TIMESONLINE: Barack Obama today accused President Bush of launching a “false political attack” after he appeared to compare the Democratic presidential hopeful’s foreign policy to appeasement of the Nazis.
Mr Bush triggered a row when he implied during a speech in the Israeli Parliament that Mr Obama’s willingness to talk to radical regimes was a dangerous “delusion”.
Although he did not refer to Mr Obama by name, the Illinois senator condemned the President for using Israel’s 60th birthday to attack Democratic contenders for the White House.
“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,” Mr Bush said.
“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."
Mr Obama has said that as president he would personally negotiate with Iran and offer economic incentives and a chance for peaceful relations if Iranian leaders would forgo their pursuit of nuclear weapons and their support of terrorists. Obama Clashes with Bush in Nazi Appeasement Row >>> By Hannah Strange | May 5, 2008
BBC:
Obama Apologizes for ‘Sweetie’ Comment >>> | May 15, 2008
NZZ Online:
Bushs Vision für einen friedlichen Mittleren Osten: US-Präsident bekräftigt vor der Knesset Unterstützung für Israel >>> | 15. Mai 2008
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD:
Bush Likens Obama to Nazi Appeaser >>> By Sheryl Gay Stolberg in Jerusalem | May 17, 2008
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