Bush Makes Remarks About Appeasers and Angers…The Appeasers

Everyone’s up in arms about the comments President Bush made while at the Knesset in Israel. Pelosi’s whining that it’s “beneath the office of the President,” Biden’s coming unglued, and all the Dems are lining up behind to slap someone’s wrist and say “poo on you.”

What’s the horrible quote in question?

“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 in an address to the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, on Thursday. “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.”

What’s the ruckus about? I say amen, amen, and kudos to Bush for saying it. Of course, it’s a bit late, since anti-war appeasement Dems are about as out of control as can be. But the sentiment is nice.