Bush, Obama, and Israel

Today President Bush said, in Israel:

"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," Bush said in remarks to Israel's parliament, the Knesset.

"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."

This, of course, to celebrate Israel's 60th anniversary. NOT! This was a cheap shot at Democratic leading candidate, Barack Obama. Why? Because Obama is willing to meet with enemy countries and try to negotiate peace, to lay out in clear terms what they must do in order to achieve peace.

Of course, Bush denies that his words were targeted at anyone in particular.

CNN.com reports:

Joe Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called Bush's comments "bulls**t" and said if the president disagrees so strongly with the idea of talking to Iran then he needs to fire his secretaries of State and Defense, both of whom Biden said have pushed to sit down with the Iranians.

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Good for Senator Biden! It's a blind and insane policy to REFUSE TO TALK with countries that we deem our enemies. Why shouldn't we sit down with their leaders and tell them what we want them to do, negotiate, argue, make demands, perhaps make treaties. Obama isn't talking about sitting down with terrorists (he would NOT sit with Hammas), but he would talk to leaders of other countries...any country, no matter how insane...because TALKING is the peaceful way to resolve issues.

John McCain said: "It is a serious error on the part of Sen. 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"

Is it a serious error? Or is the bigger error to ignore Iran, let them say and do whatever they want, and never site down to talk. Simply let them alone until we're forced into another war.

Which is the more naivé, Mr. McCain? He who thinks issues should try, first, to be resolved with speech, or he who jumps right into war?

John McCain: WAR HAWK FOR PRESIDENT.