have very vague, if not a vaporous, foggy idea of who Hitler was exactly. Forget about mentioning Neville Chamberlin - young people draw a complete blank.
They, meaning Americans less than 45 years old, will tell you that was ancient history, all long ago, and has nothing to do with what is happenning NOW!
The biggest fallacies believed by many to protect us, is that technology will prevent another big war, and global-wide businesses will stop any war because it will hurt profits. Believe me when I say this: those are exactly the reasons stated in 1900 by European intelligensia why war there was impossible.
Americans and the British reapeated the same litany in the late 1930’s.
History repeats itself BECAUSE we don’t absorb the lesson of history.
Ha! very well put! Indeed it is a sad state when GOP leadership cannot persuasively answer these questions too.
History will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. -RR
Senator Kyl (AZ) was on there scrapping with Wolf. He was giving them the velvet hammer with his trademark smile but it seems he might have been more persuasive with hard sharp angles.
When Pelosi went to see Assad, about 30 engineers and techs accidentally smoked themselves trying to arm a warhead with VX, and when Kucinich met with him on Sept 6, Israel took out Syria’s reactor.
Democrats of all stripes ridiculed this event for the next 22 years and then Obamasama said "'at's what we oughta' do by crackies".
Still, the New York Times wrote another piece in 1987 and is virtually in answer to Osamabama's proposal. Interesting to see what the Leftwingtards have to tell the Moonbats: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html...751C0A961948260
POINT taken.
PALESTINIANS IN GAZA ARE PHONE BANKING FOR OBAMA!!! Hello???
Joe Biden’s remarks are beneath the dignity of the Senate. Or at least they used to be — and will start to be once that balding racist plagiarist is out of office.
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