Posted on 05/15/2008 10:31:05 AM PDT by Reagan Man
Sen. Joe Biden, piling on to Democratic complaints about President Bushs speech in Israel today:
This is bullshit, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset . . . and make this kind of ridiculous statement.
Speaking before the Knesset, Bush said that some people believe the United States 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," 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 isthe false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."
Democrats have interpreted the comments as an attack on Sen. Barack Obama, and Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that the president was out of line.
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. Its 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?
In a separate statement, Sen. John Kerry said that Bush "is still playing the disgusting and dangerous political game Karl Rove perfected, which is insulting to every American and disrespectful to our ally Israel. George Bush should be making Israel secure, not slandering Barack Obama from the Knesset."
The White House insists that Bush wasnt referring specifically to Obama, an argument that Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) called "baloney."
"There is no escaping what the president is doing," said Durbin, who supports Obama. "It is an attack on Sen. Obamas position that we should not be avoiding even those we disagree with when it comes to negotiations and diplomacy."
Durbin called Bush's remarks "unfair and really unfortunate."
Too bad, plugs.
When you’re taking on flak, you’re over the target.
That is precisely how you know when you've hit the nail on the head! Speak the truth and the leftists go nuts. It's like someone splashing holy water on them.
You recall incorrectly.
Ummmm.. in this case, Bush’s statements were 100% accurate. There are some people who believe that we should negotiate with Islamadingdongs like Iran and other terrorists. The fact that Obama has actually STATED that we should open a dialog with them should be an indicator of the truth...
And Biden is an idiot.
Now the big question is,Did W really mean it?
Nice work...
Friggin crybabies
If you read the reader comments to this story they sound like Freepers a lot of them mixed in with the occasional “Bush is a war criminal” DU intellectuals.
Senator Biden is as big a fool and as stupid as Jimmy Carter.
Two of history’s biggest losers.
Reassuring to know that TIME was as effed-up and wrong then as it is now....
And just what party did he belong to?
Just a bare handful of the many, deadly “incidents” in return:
Lebanon Marine Barracks
Kobar Towers
(maybe a hand in) Oklahoma City
Mogadishu
WTC I
WTC II
Way past time to stop talking, and begin exterminating...and not stop until the job is nicely done.
Biden is right.
Never thought I’d say that.
Good troll bait thread!
He, and several others are bunnies, and need panckaes on their heads.
Even better would be if they were pancaaed, a-la Rachel Corie, preferrably by a Pali "ambulance" full of rockets.
In Biden’s defense, he plagerized the line from someone else.
Sounds like the President has hit a nerve. Yahooooo. I think we now how to hit Obama and the Dems this Fall. “Appeasers in a time of terrorism”.
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