Posted on 05/15/2008 12:13:53 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
And Democrats are outraged!
You can usually tell when President Bush hits the bullseye of truth. Democrats erupt into childish fits. They don’t like it when the President points out how little they have learned from the lessons of history and how dangerously misguided liberal policies are.
When President Bush told the Israeli Knesset “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,” Obama and friends went into attack mode.
Obama made a statement stressing the need for tough diplomacy (talk). Nancy Pelosi (whose visit to Syria a year ago encouraged the current killings by Hezbollah in Lebanon) said that President Bush’s remarks were “beneath the dignity of the office.” This is the same woman whose sense of dignity permits Code Pink circus freaks to run wild through the halls of Congress.
Senator Joe Biden (D-DE), demonstrating the dignity of his office called President Bush’s remarks “bullshit.”
Here are President Bush’s remarks in context:
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President Bush Addresses Members of the Knesset--Address by PM Olmert, Benjamin Netanyahu
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Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the 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 I could only have talked to Hitler, all 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. (Applause.)
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We don’t need to go back to the Second World War to find that appeasement fails. The Middle East is littered with examples. Obama criticized Bush, while praising President Reagan’s “tough, principled, and direct diplomacy - to pressure countries like Iran and Syria.” I’m currently reading former Reagan Secretary of State George Shultz’s memoir “Turmoil and Triumph” (it’s only 68 cents at Amazon, even Democrats bitter over their economic circumstances can afford it). Again and again Secretary Shultz describes how progress in the Middle East was undermined by attitudes of appeasement and weakness expressed by the usual withdrawal and surrender crowd in the United States.
Shultz makes it clear that our failure in the Middle East resulted from a policy that perverted Teddy Roosevelt’s “speak softly and carry a big stick” to “speak softly and tie the big stick behind your back.”
Currently in Lebanon, Hezbollah is running rampant at the direction of and with funding, training and arms supplied by Syria and Iran. You might not have heard about the conflict with many many innocents killed because the media which focused almost exclusively on Hezbollah casualties when Israel defended itself two years ago isn’t interested when Hezbollah is killing Lebanese.
Since Israel pulled out of Lebanon after being attacked, the United Nations was supposed to step in and address the danger of armed Hezbollah militias. Yet, nothing was done. Nothing but talk. Nothing but appeasement.
Clearly, President Bush’s speech in Israel has the ring of truth. We’ve all seen it with our own eyes for decades. To borrow a Reagansim: Peace does not come without strength and the will to use it. There is no question that Democrats do not understand the benefits of a strong military with the will to use it to advance the cause of peace. The consequence of their appeasement is the very death and war they claim to wish to prevent.
Well said!
Nancy Pelosi said that President Bush’s remarks were “beneath the dignity of the office.”.....
Really, Stretchface?....and you can say that when YOU are beneath the dignity of YOUR office?....
Wow. Sounds like the President hit a nerve.
The dems and their main-slime media whores are braying like the jackasses that they are! Me thinks someone hit a great big ole nerve. Hey Dems and MSM, y’all better go put some ice on that!
Oh yeah, that was some serious smackdown, Joanne.
Rex, your list great so far:
Why do they get angry?
How about this:
1) When we say things about defending America it makes them furious;
2) They think they’re smarter than we are;
3) They feel entitled because they think they’re smarter than us;
4) They are not patriots;
5) They are jealous of people who make their own way in the world and make a good living.
How am I doing so far?
Bush has made this same speech before and nobody yelped.
Maybe Obama has reason to yelp.
This Jew has changed parties and will be voting for McCain this fall.
Thanks, Dave!
I have one more:
6) They think that just about every other culture in the world is superior to ours.
Because their ideology is logically indefensible and must be either hidden or presented without challenge.
US Defense Secretary urges more private US contacts with Iran
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016159/posts
Because they are JINOs and are liberals first and foremost.
Bush is chipping away at the Democrats insistence that they be viewed as strong and patriotic and at the same time determined to resolve all the world’s problems with talk and without offending anyone. They can’t have it both ways no matter how much they rant and rave when they’re called on it.
Their foreign policy is appeasement, and their domestic policy is socialism. This is as succinct as it possibly could be.
Because the truth is killing them.
The immature attitudes of the Democrats is like mine as a child whenever my Mom was onto something wrong I’d done. “The truth hurts, doesn’t it?” she’d say.
And I would get madder than hell . . . because I knew she was right.
Your point #5 brings to mind a short discussion on the radio I heard recently regarding name-calling. The speaker believes that 90% of hatred and bile in name-calling is usually rooted in jealousy.
Makes some sense ...
If only the President would have been this strong with the truth about the other side since Jan 20,2001 instead of trying the “New Tone” crap.
bttt
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