RANDOM RANTER RANTS:

President Shrub appeared before Israel's parliament, the Knesset, and likened
the proposals of (an unnamed) Barack Obama to open discussions with Iran, etc.,
to appeasement of the Nazis.  He offered the following historical comparison and
said:

"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."

Just for background: The unnamed "American Senator" he quotes was William Borah
-- a REPUBLICAN isolationist who opposed the Treaty of Versailles and U.S.
participation in the League of Nations.  Borah also was the long-time lover of
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, who was married
to Nicholas Longworth, the Speaker of the House, while Borah was bedding her.
Historians now believe that Alice Longworth's only child, a daughter, actually
was fathered by Borah, not Longworth.  Just another fine example of Republican
moral hypocrisy -- even then...!

CNN reports that Senator Joe Biden of Delaware, chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee (a post once held by Borah) didn't mince words when
responding to Bush. Biden said, "This is bullshit. This is malarky. This is
outrageous."  CNN says that Biden added that "if the president disagrees so
strongly with the idea of talking to Iran then he needs to fire his secretaries
of State and Defense, both of whom Biden said have pushed to sit down with the
Iranians."

But we know how well Bush takes the high ground.  After all, he revealed that he
GAVE UP GOLF to support our troops in harm's way.  I'm sure parents of those
who've come home in a box -- or missing arms or legs or eyes or half their
brains -- really appreciate the President's immense sacrifice in abstaining from
double bogies for the duration.  Is the man even more stupid than we imagined? 
Apparently so....