Dean: John McCain Should Denounce Bush's Remarks

Source: PRNewswire

WASHINGTON, May 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today responded to President Bush's outrageous comments that according to CNN, suggested that "Democrats are in favor of 'appeasement' of terrorists in the same way U.S. leaders appeased Nazis in the run-up to World War II."


"On the same day John McCain is talking about putting partisanship aside, the President launched a cheap political attack while on a state visit honoring the 60th anniversary of Israel, one of America's greatest allies. Bush's outrageous comments are an embarrassment to our country, not based in fact and bring us no closer to our goal of ending terrorist attacks against Israel and bringing peace to the region. If John McCain is really serious about being a different kind of Republican, he'll denounce these remarks in the strongest terms possible."


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MCain Agrees With Bush’s Remarks on Appeasement
By Elisabeth Bumiller

Senator John McCain, who has been critical of President Bush on the environment and other policies this week, on Thursday morning wholeheartedly endorsed Mr. Bush’s veiled rebuke in the Israeli Knesset on Senator Barack Obama that talking to “terrorists and radicals'’ was no different than appeasing Hitler and the Nazis.

“Yes, there have been appeasers in the past, and the president is exactly right, and one of them is Neville Chamberlain,'’ Mr. McCain told reporters on his campaign bus after a speech in Columbus, Ohio. “I believe that it’s not an accident that our hostages came home from Iran when President Reagan was president of the United States. He didn’t sit down in a negotiation with the religious extremists in Iran, he made it very clear that those hostages were coming home.'’

Asked if he thought that former President Jimmy Carter, who struggled with the hostage crisis, was an appeaser, Mr. McCain replied: “I don’t know if he was an appeaser or not, but he terribly mishandled the Iranian hostage crisis.'’

Asked if he thought Mr. Obama was an appeaser — the Democratic candidate has said he would be willing to meet with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran — Mr. McCain sidestepped and said, “I think that Barack Obama needs to explain why he wants to sit down and talk with a man who is the head of a government that is a state sponsor of terrorism, that is responsible for the killing of brave young Americans, that wants to wipe Israel off the map, who denies the Holocaust. That’s what I think Senator Obama ought to explain to the American people.'’

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Reaction to Bush 'appeasement' remark 15 May 2008 15:52:11 GMT
JOHN KERRY, MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATIC SENATOR, ON MSNBC

"What an irony to have the current president in Israel blasting Democrats from the Knesset when his policies have actually seen al Qaeda get strengthened, they've seen al Qaeda be reconstructed, they've seen Hezbollah get stronger, they've seen Hamas get stronger, Israel more threatened, Iran is stronger and Iraq is in chaos."

"This is a disgraceful statement by the president ... He ought to apologize to the American people for going to Israel and using the Knesset and the celebration of the 60th anniversary of a state and a people that we all support and that we're all proud of and using it for politics."

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N15292434.htm

that the pre WWII Nazi appeasers were right wingers--you know, your friendly neighborhood conservative.

Just added it to the OP :hi:

Why expect anything different. He just played the 'Maverick' on TV....

Arms for Hostages?

Okay, Johnny let's drag all of that back out into the sunlight shall we? It's been laying in the stinking dungeon of "Reagan Legacies" for a while now, time to air it out.

Impeachment sets the historical record straight. Few Republicans want to talk about Nixon. This is why Bush must be impeached.

We need to ALL be outraged. And once we win in November the first thing that needs to happen is evidence gathered and used to arrest Bush and as many fuckers in his admin as legally possible.

FUCK the repukes.

Every last traitorous one of them.

FUCK the repukes.

Every last traitorous one of them.

OBAMA: "So, Senator McCain, rather than talk to Ahmedinejad, what would you have us do instead? Nuke his country into rubble? That's just stupid. Do you realize that would be the end of everything? Now, I know you're already 71 and have had a good run, but I'm only 48 and I'd eventually like to become old too."

This is the kind of rewriting of history, from McCain, should tell Democrats to impeach a president for impeachable offenses. Congress didn't impeach Reagan when it was its clear duty. Impeachment at least sets the record straight. This is why Bush must be impeached.

What was all that hand-wringing about how split the Democratic party had become over the primary race? And Dean's call for McCain to denounce Bunnypants is a windmill thunder-dunk in the face of the best defender. Excellent and bravo!

we have not been attacked since 9/11, Bush did that! Scary the mentality that is still out there.

We want him in the DNC keeping it clean over there.

He can run as VP and still keep his position for the fall elections.

McAwful was around forever during the Clinton years.