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CBS From CBS News John Bentley: Calling Barack Obama naiuml;ve and inexperienced, John McCain sharpened th stanley cup price e Republican criticism that President Bush alluded to earlier today. Why does Barack Obama want to sit down with a state sponsor of terrorism McCain asked today, referring to Obama s willingness to negotiate with Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad. What does he want to talk about with Ahmadinejad, who said that Israel is a stinking corpse, who said that he wants to wipe Israel off the map, who is sending the most explosive devices into Iraq, killing Americans. While not mentioning Obama directly, Bush had harsh words for those who would negotiate with rogue states. 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, the president said at a celebration of Israel s 60th anniversary. 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 ndash; the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history. McCain did not call Obama an appeaser, either, but did say he believed Obama needed to further explain his views. stanley cup I think Barack Obama needs to sit down and expla stanley cup in why he wants to talk with the man w |
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