Democrats Blast Bush for Comments!

President Bush just completed a two-day visit to Israel, to join in the 60th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Jewish state. He was warmly welcomed and received, and even got a standing ovation for his comments made to the Knesset, the Israeli parliament.

Those same comments brought a broadside of attacks from Democrats here in the USA.

Expressing empathy for the Israelis, Bush warned that the United States must not negotiate with Iran or radical groups such as Hamas.

“Some seem to believe 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 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.”

Bush said the incendiary language of Hamas and the armed Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah must be taken seriously. He spoke of the legacy of the Holocaust, citing Hamas’s call for the “elimination” of Israel, Hezbollah followers’ chants of “Death to Israel, death to America” and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president’s vow to wipe the Jewish state off the map.

“There are good and decent people who cannot fathom the darkness in these men and try to explain away their words. It is natural, but it is deadly wrong. As witnesses to evil in the past, we carry a solemn responsibility to take these words seriously. Jews and Americans have seen the consequences of disregarding the words of leaders who espouse hatred.”

Immediately, the Democrats (especially Barack Obama) decided that Bush’s comments were a personal attack on Obama, who has advocated sitting down and talking with Iran and Syria, but not the Palestinian group Hamas. Why not say Bush was attacking former President Jimmy Carter, who DOES want us to negotiate with Hamas? Probably because they couldn’t get as much bad press and negative publicity for Bush if they did that.

House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi said,

“We have a protocol . . . around here that we don’t criticize the president when he is on foreign soil.”

She then promptly did just that.

“One would think that that would apply to the president, that he would not criticize Americans when he is on foreign soil. I think what the president did in that regard is beneath the dignity of the office of president and unworthy of our representation at that observance in Israel.”

Geez! Get a life, woman! Stop trying to make everything so partisan! And that goes for you too, Joe Biden!

I’m not the biggest fan of Bush, and I think he is generally a stumbling orator, but this time he was completely correct.

Bush wasn’t just warning AMERICANS about sitting down with snakes, he was cautioning EVERYONE AROUND THE WORLD who thinks that you can treat vipers with kid gloves and expect anything other than a poisonous strike. The war on terror is real and it won’t be ended by ‘talking nice’ with people who have stated that they will destroy us.

I’m not an Obama fan, for many reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with the color of his skin. While I know that many of his policies are the exact opposite of what I believe to be morally-correct (e.g. protecting partial-birth abortion), it is his foreign policy proposals that make me believe he is so dangerous for this country.

I know that Obama is not stupid, so I can only believe he is naive, to think that we can have a meaningful dialogue with Ahmedinejad, Iran’s President, and continue as allies of Israel. Columbia University embarrassed themselves and the entire United States last year, when they invited Ahmedinejad to speak at Columbia. Columbia University (and the USA) wound up looking like villains and Ahmedinejad was praised around the world for his graciousness in the face of American rudeness. But Obama thinks he has the magic touch, I guess.

Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas & the whole gang must be anxiously hoping that Obama is elected as our next president. In fact, news stories have been circulating about Palestinian groups working to advance Obama’s campaign.

I know that there are people in the USA who blaim Bush for everything from rising gas and food prices to every hangnail suffered in the country, but this time he was CORRECT!

I’m not a big John McCain supporter, however, this time I was proud of his actions. When he was called upon by the Democratic leaders to repudiate Bush’s comments, he refused. Instead he asked the question,

“Why does Senator Obama want to sit down with a state sponsor of terrorism? What does Senator Obama want to talk about with Ahmadinejad?”

Everyone remarks about McCain’s age, but maybe you have to have lived through, or at least studied, history if you want to learn from it. Pelosi, Biden, et al, are so busy looking for a way to attack Republicans and support their boy wonder, that they are choosing to ignore the painful lessons of the past.

This time, President Bush, you were right on!

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