“Barack Obama accused President George W. Bush of ‘a false political attack’ yesterday after Bush warned in Israel against appeasing terrorists — early salvos in a general election campaign that’s already blazing. The White House denied that Bush’s remark was aimed at Obama. … As the workday began in the United States, Bush gave a speech to Israel’s Knesset in which he spoke of the president of Iran, who has called for the destruction of the U.S. ally. Then, Bush said: ‘Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.’ ‘We have heard this foolish delusion before,’ Bush said. ‘As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all 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.’” (05/16/08)