Who is having the delusion?

Congratulations to Israel for reaching its 60th year. I am sure the country is proud to have the U.S. President make an official visit and to say in a speech that it is "a delusion to attempt to negotiate with America's enemies in the Middle East."

The question is who is delusional? Those who attempt to negotiate? Or those who declare war on false grounds?

Bush appeasement slur angers Democrats

Obama outraged by president's claim that talking to US foes in Middle East is like negotiating with Hitler

• Ewen MacAskill and Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
• The Guardian,
• Friday May 16 2008

President George Bush used a visit to Israel yesterday to denounce Democratic party offers to negotiate with America's enemies in the Middle East as comparable to appeasement of Hitler. Although Bush did not name any Democratic politician, the party's presidential contender Barack Obama has offered to open negotiations with the Iranian leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad.

Obama and other Democratic leaders expressed outrage at being compared to the Nazis, especially on a visit to Israel. They also condemned Bush for breaking a long-time convention against using foreign visits to score domestic points.

Obama described it as a "false political attack", saying he had never advocated talking to terrorists, while Joe Biden, the Democratic chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, said: "This is bullshit." The Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, described Bush's comments as "beneath the dignity of his office".

Speaking during a visit to the Knesset, where he was attending celebrations to mark Israel's 60th anniversary, Bush said it was a foolish delusion to think it was possible to negotiate with extremists and terrorists. "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,'" Bush said...

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A message to the Pope about the ICE Raids

Dear Pope Benedict,
Imagine that your flock, hundreds of whom were arrested in ICE raids today, are in agony, as Jesus was. Will you do something to stop the raids?

The day after the Pope arrives in the U.S. - the Department of Homeland Security has gathered its resources to produce a major offensive against undocumented immigrants (but not their employers).

The timing has the air of a mystery novel.

Welcome to America Pope Benedict. Our Jekyll and Hyde administration has offered you birthday cake in the Blue Room. They have fawned on you all day. You must be feeling very special tonight.

As George and Laura Bush smile at you a more sinister situation is moving swiftly behind the scenes.

Like an army who has begun a planned attack = undocumented people are being arrested all over the country today. I don't believe there have ever been this many raids in one day (at least in recent memory)

What is the administration saying to you Holy Father? They are saying you are admirable and they like being seen with you = but they stab you and your people as they give you a birthday abrazo. Beware of the knife in the other hand.

Mr. Hyde - aka Mr. Bush is all smiles and talks about the need for clarity regarding right and wrong... yet his alter persona, Dr. Jekyll sent a secret message to his minion, Michael Chertoff. "Go forth and get all the illegals today. Just be sure not to arrest any administrative employees of the plants you are raiding."

Bush and Chertoff et al know that the heart of the Catholic Church in the United States is the Latino population, especially the immigrants. They are the new blood that has revived the American Church and has made it thrive while its European counterparts are like ghost churches.

What a better way to show who is more powerful. Beware of presidents who bring birthday cakes - to holy men. They could have an entirely different and brutal agenda while they smile and kiss your hand.