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Posted on 11/01/2007 9:24:17 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON -- President Bush compared Congress' Democratic leaders Thursday to people who ignored the rise of Lenin and Hitler early in the last century, saying "the world paid a terrible price" then and risks similar consequences for inaction today.
Bush accused Congress of stalling important pieces of the fight to prevent new terrorist attacks by: dragging out and possibly jeopardizing confirmation of Michael Mukasey as attorney general, a key part of his national security team; failing to act on a bill governing eavesdropping on terrorist suspects; and moving too slowly to approve spending measures for the Iraq war, Pentagon and veterans programs.
"Unfortunately, on too many issues, some in Congress are behaving as if America is not at war," Bush said during a speech at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. "This is no time for Congress to weaken the Department of Justice by denying it a strong and effective leader. ... It's no time for Congress to weaken our ability to intercept information from terrorists about potential attacks on the United States of America. And this is no time for Congress to hold back vital funding for our troops as they fight al-Qaida terrorists and radicals in Afghanistan and Iraq."
Bush's remarks were his second in two days alleging inaction on Capitol Hill, which has been led by Democrats since January. This speech focused on measures related to the war on terror, while Wednesday's emphasized disputes between the White House and Congress over domestic issues.
Bush argued the current debate over the Iraq war and the administration's anti-terror methods harkens back to debates decades ago over resisting action when Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin first talked about launching a communist revolution, when Adolf Hitler began moves to establish an "Aryan superstate" in Germany, and in the early days of the Cold War when some advocated accommodation of the Soviet Union.
"Now we're at the start of a new century, and the same debate is once again unfolding, this time regarding my policy in the Middle East," Bush said. "Once again, voices in Washington are arguing that the watchword of the policy should be stability."
Bush said any denial of war is dangerous.
"History teaches us that underestimating the words of evil, ambitious men is a terrible mistake," Bush said. "Bin Laden and his terrorist allies have made their intentions as clear as Lenin and Hitler before them. And the question is, will we listen?"
Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-.N.Y., running for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, took issue with Bush's comparisons.
"George Bush's faulty and offensive historical analogies aren't going to end the war in Iraq, make America safer or bring our troops home," she said in a statement. "Americans are tired of the president's efforts to play politics with national security and practice the politics of division."
Congress earned Bush's scorn even while he offered praise because a key Senate committee has passed a new eavesdropping bill containing many provisions the president wants. "It's an important step in the right direction," he said.
Bush repeated earlier criticisms of a move to combine spending bills for the Defense Department and veterans programs with one for labor, health and education matters that Republicans consider bloated. Bush also lamented that his emergency spending request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan still languishes.
"When it comes to funding our troops, some in Washington should spend more time responding to the warnings of terrorists like Osama bin Laden and the requests of our commanders on the ground," Bush said, "and less time responding to the demands of MoveOn.org bloggers and Code Pink protesters."
-- Worthy of repeating.. again and again..
Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-.N.Y., running for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, took issue with Bush’s comparisons.
“George Bush’s faulty and offensive historical analogies aren’t going to end the war in Iraq, make America safer or bring our troops home,” she said in a statement. “Americans are tired of the president’s efforts to play politics with national security and practice the politics of division.”
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The HildaBeast weighs in..
Talk about being in a serious state of denial.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
There is only 1 person in DC who is serious about terrorism.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Glad to see that he’s poking his head out of his Prairie Dog hole.
Now THIS is the kind of talk I like to hear.
BTTT
If she doesn’t understand the seriousness of the war and just engages in partisan little jabs then she has no business being in public office. The Republicans have begun an offensive campaign and she will feel the brunt of it. An effective thing to do is to ridicule her and other candidates as lightweights.
GO GO GO GO GO GO GO!!!!!!
Still running against Bush I see. Hillary will have to weigh in on the war and we’ll want to know what she will do. She’s trying to placate the moveon crowd and play to the moderates at the same time. My fear is that the media won’t press her to make a stand so we need a candidate who will.
Her own party is now pointing out the flip flops but the Democrat base doesn’t seem to care.
They know it is true — but he remains one of their heroes.
Where has this talk been all of these years?
I confess President Bush just plain confuses me sometimes .. i.e., border security, inscesent fascination with uniting America with a global politic, and a few et cetera's.
**Now THIS is the kind of talk I like to hear.**
Ditto, now, W ... Where the heyell y’all been?
What the President said was right on the mark. That he offended Hitlery in his comment about her patron saint/wax dummy, is a bonus.
ap retitled this as
Bush tells Dems war denial is dangerous
**“Americans are tired of the president’s efforts to play politics with national security and practice the politics of division.”**
You’d think that Evita Clinton would truly know politics of division when she saw it. Hildabeest, to see politics of division, Look in the MIRROR.
MEDIA MATTERS ... just spell the names right
This woman is an endless tired drone script reader. Its always the same dreg with her, just in different variations.
/yawn
ap
The Hildabeast says President Bush is using faulty historical analogies.
How about these:
“It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole...that above all the unity of a nation’s spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual...”
“By this we under stand only the individual’s capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men
-Hitler at Buckeburg, Oct. 7,1933.
“ To be a Socialist,” says Goebbels,”is to submit the I to the thou;socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.”
Karl Marx said,”My own existance is a social activity. For this reason, what I myself produce I produce for society, and the conciousness of acting as a social being.”
in the classless society, he predicts, men will shed all concern for individual rights, private property. Then at last”the narrow horizon of bourgeois right can be left behind...”
And lastly the Hildabeast said of Clintoncare: “It is time to put the common good, the national interest, ahead of individuals.”
“Seig Hillary, Seig Hillary, Seig Hillary!”
Whatever happened to the little conversation between Hillary and Edwards about how they would have to cut the others out of the mainstream???
If a couple of pubbies had that conversation it would be all that would be reported until the election.
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