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US president
George W. Bush addressed the
Israeli legislature, known as the Knesset. Certain of his remarks were seen by Democrats as an attack on the idea of withdrawing from
Iraq and on presidential candidate
Barack Obama, whose campaign platform includes a timetable for complete withdrawal, in particular. Bush supporters have argued that Bush mentioned neither Obama nor Democrats, but this is disingenuous; Bush has clearly established that he equates dissent with treason, and those who support him see the democrats and all those who would withdraw from
Iraq as "traitors" who "want us to lose".
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- 2008-05-19 /S/D/ Obama's Iraq challenge: debate me “Until now, Barack Obama's attacks on John McCain have invariably been preceded with an honouring of the Arizona senator's military service and his status as a "true American hero" for the five years he spent as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. .. But the courtesy went missing last week as Obama and McCain had their first serious down-and-dirty scrap over foreign policy and national security. .. The impetus was George W. Bush's controversial speech to the Israeli parliament, in which he said people advocating negotiations with "terrorists and radicals" were deluded and were promoting "the false comfort of appeasement".”
- 2008-05-15 /S/D/ Pelosi: Bush comments 'beneath the dignity of the office' “Democratic House leaders are calling out President Bush for a speech in Israel in which he seemed to suggest that Sen. Barack Obama wants the United States to "negotiate with terrorists."”
