Obama attacks warmongers McCain and Bush

"George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for.."

Barack Obama has had it with President Bush's and John McCain's hypocrisy and of lying about his position on dialogue with nations hostile to the United States. Friday morning he told a South Dakota crowd "If George Bush and John McCain want to have a debate about protecting the United States of America, that is a debate that I'm happy to have any time, any place and that is debate I will win because George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for."

"I'm a strong believer in civility and I'm a strong believer in a bipartisan foreign policy, but that cause is not served with dishonest, divisive attacks of the sort that we've seen out of George Bush and John McCain over the last couple days, " Obama said Friday.

"I'm running for president to change course, not to continue George Bush's course," Obama said. "I want to be perfectly clear with George Bush and John McCain, and with the people of South Dakota," he said at a campaign stop. "If George Bush and John McCain want to have a debate about protecting the United States of America, that is a debate that I'm happy to have any time, any place and that is debate I will win because George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for."

In comments attacking Obama before the Israeli Knesset Thursday, Bush said Obama's foreign policy views are the same as those of Nazi appeasers in the years before World War II. Obama lashed ot at Bush for the remarks Friday, calling them "the kind of appalling attack that's divided our country and that alienates us from the world."

Obama also said that John McCain was not qualified to protect the nation. "[John McCain] talked about elevating the tone of debate in our country. He talked about reaching out in a bipartisan fashion to the other side. Then not an hour later he turned around and embraced George Bush's attack on Democrats," said Obama, who called the Arizona senator's Iran policy "naïve and irresponsible."

"He jumped on a call with a bunch of bloggers and said that I wasn't fit to protect this nation that I love because I wanted to sit down and negotiate with tough diplomacy with countries like Iran. Accused me of not being fit...[or] being able to protect this nation," he added.

He said both Bush and McCain "have a lot to answer for" over the war in Iraq and the failure to find Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda's continuing strength, among other continuing foreign policy problems. "They are going to have to explain why it is that Iran is able to fund Hezbollah and poses the greatest threat to America and Israel and the Middle East in a generation. That's the Bush-McCain record on protecting this country.

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