Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Friday, May 16, 2008 1:18:25 AM
The first time the U.S. House of Representatives has voted against funding for the Iraq war.
President Bush said: "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."
Senator Barack Obama responded: "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."
Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky:
President Bush did not point out at anyone particular, but the truth hurts. The swift reaction by Senator Obama bears a withes of inflicted by the truth pain. Let me remind you another quote by Senator Obama: "The day that this president [Bush] steps down, the entire world [including 91 million of Islamic jihadists] will breath a sigh of relief."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded: "President's remarks were beneath the dignity of the office of the president and unworthy of our representation. I would hope that any serious person that aspires to lead the country, would disassociate themselves from those comments.”
Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi does need to "disassociate" herself from those comments by President Bush. The truth is that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a long and shameful record of negotiating with the terrorists and radicals.
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House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel responded: "The tradition has always been that when a U.S. president is overseas, partisan politics stops at the water's edge. President Bush has now taken that principle and turned it on its head: for this White House, partisan politics now begins at the water’s edge, no matter the seriousness and gravity of the occasion. Does the president have no shame?”
Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky:
Does chairman Rahm Emanuel have no shame? It is not president Bush promoting "partisan politics" when it comes to the War on Terror, but chairman Rahm Emanuel who is never tired to say: "The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed!". As an opposite to the president's irrevocable position to combat Terrorism chairman Rahm Emanuel offers nothing less then “The Democratic message beat the Republican message.”