American Election News

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., accused President Bush of launching “a false political attack” against him in his Thursday speech to Israel’s Knesset. The president, who is touring Israel in honor of the 60th anniversary of its creation, told members of Israel’s legislature that he sees a transition to peaceful coexistence between Israel and neighboring territories such as the Gaza Strip and Syria.

In his speech, Bush took a possible swipe at the Democratic presidential front-runner’s promise to meet with hostile foreign leaders such as Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad.

“We have heard this foolish delusion before,” Bush said without citing Obama by name, according to the Associated Press. “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.”

Subscribe To Site:

Full Post Feed | Summary Feed | Comments Feed