George W. Bush is unworthy of the presidency. He is a disgrace to himself, our Nation, and the high office he holds.
In a speech to the Israeli Knesset on Thursday, Mr. Bush forfeited the last scraps of his moral authority, dishonoring himself by using one of the world's most important pulpits to launch a false and vicious political attack against Barack Obama.
I am such a strong supporter of Israel that when I worked in the White House some of my friends called me a "Likkud Democrat." It is especially appalling to supporters of Israel that Mr. Bush would stand on a hilltop in Jerusalem to invoke the Holocaust in order to make a cheap and deeply dishonest political point.
I am a person of faith, so it is especially galling that a man who calls himself a brother in faith would stand in the Holy Land and violate one of the Commandments God gave to Moses: "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."
This is what Mr. Bush said, according to the text released by the White House:
"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. 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."
His attack was disgraceful, demeaning and dishonest. Bush's own government has repeatedly conducted negotiations with terrorists and radicals, including:
It should be noted that in each instance, the negotiations actually advanced America's security position. So even the Bush administration, by its actions, attests to the efficacy of negotiating with evildoers.
All this is to say George W. Bush is a hypocrite. So deep is his cynicism that he would go on foreign soil to invoke history's greatest crime to condemn conduct he himself has engaged in.
As an American I am ashamed that such a man represents me.
I say this as someone who has not supported Barack Obama in the Democratic primaries; someone who has reservations about Sen. Obama's plan to engage Iran in talks without any preconditions. But there comes a time when intra-party rivalries must yield, and all of us must stand together against the degradation of the Office of the Presidency.
Paul, your outrage is too little too late.
It's a disgrace. HE is a disgrace. And all his enablers for good measure.
But, alas, there is nothing new about that.
My recommendations: Read F. William Engdahl's works if you seek some grasp of how it all started which implies that America was overtaken by hypocrites and thugs. Read Richard C. Cook ("Has the Battle for America Begun? - http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8977 ) for some current "bulletin" of how far it's grown and what chances there remain for humanity to escape irrevocable descent into tyranny and barbarism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHliQNZcmi8
That is why it did not matter who the individual Senator was. Bush was denouncing the person as standing for an opinion and Bush was projecting that opinion on all Americans.
The Republicans in Congress should caucus and denounce Bush's unprecedented invective directed from across the seas at the American public.
Barack is better served by turning the tables, but not by talking about 'failed policies" (too weak a phrase to even raise a yawn) or "policies that do not make us safer" (barely raises a yawn). Say it aggressively:
George Bush, your actions have made our enemies stronger. You have no business telling anyone how to make America safer.
Worried about what Iran will do next in Iraq? Well, Iran wasn't in Iraq until you invaded. You have made our enemy Iran stronger. Concerned about a resurgence of al Qaeda in Iraq? There was no al Qaeda in Iraq before you invaded. You have made our enemy al Qaeda stronger.
Iraq was a secular state before we invaded. Now 40% of Iraqis live under Sharia law. Our enemies are stronger because you invaded. The Taliban are strengthened by drug money. Our enemies are stronger because you were distracted by Iraq. Or jump to North Korea, where the madman who had 1 to 2 nuclear weapons now has 8 to 11. The madman is stronger because of your cowboy diplomacy.
George Bush (and John McSame), you have made our enemies stronger. No thinking national security hawk could possibly support you. You have no business telling anyone how to make America safer.
he says we shouldn't appease dictators and terrorist all the while his administration talks to north korea who's dictator throws his own people into death camps if they oppose him and he's cutting his own country off from the world which is starving his own country,so he can look good, but bush admin talks to this guy because back in 05 north korea succesfully detonated a nuclear device,but since we've been having diplomatic talks with them they have dismantled their nuclear pogram,so why shouldn't we have diplomacy with iran to get them to try and disarm their nuclear program?
She should have had Obama give her away, it would have rasied W's stature a good 50 pts.
By the way, how long have you been waiting to use that French expression?
What's next, giving up deodorant along with common sense?
At this point, anybody who still supports Bush is in dire need of some serious therapy.
Bush is supose to represent all of America. Not just the Republican War Profiteers.
Nomo - writing here with no President currently for the United States of America that I live in.
But, I must confess, at this point, nothing Bush says or does surprises me.
Dubya is the Wrong-Way Corrigan of politics and he's still flying the plane without a flight plan.
The Lord only knows where we'll land. Hopefully, it will be a controlled crash.
Has any other President ever publicly shown this type of disdain to the democratic process and principles, and at the same time calling those that don't support his miserable policies "un-american?" Can anyone here shed light?
Remember when Bush couldn't find WMD under the table? The smirk, the nasal flaring?
And now taunting the victims of the Holocaust?