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Troubling, tired tactic

Bush engages in fear-mongering in his address to the Knesset in Israel

There they go again. Republicans peddling fear. The most recent offender was President George W. Bush. Addressing Israel's Knesset yesterday, he took a moment to play down-and-dirty domestic politics, linking anyone who would talk with the nation's enemies to those who succumbed to "the false comfort of appeasement" in 1939 "as Nazi tanks crossed into Poland."

That's a mother lode of incendiary...

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