ISRAEL: Bush thrills Israelis, angers Obama

President Bush received several rousing standing ovations during his speech Thursday to the Israeli Knesset.

Not everyone was quite  as enthused.

Several Arab Knesset members staged a walkout before the speech, and one Palestinian activist angrily dubbed his speech "a love fest" for the Jewish state.

To be honest, there was a lot of love in the air between Bush and his Israeli hosts.

Stating that President Harry Truman recognized the new Jewish state 11 minutes after David Ben-Gurion’s declaration of independence, Bush said, “Israel's population may be just over 7 million. But when you confront terror and evil, you are 307 million strong, because America stands with you.”

Bush's speech also caused waves back in the U.S.

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama angrily responded to what he contended  was an unfair swipe at him by Bush. In a not-so-veiled shot at Obama's stated willingness to negotiate with Iran, Bush mocked what he called "the false comfort of appeasement" and 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."

White House officials denied the remark was directed at any one person, but Obama fired back within hours, accusing Bush of distorting his position and employing "the politics of fear."

—Ashraf Khalil in Jerusalem

Photo: George and Laura Bush. Credit: Agencia Brasil

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Comments

[MsSwin]

Looks like even country music stations are upset with Bush attacking an American citizen:

“Currently, 147 country music stations have instituted the [Bush] ban, a number which has been growing by the hour. Clear Channel, a major syndicator to all radio formats across America, is considering the ban, which would increase the numbers significantly and be a major blow to the White House. Several Clear Channel stations have independently instituted their own ban.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/country-radio-stations-sh_b_102147.html

Bush may find his Hitler remarks backfiring even further on him considering his own well documented family history of appeasement, support and money laundering for Hitler.

http://newsmine.org/archive/cabal-elite/families/bush-dynasty/bush-family-fortune-from-nazis-dutch-connection.txt

http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/012303A.ma.dead.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0925-01http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=8783.htm

http://ecosyn.us/Bush-Hitler/Bush-Hitler.html

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/ROG309A.html

[August West]

So Ronald Regan was the Great Appeaser when he talked with USSR/Evil Empire?

[Chui]

George W. Bush is just as good as tits on a boar and McCain the 72 year old pitbull has unopened can of worms in his conservative republican closet that need a serious examination.
1. John Sidney McCain was born in the Canal Zone Panama and his preferential admirals family neglected to register his birth there. Canal Zone Panama has never been US soil or US Sovereign Territory. The US Constitution mandates the President to be "NATURAL BORN" US citizen. McCain virtue of that does not qualify. If the Conservative dominated rules in his favor and makes Canal Zone a Sovereign US Territory when McCain was born. Then Subic Bay Philippines, G.Bay Cuba, and a whole slew of such other places will also qualify settling this country will compensation of over trillion dollars for inhabitants of the above.
2. McCain as son of an admiral had preferential treatment all his life and in particular for his admission to the US Naval Academy where he graduated second last in his graduating class. That $ 486 out 0f 489.
3. He went to Vietnam as a Lt Jr, grade and within less then 10 missions out was responsible the destruction of two jet fighter on account of his cow boy gun hu heroics.
4. During the second incidence he was hot down and his life saved by a friendly Vietnamese farmer, who saved from drowning and being beaten to death by a hostile crowd. McCain for that favor did not even acknowledge the man existence for over three decades after that useless war of no cause or reason.
5. As a POW the Vietnamese record reveal that as a son of an admiral and important negotiating tool, he received preferential treatment. McCain was not a ranking POW officer and yet on account of his preferential treatment he made no attempts to escape or accept release early. He spend the duration of the war as a POW.
6. Thereafter he showed up in front of fellow conservative republican tricky dick Nixon.
At that time the US Navy offered McCain any choice of his own assignment. McCain choose the Military War College, that is normal reserved for high ranking military Officers with merit. McCain as 486 out of 489 in his class at the Naval Academy has no such merit nor any real combat experience other then the destruction of two jet fighters and a POW for five years.
7. Despite all the above and contra to all Navy and military regulations and protocols he was promoted from Lt. to Capitan. Once again preferential treatment to the hilt.
There after a few more years he ran for US Congress and his dubious history with various lobbyists and banking crooks like Charles Keating is a well established history.
At age 72 with several bouts of cancer and tropical illnesses, what this country needs is fore the DOD in particular the US Navy to release all his records including all medical since his days at the Naval Academy. Or is he going to do a George Bush with his Air Jockey National Guard dubious records.

[Young Atheart]

Does this sound like appeasement?

Today on Nova-M radio, Robert Wexler (D-FL) said "GENERALS STARTED FINALLY LISTENING TO OBAMA'S SUGGESTIONS"
when he argued that Musharraf could not openly give permission for targeted strikes for fear of being assassinated

Here is what he was talking about --

1. August 2007 debate: Obama makes vocal case for striking terrorists inside Pakistan
"Let me make this clear: There are terrorists holed up in those mountains, that murdered 3,000 Americans," said Obama during the counterterrorism address. "If we have actionable intelligence about high-valued terrorist targets and if President Musharraf will not act, we will."
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3458915

2. McCain, Hillary, Dodd, Biden all criticize him saying we should not be working against Musharraf our only advocate in the region

3. December 2007: Bhutto assassinated by terrorists

4. The Washington Post reported that in late January, a CIA aircraft fired on several buildings in the Pakistani town of Mir Ali, killing a senior al-Qaida commander and several others. The paper, quoting anonymous U.S. officials, said that the action was done without seeking approval from the Pakistani government.

5. Mid February '08, Musharraf voted out of power; US has spent $11B trying to prop. up Musharraf

6. Late February, Senator Dodd endorsed Obama