President Bush Compares Obama's Iran Diplomacy Statement To Appeasement Of Nazis
By Logan Murphy Wednesday May 14, 2008 12:00pm
During a speech in Jerusalem, President Bush jumped head first into the 2008 presidential campaign by taking a shot at Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama, by comparing his willingness to hold diplomatic talks with Iran to the appeasement of Nazis in the 1930's.
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President Bush's foreign policy has been nothing short of a disaster and even MSNBC's Pat Buchanan can't help but call this what it is - an unprecedented smear of an American presidential candidate from outside the country. Buchanan and Harold Ford Jr. both agree that Bush has really stepped in it with these comments and the big question now, as it relates the presidential campaign, is how Senator John McCain reacts. McCain has already used the Hamas smear repeatedly against Senator Obama, but will he embrace these farcical statements of President Bush? Senator Obama immediately responds to the attacks:
"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. 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. Instead of tough talk and no action, we need to do what Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan did and use all the elements of American power, including tough, principled and direct diplomacy to pressure countries like Iran and Syria."
According to Will Bunch, Bush just committed an act of political treason:
And you, Mr. Bush, are the leader of us all. To use a diplomatic setting on foreign soil to score a cheap political point at home is way beneath your office, way beneath your country, and way beneath the people you serve. You have been handed an office once uplifted to great heights by fellow countrymen from Washington to Lincoln to Roosevelt to Eisenhower, and have plunged it so deeply into the Karl-Rove-and-Rush-Limbaugh-fueled world of political destruction and survival of all costs that have lost all perspective -- and all sense of decency. To travel to Israel and to associate a sitting American senator and your possible successor in the Oval Office with those who at one time gave comfort to an enemy of the United States is, in and of itself, an act of political treason. Read on...
UPDATE: (Nicole) You knew it had happen. Lieberman has come out with a statement (surprise, surprise!) backing President Bush:
President Bush got it exactly right today when he warned about the threat of Iran and its terrorist proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah. It is imperative that we reject the flawed and naïve thinking that denies or dismisses the words of extremists and terrorists when they shout "Death to America" and "Death to Israel," and that holds that -- if only we were to sit down and negotiate with these killers -- they would cease to threaten us. It is critical to our national security that our commander-in-chief is able to distinguish between America's friends and America's enemies, and not confuse the two.
I bet Holy Joe doesn't want to be reminded that the Bush family knows all about Nazi appeasement.
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THat's just like Bu$h to be talking out of his ass again!! Hey George... STFU!
Frist - or whomever.
Wow. Like I needed another reason to despise the Bush clan.
This should backfire in his stupid face big time.
Impeach the bastard, don't bother listening to him.
Last link the post about the Bush family doesn't work.
Comparing Iran to NAZI Germany for political purposes diminishes the atrocity of the Holocaust. I'm sure my fellow Jewish Americans find this as appaling as I do. Bush should be ashamed, but the man has no conscience.
Classic Bush stuff. This is a man who would have invaded Bolivia after Pearl Harbor if he had been president.
PEOPLE OF CONNECTICUT--Please recall Holy Joe.
Looks like Keith will be writing another Special Comment.
Anytime Bush attacks Obama it's a gift for Obama...keep it up, Mr. 26% Approval!
Snowball @ 6:
Absolutely! And if we could "excommunicate" fellow MOT, LIEberman would be at the top of the list!!!
What will Lieberman have to do to be stripped of his committee chairmanships -- call Obama a Nazi-loving child molester? Kill and eat a small child? Come on, he's gone too far now with this shameless, traitorous pile-on. Sen. Reid, show some backbone.
Why is this so surprising? This two-bit dictator has been committing treason right and left for 8 years now.
"radical" is relative.
Bush is going to Saudi Arabia today to negotiate. Did he forget that 15 of the 9/11 suicide bombers were from Saudi Arabia.
For many in the middle east and elsewhere around the world the policies towards the Palestinians and some of Israel's leaders are as radical as it gets.
Bush has had no problem getting most of the false pre war intelligence from some of the most right wing radicals in our country.
Cheney says "so"
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/
Hey Bush you big 'tard, you shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you.....remember grandpa Prescott? Yeah, well see he made a WHOLE lot of money helping to finance the Nazi war machine back in WWII and that money pretty much helped get your dumb ass into the white house. That would make you the grandson of nazi sympathizers. Spin that one dj.
Reference it: Prescott Bush, Brown Brothers Harriman, Nazis on google.
Ah, never mind...
Nazis, eh? Well armed, aggressive, impressive, all consuming War Machine. Rolled over numerous neighboring countries, including several past world powers. Henry Ford and Prescot Bush were apparently fans, however.
Iran. Hasn't invaded another country in over 300 years. Was attacked by Iraq with support from the US. Not a world power, but if we keep it up they may band with Syria, Lebanon, Kurds, et al (possibly even Shiite factions of a disgrundled Iraq and China) and become one.
Yeah, I see the comparison -- Not.
Bush should know about the threat: he Nazis tortured innocent people, spied on their own citizens, established secret prisons, suspended civil liberties, and invaded non-threatening countries.
To be "insulted" by this retarded President is an astounding compliment to Obama. Being fair though, Bush and his family does know a bit about the Nazis'. His grandfather Prescott, got rich working for them.
Yea, and just how well has your "I don't talk to those who disagree with me" diplomatic stance work Mr. Bush? Not too damn well. We are hated all over the world, your unilateral foreign policies & tactics have alienated even countries that were once friendlies... No, I reject your scare tactics... Fact is you haven't been right about anything important in the last 7 years... We need a new way of dealing with our global neighbors, yes, including those who disagree with our foreign & trade policies. We'd expect our school-kids to exercise discussion in their resolving disagreements with their classmates, we should expect no less from our leaders... Obama's stated intention relative to the USA's foreign policy is exactly what is needed... I just hope that the legacy of Bush's failed foreign policy isn't that "mushroom cloud" that Condi and Bush warned us about when they started this war in Iraq...
Both of these worthless, empty headed, evil bastards should be put in handcuffs and trotted off to the Hague for immediate legal proceedings. Instead they're busily trying to increase their stock portfolios by starting another war.
It's a really sick and sad feeling when a person realizes there is no justice in the world. The only good thing about either of them is they are mortal and finite. Unfortunately they will do as much damage as they possibly can in the time they have remaining.
The American conservative - Godwin's bitch.
To all conservatives: The Nazis also inhaled oxygen on a regular basis. I suggest you stop immediately.
I thought the Republicans were going to use race as an issue, well looks like they are going full force on all fronts. This is a paragraph from a BBC article:
The BBC's James Coomarasamy in Washington says the row indicates that Republicans have identified Senator Obama's Middle East policy and his perceived weakness amongst Jewish voters as a key point of attack, should he, as many expect, be Republican John McCain's opponent in the November election.
I thought Defense Secretary Gates was the one "appeasing" Iran. bush is an idiot and it's a serious waste of time trying to make any sense of the stupid things the madman and his neo-con handlers say.
How do 5 million Jewish Folks living inside Israel and perhaps another 10 million living elsewhere in the world .... or when Jews consist of less than 2% of the American population hold such influence within North America and within the body politic?
How is that possible?
We would never allow 35 million people of Taiwan to constantly bad-mouth China and offend a billion or more Chinese. And yet we are actually encouraging the Jewish Folks to bad-mouth a billion or more Muslims and Arabs.
How is that possible?
Why do we allow 5 million people living inside Israel to hold the world hostage for 60 years or more and to threaten mankind with nuclear war?
For years and years Jewish Folks have entered court rooms across this universe and demanding the "Right Of Return" of money, jewlery, paintings and properties which were seized by Hitler and The Clowns. Never once have I heard the Jewish Folks claim that "The Facts Had Changed On The Ground" and thus the Jews might not be eligible for the return of that which once belonged to them.
But the Jews are telling the Palestinian People that "The Facts Have Changed On The Ground" and they are not entitled to the return of lands and properties which were seized in 1948 or as a result of the 6-day war.
Calm
Why do we let this idiot out of the country?
Iran nazis ?tell me again, exactly how many countries has Iran invaded/occupied in the last 200 years ? .... i'll give you a clue, it starts with a 0 and ends with an 0.
If we surrender Bush to the Nazis will we get our deposit back? I'm just curious, that's all.
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Hey, don't forget the Bush family also helped prop up Saddam Hussein while he was committing genocide and basically helped strengthen his stranglehold on Iraq.
LM:
I bet Holy Joe doesn’t want to be reminded that the Bush family knows all about Nazi appeasement.
Now, now, Logan! Don't bother Lieberman with the facts! They are known to have a liberal bias!
A president whose family fortune is soaked in the blood of Hollocaust victims goes to Israel and compares a black man to a Nazi sympathizer. Way to keep striving for new lows, right wing America!
honuman @ 15:
What ever happened to the gravitas of the oval office? Bush has soiled it forever. I have never seen such inapprpriate remarks in my life. I thought "W" said he would stay out of the election as a sitting president. Another lie. Shameless and sickening.
The Bush dynasty was built on with the help from the nazis.
http://www.geocities.com/bushfamilynazis/
We're not celebrating Israel's anniversary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/30/israelandthepalestinians
5 Myths on Who"s Really "Pro-Israel"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/08/AR200805...
And then there's of course the imperial PNAC agenda which I doubt wouldn't make many nazis proud.
If we don't start a war with Iran, then how will we bring about the Armageddon that McCain's political allies so desperately want? No war, no Rapture.
Bush equated today's situation re:Iran with the eve of WWII!
With some luck, the Knesset could introduce legislation for the Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem while Bush is still there.
They can't do anything to Lieberman. He's an independent who caucuses with the Dems, leaving them in charge (barely) 51-49. If they take away his committee chair, he will caucus with the GOP and the chamber will go 50-50. Seems like JL knows this and is really working hard to push the buttons of the leadership. I am not quite sure how or why Reid and Durbin haven't just lost it with this guy.
The entire shrub co. clan stinks from the root to the tip. If all the people they've murdered in their mad race to wealth and power stood up there'd be a population explosion.
Just keep talking George. Few people listen to you anymore except for comedy purposes and those who do take you seriously are those 29% who still approve of you, the "backwash" as Stephen Colbert so aptly named them. "Dumb as a stump" John McCain. Yeah, I know, you Repugnicants are going to try to win the Jewish vote with your misleading mudslinging. Politics as usual.
What do you expect from the rotton son of a bitch?
Intelligence?
vrk @ 7:
Spot on.
also, note that one of the main reasons for saber rattling is the notion that ahmadinejad said he wants to "wipe israel off the map." anytime discussion come up regarding iran pundits/polticians, on cue, like well-trained parrots (sorry my feathered friends for the comparison), repeat this assertion, that iran, if possible, would destroy everyone and everything is israel in some sort of nuclear holocaust.
this has been discredited. and the propoganda and lies are on par with the pre-Operation Iraqi Liberation lies.
in fact, with the correct translation, what ahmadinejad said is no different from what our political leaders say about many, many countries.
the actual quote was not from ahmadinejad, but from khomeini. and the correct transl, as per juan cole, is "the occupation regime over Jerusalem should vanish from the page of time." this is wholly different than from what our wargasmic class/war profiteers would like us to believe.
are we goldfish? is our memory so short that we will be manipulated into war again? how many times does this have to happen before people stop trusting the assertions of our corporate controlled pentagon and civilian govt without checking and cross checking their claims?
(note: this is not meant to defend ahmadinejad and the iranian regime, but just to provide better info than our propaganda-suppliers)
How long before Hillary jumps on this? Remember, in the debates she scolded Obama for discussing diplomatic solutions for Iran.
$4.00 + for a gallon of gas.
"Mission Accomplished" republicans!!!
rotten* lol.
Bush is a sociopath and is a very sick man.
Please protect Obama and all the honest candidates.
Investigate who Bush personally appointed to "protect" Obama.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/washington/15inquire.html?_r=4&partner...
I have even heard that some Blackwater recruits are
abandoning because of the crimes that Bush and Cheney are doing to our country.
Keep investigating and distributing the truth to all honest
news media outlets and those in Congress left.
It is becoming apparent that Bush, Cheney and aligned criminals have now evolved into an Espionage Crime mob operating from the peoples White House.
Keep investigating all the crooks and mobs who are more
loyal to criminals than they are to America.
It is worse than Watergate.
All I can say is I thought Keith Olbermann was angry last night, I wonder what the hell he is going to do with this.
Even hardcore Zionists will see this as a bad move politically.
But not Joe . . what an ass.
Yeah, Bush knows all about Nazis. He IS one.
what is so great is that dog don't hunt no more. nobody is buying his bullshit anymore and it will be perceived as it is, an ignorant, ill-informed statement. he's doing all the heavy lifting for the dems. he's their greatest ally now.
Kansaskowboy @ 25:
Why do we let the bastard back in??!!
This idiot is going to a (*cough*) foreign country and spouting that kind of garbage??? ... HOLY SCHNIKIES!!!! ... and next stop is SAUDI ARABIA??? !!!
Isnt that where most of the 9/11 ... ?? nevermind ... IS he gonna do another sword dance for his boyfriend Bandar?
Beyond WOW !!!!
slippy hussein toad @ 3:
No kidding. Bush is a complete and utter disgrace.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
motorfingaz @ 51:
Maybe we can change all the locks while he's gone.
honuman @ 15:
That's right. Great-granddaddy supplied the Germans in WWI, Granddaddy financed Hitler. Nice people those Bushes.
Kansaskowboy @ 25:
More importantly, can we keep him from coming back?
Bush also informed us that it is Israel's 120th anniversary.
Who knew?
Now I'm so confused...
Does that mean Israel was created in the 1880s? 6 decades before World War II?
Or did World War II happen in the 1880s? um.. before World War I?
It's so hard keeping track of history when they keep changing it....
Alice (once a Naderite always…) @ 4:
AMEN, ALICE!!! From your lips to nancy pelosi's ears! (and through her thick head!)
Not to lose sight of the real issue here, but for Obama to cite Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan as "what we need to do" in foreign policy is beyond disturbing. Ask innocent civilians in Vietnam and Cuba and all throughout Central America if those Presidents had good foreign policy.
Should we trade arms for hostages and cut backroom deals for political reasons like we did under Reagan? Should we train, fund and operate death squads that murder and terrorize leftists throughout central America?
Obama may talk domestically about changing Washington, but his foreign policy rhetoric is strictly inside the Beltway. And he's status quo on supporting Israel's Apartheid of Palestine as well.
If we are to belive that China is loaning us money to keep solvent, then I have some ocean front property in AZ to sell you. The entire Scheme of NWO is to take contol of all resouces at any cost. Once they control all resources they will no longer need scientist, doctors, lawyers, teachers. economist, journalist, trolls. You are all being played.
Travis @ 43:
Don't worry. The Super delegates put a muzzle on Hillary telling her they'd sprint to Obama if she continued with the negative crap. She's actually been a good girl the last few days.
Warmongering on Iran keeps the price of oil high.
Mission accomplished.
Shut the f**k, er, hell, up!
Snowball @ 6:
I am sick to death of hearing this shit. Jews were far from being the only people killed in the Holocaust. Simon Weisenthal said the same thing about the kurdish genocide- he said it trivialized the holocaust when the two event were compared.
STFU! Once and for all. Genocide is Genocide end of story and if you want some bangers, buddy...The holocaust trivializes the Spanish Inquisition or the Crusades against the Christians wherein both of these events witnessed the murders of more than 100 million innocent people.
Just quit spewing this bullshit philosophy of Jews and the holocaust. Being that you are in a quorum why don't you and your friends assassinate GW Bush especially since GW's family financed the Nazi's and your precious memory holocaust in the first place. The holocaust was a horribly tragic event in history without question- but it was not the worst and it seems it will not be the last no matter how many times it is brought up and thrown into peoples facings and since it the reminders are doing nothing to change future history- shut the fuck up.
Either do something or shut the fuck up because your rantings are why stupid people harbor resentments toward decent Jewish people...or maybe that's the point?
35 Penetang Says:
Bush equated today’s situation re:Iran with the eve of WWII!
Really? Are the Japanese on their way to bomb Pearl Harbor?
how many days until January?
Bushes in glass houses should not throw Nazis...
IF you have not already done so - PLEASE - call or email your Congress Person:
Tell them to CO-SIGN Rep John Conyer's letter to Bush THREATENING TO IMPEACH BUSH if he does not seek Congressional Approval before ATTACKING IRAN.
Conyers Tells White House Iran Attack = Impeachment
WOW!!!!Joe Liberman rather hug George Bush, who grand father who work with the Nazi durning WW2, while they killed JEWS, and even work with the Nazi after the war,so why do the JEWS get mad when someone
else say something that they don't agree with, but with the Bushes it o.k. that some in their family help kill JEWS doing WW2, with money and doing business with the Nazi party, the JEWS and Nazi sympathizers(Prescott Bush and Family) make strange bed fellow.
Is Bush gonna give Sharon a sponge bath while he's there?
Bush = Scumbag
Flackman @ 9:
Yes, he will. And who can blame him?
Why does this President keep saying stupid, and stupid things all the time? It amazes me that people (not all) elected a retarded guy for President. What's next? Bush will become an Astronaut?
When George W. Bush speaks...brain cells and Americans die.
Maybe Crooks and Liars can have on Naomi Wolf and related guests as Guest Bloggers.
She and other experts, including College professors
can explain and discuss what Bush is doing to our Country.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment
speaking of appeasing Nazis:
How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
"George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. ..."
rest of the story from the Guardian
Oh my god .... the irony is killing me.
Does Bush really think nobody is going to call him on this, considering his own family history?
Prescott Bush, anyone? His business dealings with the Nazis had more than a little to do with the family's current financial standing!
IMPEACH! INDITE! IMPRISON!
Lieberman is the sickest kind of coward, the one who tries to ingratiate himself to his bullies instead of standing up to them. Get real, Joe. You can issue statements praising them all you want, yelping "don't worry guys, I've got your back!". They see you as a useful idiot. They still think of you as liberal (ha!) scum and when you're thrown out of your Senate chairs in 2009, you can bet they won't have your back.
Darrell Kern @ 65:
That's a fallacy that's really uncalled for. Nobody is responsible for why stupid people are anti-Semitic (or racist or sexist or homophobic) except for stupid people. Period.
Yellow Elephant Safari @ 57:
Rescind his passport! Put him on the no-fly list!
Teddy Phuf @ 60:
no shit, good call
If only we'd known then what we know now.
The man should not have been allowed to reproduce.
I will no longer be visiting Connecticut. Yes, I know...they don't care. Well, neither do I.
Glenn Greenwald helping unclog the blogs (FDLake and other blogs to chicken shit) in regard to the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Crooks and liars has allowed open and honest debate (even though some folks get ugly) about this issue.
Glen is going the extra mile. This can only help
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/13/obama/index.html
And who has appeased (and pleased) Osama bin Laden ?
"Shut the
HellFUCK up!"Is anyone in the world still listening to that brain-dead piece of shit? Serve out your final few months and go the fuck away.
In addition to Naomi Wolf as a Crooks and Liars guest blogger,
I am sure Jeremy Scahill would be happy to give us all an update on Blackwater.
He could bring the BW recruits that are also outraged and have abandoned Blackwater.
They also took an oath to protect the Constitution for all enemies foreign and domestic.
Liberal AND Proud @ 83:
Ditto W. Virginia, Pennsylvania.
The Truth Hurts @ 86:
Better yet....just disappear NOW!
I have my own Special Comment:
FUCK YOU GEORGE BUSH!!
I am very bitter about this.
Teddy Phuf @ 60:
Now that you mention it, it's also interesting that he did NOT cite Bill Clinton in that list. This may come back to haunt him with some Democrats who were angry a few months ago when Obama talked about Reagan as a "transformational" president, while implying that Bill Clinton did little more than maintain the status quo.
Will Bunch writes: You have been handed an office once uplifted to great heights by fellow countrymen from Washington to Lincoln to Roosevelt to Eisenhower...
someone should let mr. bunch know that eisenhower is directly reposnsible for what iran became. a very, very, very bad example.
Bush: Appease Porridge Cold
STFU! Once and for all. Genocide is Genocide end of story and if you want some bangers, buddy…The holocaust trivializes the Spanish Inquisition or the Crusades against the Christians wherein both of these events witnessed the murders of more than 100 million innocent people.
Everyone always forgest the millions of african and african americans that suffered for hundreds of years (and still do) enduring a holocaus started by AMERICANS!!! Our hands are NOT clean either!
Isn't the George W. Bush Presidential Library an oxymoron?
Or is the President an oxygen deprived moron?
Liberal AND Proud @ 80:
Hopefully he will end up on the 10 most wanted world leaders for crimes against humanity like Kissenger. Maybe some other country can arrest him for his war crimes...since the majority of Americans have their pedals to the metal driving to the malls and are far too busy to worry about what their government has done to the Iraqi people.
As if I needed more proof to know Bush is a total ignoramus about history. Really, Bush, equating Iran, a third-rate power shunned by most of the world, with the juggernaut that was Nazi Germany? Of course, that didn't stop you with Iraq, did you?
Keep it up, Smirky. Every time you attack Obama, he probably goes up another point in the polls.
Oh and Lieberman? Comment is needless. Really looking forward to January 2009 when he becomes irrelevant in the Senate.
AND MEXICANS!!!
And this from an Administration, who through shear incompetence and arrogance, continues to bungle Iraq, Afghanistan, failed to find Osama Bin Laden, etc. If I were Obama or any other candidate for that matter, I wouldn't take Bush's words to heart. Any smear coming from the Bush Administration regarding national security just means that you are more apt to perform better at it than they do. But then again, a Kindergarden class could manage everything better than the Bush Administration.
Why oh WHY couldn't George Bush and John McCain have taken off from the same aircraft carrier at the same time.
Yellow Elephant Safari @ 57:
Send him to South American to live with the former Nazis.
The Smiths @ 87:
Yeah the Blackwater murderers walk! Justice right! And we wonder why some people around the world hate us
Mitchelle @ 37:
They're letting Lieberman dig his own proverbial grave. I'd like to think that after Democrats take a bigger majority of the Senate, Lieberman will be shown the door.
evenplayingfield @ 101:
To the Hague
It's going to take years to get the stink of this Administration removed from the White House.
This imbecile always looks like he's been on an all nite bender when he does a public appearance.
After reading about this travesty just made me want to say what Keith Olbermann (with his wisdom and candor) refused to say: G.W.B. STFU.
Every time this man open his mouth, all the evils of Pandora's box flies out of it. I mean, my goodness. This man is hated all over the globe and within our own country. He should know by now just to shut up and go to Crawford instead of spreading his filth across the globe.
You know, I would certainly hope for impeachment of Bush and his cronies. But if that doesn't happen, it is time to convince another country to sue the President over his abuse of foreign policy and the enactment of war crimes in the international courts. If no one can bring the U.S. to the I.C.C., what about a lawsuit? Can this be done so we can get a little justice here?
George...take some advice from Bill Cosby...have some coke and a smile and SHUT THE FUCK UP.
"Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama"
Umm...Did I miss something?
dude @ 76:
Hitler invaded Poland to seize the Coal and Iron fields owned by the Silesian American Coal Company - in which Prescott Bush and his buddies at Brown Brothers Harriman were investors. The mining operation had been closed by the Polish govt because the Silesian American Coal Company had not paid its taxes to the Polish government. Hitler and his American Fascist backers (Prescott Bush, Henry Ford, Averell Harriman, etc) wanted the Coal to make gasoline and the Iron and other metals to run the Nazi War Machine.
In other words, the Bush Family was at the heart of Hitler's "pre-emptive war" against Poland and it was - just like the Bush Family's "pre-emptive war" against Iran - a move to grab natural resources required to run a war machine and reap war profits.
The Silesian Coal Fields are also where the Nazis established the Auschwitz Labor Camps - to work the mines and the gasefication plant - and the Auschwitz Death Camps, to dispose of those to weak to continue to work the mines.
After the war, the US Govt handed Prescott Bush a check for $1.5 million (that's 1950 dollars) as his share of the profits from the companies the US Govt had seized from him during the war.
Once again Bush twists his own history into an accusation of a major political rival.
Gore Vidal said it best about this administration last night on Democracy Now - "They don't know anything about anything".
What? Talking to a Third World dictatorship with one of the better human rights records in the Middle East towards Jews and Christians (not so much Baha'is, though) that can barely fart and walk at the same time is equivalent to appeasing a powerful industrial dictatorship that saw politics as having all the subtlety of a cavalry charge and wreaked a vortex of death in conjuction with another equally evil dictatorship?
WHAT?
Somebody call the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Moriarity's messed with the Time Stream....
Kathleen Anna @ 14:
Monie Hussen @ 8:
How did you people not see this coming when you handed him back to the Senate two years ago. This is not a reasonable man. He smearseveryone in the Democratic party every chance he gets. He makes treacherous remarks about Sen. Obama and he is as big of a traitor to this country as Bus et al. Recall his sorry behind.
Makes one want to wax nostalgic and write an "Ode to an unfortunately dislodged pretzel" .
But then that would have made darth the pres [not that he isn't already] officially and we'd already be sitting on the smoking crater where our homes used to be.
Left&Left @ 62:
Hillary "obliterate Iran". Hillary has been done in by the right wing radicals
Flynnt Leverett who quit the Bush administration just before the illegal invasin of Iraq is a good one to read about Iran. Go to the New American Foundation
Read everything Flynt has to say
http://www.newamerica.net/pressroom/2007/pbs_interviews_flynt_leverett_o...
Also Professor Juan Cole over at Informed Comment tore into the misrepresentation of Iranain President Ahmadinejads words about Israel long ago. According to Juan Cole the Iranian President never said anything like "wipe Israel off the map" But the radicals in the Bush administration have been everywhere repeating this endlessly repeated misrepresentation
http://www.juancole.com/2006/05/hitchens-hacker-and-hitchens.html
"But the actual quote, which comes from an old speech of Khomeini, does not imply military action, or killing anyone at all. The second reason is that it is just an inexact translation. The phrase is almost metaphysical. He quoted Khomeini that "the occupation regime over Jerusalem should vanish from the page of time." It is in fact probably a reference to some phrase
Video linky no worky for me.
Besides, if history serves me correctly, it was a Democrat by the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt and later, Harry Truman that fought Nazi Germany and fought them well. The Republicans, as usual, chickened out and in George W. Bush's grandfather's case, actually worked with the Nazis. Now, I'm not saying Obama is another FDR although he may have some of the traits. What I am saying is that Obama, being the man that he is, will do what is best for the nation and if that means taking a harder line on Iran then he will do that if necessary but he will only do that as a last resort. Only a fool, resorts to warfare first and Bush has proven that he is that fool.
ThunderMonkey @ 103:
So many discussions of Nazis and the Bush cabal.
When do we get to the part with the dead dicator in the burned out bunker.
Torture, invading a soveriegn nation under false pretense, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians ... guess it never crossed the Chimp's mind that he fits the description of a Nazi?
Shut that fucking idiot up ... actually never mind, he's doing the Dem's a huge favour every time he opens his shithole.
Cheers,
Marvin
what bush did today is beyond the pale
right now dennis praeger is analyzing olberman's rant from last night line by line, calling him the most intellectually dishonest journalist in america
sorry praeger, but the president that you support, who ko ranted against, is the most criminal politician in america
today, bush committed treason
so where is the firing squad
Attention Hamas:
In case you haven't noticed, airline tickets to the US ain't getting any cheaper. If you guys ever wanted to get "up close and personal" to Chimpy, our least favorite circus animal, I'd suggest visiting it soon over there. Bring it pretzels too.
Kathleen Anna @ 104:
He needs to be scooped up in the middle of the night and deposited at a secret prison at an undisclosed location and forgotten.
Hey! A little good news. The California Supremes just overturned the ban on Same Sex Marriages :D
Sorry Site Monitor, I know it's OT but it's a little good news... right?
Now Dumbya is playing dumb saying he didn't insinuate Obama as the appeasing senator. BULLSHIT! Its as bad as McCain blaming his old age for his stupid 'Senior Moments" BS ON THAT TOO!
Fuck Bush.
I suppose we should have never talked to the Russians during the cold war. We should have just nuked them? Or during the Cuban missile crisis. Just lob some nukes and call it a day? Or why talk to anybody? If they do something we don't like, bomb them. Of course Condi's diplomatic ability does not seem to be very rewarding does it? Keep opening your pie hole you asshole, Bush. The more he babbles the easier the November election is going to be.
For personal health reasons, I don't ever listen to this goof. I just can't take Bush anymore. Every time he speaks he either lies or says something really stupid....or both.
MargeAggedon @ 125:
Please stay focused Marge. The topic is Bush and his mouth. lol
Quick History Lesson for right wingnut idiots:
1a) Hitler used Reichstag fire to turn his country into a hateful, vengeful, power hungry, genocidal killing apparatus
1b) Bush used 9/11 in much the same way, thank God we had the balance of Democracy on our side, despite his and the right wingnut machinations of a 'unitary executive' (cute word for king/emperor/fuhrer) and propaganda that we need a 'strong leader' who pisses in the wind no matter what....however, the venom that prevailed allowed him and his crime family to turn many Americans into that above mentioned appartus
2a) Hitler created a 'private army'/mercenaries called the brown shirts which 'enforced' the will of the leader upon the masses, the Gestapo/SS....while disbanding and recreating Germany's military forces with his megalomaniacal madness as the mantra for its existence
2b) Bush created Homeland security (gee...kinda like 'fatherland' hmmm...), enlisted mercenary firms like Blackwater which are unacountable to Geneva conventions (gee...WWII again), legal action (under this corrupt DOJ/crime family), privatized military actions & war as 1st resort/made 'pre-emptive war' a reality....
3a) Hitler invaded Poland, a country that had never attacked territorial Germany
3b) Bush invaded Iraq, a country that had never attacked the territorial United States
4a) Hitler used 'suprise' government (propaganda) to quell dissent & attain absolute power
4b) Bush used 'shock & awe' and faux patriotism (propaganda) to quell dissent & attain absolute power
5a) Hitler & his handlers/followers verbally attacked/assaulted Jewish faith followers, Gay, Catholics, Gypsies, and ethnic minorities and sent them to their death
5b) Bush & his handlers/followers verbally attacked/assaulted ethnic minorities, Gays, Catholics (Hagee/Fallwell/Dobson, et al) and killed over 100,000+ innocent Iraqis (women and children), displaced 4 million others creating one the worst refugee crisis in Iraq's 5,000 history (give or take a millenia)
Now....that's a small, short, quick list....you might want to drop this while you're a-head....
And if the above doesn't 'do it' for you....consider that Prescott Bush & the Bush family fortune is directly attributable to his war crimes & Union Bank's in financing the Nazi War Machine....yep, that's right your favorite Neo-con puppet family, the Bushes (failed Oil barrons) made their money off of the most despotic regime in history....so all you idiots still displaying your W04 stickers...suck that in....and take a long cold shower
It is good news MargeAggedon, the rightwing use these laws to discriminate as a wedge to turn us against eachother. Bravo California.
Any statement about appeasing nazis has a Twilight zone quality about it when it comes from the mouth of a Bush, given that the Bush Crime Family financed Hitler from the inception of the nazi party through the end of WWII. If you are interested in a thorough and scholarly presentail of all the sordid details, from how large an operation the Bush's ran to the names of the institutions and players involved (you'll recognize many of the names) see the online book (free):
http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm
This should have been mandatory reading for all registered voters in 2000 and 2004, but better late than never.
Take it as a given that Bush is doing McCin's dirty work for him.
Joe Lieberman: America's best shonda for the goyim since 2003.
Sounds like Pre - COLD WAR tactics I guess Reagan did the wrong thing, we should still be at war with the Russian Communists, forget Dialogue.............
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Captain Bitter Elitist Husein Kangaroo @ 130:
You're right :D Sorry!! ;)
Why the fuck is this guy still walking upright, when JFK and MLK were slain in the throws of greatness?
Sometimes I wonder how much more of this jingoistic idiocy I can take, and by golly, here they come with another steaming load the next day.
It will be over soon, 249 more days.
Joe Biden: “This is bullshit. This is malarkey." http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
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President Bush, all I have to say is that one day, through the telescope of history, your legacy will be defined as a shrewd and desperate attempt to make anything political, and that after lying this country into war and having never once taken any measure of responsibility for those lies, nor made any apologies for them, you stooped to any low to make our opponents appear as traitors and yourself seem omniscient. History will judge you, GEORGE, on your failure to prevent 9/11, lying the United States into war with Iraq, spying on your own citizens without a warrant, and making your opponents and critics appear as unpatriotic and traitors. May this country, the next generation, and history forgive you.
The Champ is out.
What the hell? Bush relies so heavily on the ignorance of the American public that he is willing to accuse Obama of the exact crime his own flesh and blood has committed!!!
This is completely insane of him! I hope Olbermann destroys him over this. I have absolutely no faith in the fact that anyone else will bring up the obvious hypocritical contradiction/conflict of interest in the accusation itself.
Bush is not dumb, he's not confused, he's not dilluted! He's an asshole, plain and simple!
Want to know what's really going on here? Go read
this lengthy but extremely informative report:
The Israeli Model Surges Toward Iraq
The New Walls of Baghdad
http://counterpunch.com/niva04282008.html
I assure you it will be time well spent.
Bush is a schwance!
In a battle of wits, Bush wouldn't find the field.
Ah.... if only Hitler were alive today... he'd... he'd be so proud that even though he lost in the short term... (sniff) fascism is alive and well around the world... and his name is used about once every five seconds on TV... and that there are more books about him than Jesus.... Ah Hitler, where would the GOP be without you?
I love this site but why is it when a video is posted it is always not working right away? It usually takes like an hour or so after they post it for it to work.
schwerpunkt @ 145:
Calling Democrats Communists-Oh, wait, they already did. It was called the Cold War. ;-)
NO more apologies! No more, "That's not what I said, let me explain myself....". No. Now we just go on the offensive: we call them on their miserable record. We remind the American public that these
guys are inept. And let Bush go back to golf.....and let McCain go back to whereever. They're both stupid and incompetent. And we just need to say it over and over again. The Repubs everywhere are
in a panic and on the defensive....just laugh at them, just call them what they are. Be succinct, be direct, but don't spare anyone, even Bush.
Odd that Obama would mention Reagan and Iran in the same paragraph .. does Obama have “a cake and a Bible” ready ?
Ollie North .. Obama's office is trying to reach you.
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