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Bush: Obama Would 'Appease' Terrorists

Posted May 15, 08 10:57 AM CDT in Politics 

(Newser) – He didn't name names, but he didn't need to. President Bush used an appearance before Israel’s Knesset today to accuse Barack Obama of the “foolish delusion” that “we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals.” In comments aimed at Obama’s support among American Jews, CNN notes, the president compared the Democrat to Hitler appeasers, saying, "We have an obligation to call this what it is—the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

Obama, in return, chided Bush for using the occasion to launch a "false political attack,"  and in general for an “extraordinary politicization of foreign policy,” CNN reports, adding, “the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel.” He re-asserted his belief that, like “Kennedy, Nixon, and Reagan,” the US should “use all elements of American power—including tough, principled, and direct diplomacy” to pressure inhospitable countries.

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Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, speaks as he is joined by former Democratic presidential rival John Edwards.   (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
President Bush gestures while addressing the Knesset in Jerusalem, Thursday, May 15, 2008.   (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
U.S. President George W. Bush tours the historic fortress of Masada, Thursday, May 15, 2008, in Israel.   (AP Photo)
U.S. President George W. Bush, right, and Israel's President Shimon Peres, left.   (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, Pool)
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