Yesterday, 14 May 2008, President Bush and Mrs Bush were generously and warmly welcomed when they attended the Israeli Presidential Conference 2008 in Jerusalem during a celebration in honor of the nation's 60th anniversary. President Bush made the following statement:
"Our two nations both faced great challenges when they were founded, and our two nations have both relied on the same principles to help us succeed. We've built strong democracies to protect the freedoms given to us by an Almighty God. We've welcomed immigrants, who have helped us thrive. We've built prosperous economies by rewarding innovation and risk-taking and trade. And we've built an enduring alliance to confront terrorists and tyrants."
Today, in his speech to the Knesset he said anyone who claims that talking with terrorists will result in peace is experiencing a “foolish delusion.”
“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 heard this foolish delusion before. 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 president said.
While Bush never mentioned Obama by name, “aggressive personal diplomacy” with Iran is an oft-stated proposal by Obama as a means to end that country’s support for insurgency in Iraq and its nuclear programs. Obama swiftly criticized Bush for a “false political attack” and said the president’s foreign policy has failed to secure the U.S. or Israel.
“Instead of tough talk and no action, we need to do what Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan did and use all elements of American power — including tough, principled, and direct diplomacy — to pressure countries like Iran and Syria. 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 said.
I am disgusted with the thin-skinned pettiness of many people currently in public life, especially libs. It sickens me that they're all so quick to whine about being misquoted, moan about being treated unfairly and then expect a public apology. None of them can muster up the uh, er, courage to stand by their words. What a crop of cry babies. He can deny it til H#!! freezes over and all the dems can rally around him but Obama said he would sit down and talk with terrorists and he surely wasn't thinking of President Reagan's presidency when he said it. His remarks are indefensible.
* Quote attributed to William Edgar Borah, a "progressive" republican from Idaho. Borah was headstrong and often disagreed with the conservative wing of the party. When told of the senator's love of horseback riding, President Coolidge replied, "It's hard to imagine Senator Borah going in the same direction as his horse."
Ooops! Whatchathink? Lovebirds or a here, Hold my beer moment? LOL
Planes Stuck on Top of Each Other at Texas Airport
Thursday, May 15, 2008 ROANOKE, Texas — One small airplane ended up on top of another Thursday in a collision at Northwest Regional Airport, about 20 miles northeast of Fort Worth.
Nobody was seriously hurt in the accident as one plane apparently tried to land as the other was taking off from the airport near Texas Motor Speedway, KXAS-TV reported.
Live television coverage showed two single-engine planes, one stacked atop the other.
Northwest Regional Airport, on its Web site, bills itself as the largest privately-owned airport in America, with more than 550 planes.
There is no control tower. Pilots using the airport are required to transmit their locations over a certain radio frequency.
The weather in the area Thursday was partly cloudy with light winds.
Airport officials did not immediately respond to calls for comment.