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.
This is rich!
You can’t make this stuff up and you can’t buy it!
Go, GW!
Yup, kicked him right in the vagina.
Sadly the Democrats, like Obama, have never learned that with regard to the Muslim position on Israel, you can’t negotiate the non-negotiable and you can’t reason with the unreasonable.
Excellent Post!
Thanks for another good addition for your list.
“They think that just about every other culture in the world is superior to ours.”
That and their damn sense of entitlement re every facet of their miserable lives are starting to drive people besides conservatives bonkers.
This excellent list was posted RexBeach.
As I get older and sometimes more insightful re why people behave they do, jealousy and lack of a sense or real value to the world, family, friends, and self is a core of most liberals filled with hate.
ROFL!
Just more Bush-bashing from the osama hussein & his RAT pack of animals.
Lots of good stuff on the threads.
Ya owe me a new keyboard, tbg.
I really loved this speech.I watched it Live on CNN.The president were given standing ovations.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted President Bush’s comments Thursday suggesting that Democrats believe “we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals” and suggested Senator John McCain denounce them.
But the presumptive Republican nominee himself defended the remarks, said he intended to make Barack Obama’s willingness to consider dialogue with Iran an issue in the fall campaign, calling on the Illinois senator to “explain [that decision] to the American people.”
“It is a serious error on the part of Senator Obama that shows naiveté and inexperience and lack of judgment — to say that he wants to sit down across the table from an individual who leads a country who says that Israel is a stinking corpse, that is dedicated to the extinction of Israel,” said McCain Thursday. “My question is, what does he want to talk about?”
Another example of the clear difference between McCain and Obama IMHO.
I haven't looked yet, but I'm going to guess that the Stupid Party has instead been wetting themselves all day while hiding under their desks.
I was glad to hear the President say that, but I think it would carry some credence if it wasn’t for the fact that his administration (State Dept) has done nothing BUT pander, attempt to buy off, beg and otherwise humiliate themselves when it comes to dealings with Iran, Venzuela, N. Korea and the Palis. Too little, too late W.
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