So bush says talking to our enemies is equivalent to the appeasement of nazis...

[NightWatcher]

He openly attacks Obama because he would rather talk with some countries in lieu of running around like a crazy old man singing "bomb bomb bomb Iran"... Maybe he better try reading, or have someone read him, the Washington Post before he runs his mouth off overseas

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/05/14/ST2008051404020.html

Gates: U.S. Should Engage Iran With Incentives, Pressure

The United States should construct a combination of incentives and pressure to engage Iran, and may have missed earlier opportunities to begin a useful dialogue with Tehran, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said yesterday.

"We need to figure out a way to develop some leverage . . . and then sit down and talk with them," Gates said. "If there is going to be a discussion, then they need something, too. We can't go to a discussion and be completely the demander, with them not feeling that they need anything from us."

In the meantime, Gates told a meeting of the Academy of American Diplomacy, a group of retired diplomats, "my personal view would be we ought to look for ways outside of government to open up the channels and get more of a flow of people back and forth." Noting that "a fair number" of Iranians regularly visit the United States, he said, "We ought to increase the flow the other way . . . of Americans" visiting Iran.

[opihimoimoi]

1. Its clear Bush doesn't read History if he does any serious reading at all.

Uninformed and Ignorant ...he guesses on with failures

[shaniqua6392]

2. Doesn't that guy know that no one listens to a damn thing he says any more??

Quack. Quack. Lame. Duck. Shut. The. Hell. Up!! The American people want to talk to Iran. I want to talk to Iran and any of our other so called "enemies". You get more flies with honey George. Obama is right on this one. It has to be carefully done so that we do not get taken advantage of, but it has to be done.

[liberalla]

3. I just saw this reported on MSNBC by Mika Bzrezinski

Obama Campaign has issued a response. She read the first sentence, and will go into the whole thing after the break/next hour.

[Vickers]

4. His family knows quite a bit about Nazi appeasement.

Hell, Nazi SUPPORT.

[NightWatcher]

6. support, you mean he helped fund and build the nazi regime???

WASHINGTON — President Bush's grandfather was a director of a bank seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German industrialist who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler's rise to power, government documents show.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,100474,00.html

[Myrina]

7. LMAO - I was going to say that!!

:yourock:

[spanone]

5. fuck this man who calls himself 'president' FUCK HIM

[liberalla]

8. Here are parts of the response from the Barack Obama campaign

Mika read directly from an email she had just received.

"It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 60th Anniversary of Israel's Independence to launch a false political attack. It is time to turn the page on eight years of policies that have strengthened Iran and failed to secure America or our ally Israel."

"Instead of tough talk and no action, we need to do what Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan did and use all the elements of American power, including tough, principled and direct diplomacy to pressure countries like Iran and Syria."

"George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the President's extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel."