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Bush, in Israel, Says He Won't Talk to Terrorists
President George W. Bush, in a speech to Israel's parliament, said he won't negotiate with terrorists, and he criticized those who would. ``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,'' Bush told the Knesset in Jerusalem today. ``We have heard this foolish delusion before,'' he said. ``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's speech quickly became an issue in the U.S. presidential campaign. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign interpreted the remarks as a criticism of the Illinois senator, who has said that as president he would meet with America's enemies as well as friends. Bush's words represent ``an unprecedented political attack on foreign soil,'' Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said in an interview on CNN. New York Senator Hillary Clinton, Obama's rival for the nomination, decried the statement as well. ``President Bush's comparison of any Democrat to Nazi appeasers is both offensive and outrageous,'' Clinton told reporters in Rapid City, South Dakota, today. ``This is the kind of statement that has no place in any presidential address.'' Posted by: Fred 2008-05-16 |
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