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> > =A0In veiled attack, Bush criticizes Dems for terrorist 'appeasement'
> > By Ed Henry
> > CNN White House Correspondent
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> > JERUSALEM (CNN) -- President Bush launched a sharp but veiled attack
> > Thursday on Sen. Barack Obama and other Democrats, suggesting they
> > favor "appeasement" of terrorists in the same way some Western leaders
> > appeased Hitler in the run-up to World War II.
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> > President Bush called the idea of negotiating with terrorists a
> > "foolish delusion."
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> > The president did not name Obama or any other Democrat, but White
> > House aides privately acknowledged to CNN that the remarks were aimed
> > at the presidential candidate and others in his party.
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> > After Bush's comments were widely re****ted, the White House denied
> > they were an attack aimed at Obama.
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> > According to Obama's Web site, he favors "tough, direct presidential
> > diplomacy with Iran without preconditions, and is willing to meet with
> > the leaders of all nations, friend and foe."
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> > He does not favor talks with Hamas, which the U.S. government has
> > listed as a terrorist group.
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> > Former President Jimmy Carter recently wrapped up a trip to the Middle
> > East, which included talks with leaders of Hamas, an Islamic
> > fundamentalist group that controls the Palestinian territory of Gaza.
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> > "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," Bush said at Israel's 60th anniversary
> > celebration in Jerusalem.
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> > "We have heard this foolish delusion before," Bush said in remarks to
> > Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
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> > "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." Video Watch Bush describe what he calls a
> > 'foolish delusion' =BB
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> > Doubts about Obama with Jewish Americans were earlier stoked by Sen.
> > John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee in the 2008
> > presidential election, when he recently charged that Obama is the
> > favored candidate of Hamas.
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> > Obama last week called the Hamas allegation a "smear" and lashed out
> > Thursday at Bush's speech in Israel.
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> > "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," Obama said in a statement released to CNN by his
> > campaign. "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. ...
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> > "George Bush knows that I have never sup****ted 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," Obama's statement said.
> > Video Watch the Obama camp's response to Bush =BB
> > Don't Miss
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> > =A0 =A0 * Bush: Talking to Hamas like talking to Nazis before WWII
> > =A0 =A0 * Henry: Clock ticking on Mideast peace deal
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> > White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Bush's comment was not a
> > "slam" aimed at Obama.
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> > "There are many who have suggested these types of negotiations with
> > people that the president, President Bush, thinks that we should not
> > talk to," she told re****ters after the president's comment was widely
> > re****ted.
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> > The Bush administration held three rounds of discussions with Iran
> > about security in Iraq last year, including two at the ambassadorial
> > level, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday said Wa****ngton
> > needed to "figure out a way to develop some leverage ... and then sit
> > down and talk with" Iran.
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> > House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, condemned Bush's
> > comments and suggested that McCain denounce them.
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> > Pelosi, who leaves later Thursday on a bipartisan congressional trip
> > to Israel, said there is a "protocol" of not criticizing the president
> > when he is abroad, but then declared, "I think what the president did
> > in that regard is beneath the dignity of the office of president and
> > unworthy of our representation at that observance in Israel."
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> > Howard Dean, the Democratic Party chairman, also called on McCain to
> > denounce the comment.
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> > McCain declined to do so Thursday, instead criticizing Obama's
> > willingness to talk to the president of Iran.
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> > "It is a serious error on the part of Sen. Obama that shows naivet=E9
> > and inexperience and lack of judgment to say that he wants to sit down
> > across the table from an individual who leads a country who says that
> > Israel is a stinking corpse," McCain told re****ters.
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> > Joe Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
> > called Bush's comments "bulls**t" and said if the president disagrees
> > so strongly with the idea of talking to Iran then he needs to fire his
> > secretaries of State and Defense, both of whom Biden said have pushed
> > to sit down with the Iranians.
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> > "This is bulls**t. This is malarkey. This is outrageous. Outrageous
> > for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, sit
> > in the Knesset ... and make this kind of ridiculous statement," said
> > Biden, D-Delaware.
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> > Bush largely focused his speech in Jerusalem on highlighting the
> > American-Israeli partner****p. "The alliance between our governments is
> > unbreakable, yet the source of our friend****p runs deeper than any
> > treaty," he said.
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> > Bush said the United States and Israel are locked in an ideological
> > struggle with radicals in the Middle East, using the speech to tie al
> > Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to the terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah.
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> > "That is why the founding charter of Hamas calls for the 'elimination'
> > of Israel," Bush said. "That is why the followers of Hezbollah chant
> > 'Death to Israel, Death to America!' That is why Osama bin Laden
> > teaches that 'the killing of Jews and Americans is one of the biggest
> > duties.' And that is why the president of Iran dreams of returning the
> > Middle East to the Middle Ages and calls for Israel to be wiped off
> > the map."
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> > Bush then made his transition to Obama and other Democrats without
> > naming names, raising the specter of the Holocaust to make his point.
> > advertisement
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> > "There are good and decent people who cannot fathom the darkness in
> > these men and try to explain their words away," said Bush. "This is
> > natural. But it is deadly wrong.
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> > "As witnesses to evil in the past, we carry a solemn responsibility to
> > take these words seriously. Jews and Americans have seen the
> > consequences of disregarding the words of leaders who espouse hatred.
> > And that is a mistake the world must not repeat in the 21st century,"
> > the president said.
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> > CNN's Ted Barrett contributed to this re****t.
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