Ticomaya wrote:teenyboone wrote:Another misused word, "appeasement"! Please look it up! Bush should never use it, since he doesn't read and his speech writers make him look more stupid, because everyone KNOWS, he's as DUMB as a POST!
Please enlighten us, teenyboone. How has Bush misused the word "appeasement"?
Always ask a question you already KNOW the answer to huh?
Appeasement, literally: calming, reconciling, acquiring peace by way of concessions or gifts (the verb 'to pay' also goes back to the Latin 'pax' = peace). Most commonly, appeasement is used for the policy of accepting the imposed conditions of an aggressor in lieu of armed resistance, usually at the sacrifice of principles. Usually it means giving in to demands of an aggressor in order to avoid war. Since World War II, the term has gained a negative connotation in the British government, in politics and in general, of weakness, cowardice and self-deception.
A famous example is Neville Chamberlain's foreign policy during the period 1937-1939, when he pursued a policy of appeasement towards Adolf Hitler's expansionist ambitions.
Your leader, Bush, used the term against Democrats, again labeling them as "weak", conciliatory, painting them with a broad brush, when he spoke in Israel at the Knesset. Whoever wrote the speech for him, KNEW exactly what the effect, would be!
You Repugs are sad examples of so-called Americans! You roil the waters every chance you get, instead of unifying with your fellow countrymen! You hide behind lapel pins and the NRA, but I don't see ANY republicans strapping on a uniform to defend this country or fight Bush's draconian policies. For 8 years, you allowed a mad man to screw this country and its' citizens. You deserve Bush, Rove, Cheney and the sexual deviants, that call themselves "christians" and spew phrases like "family values", while they screw pages and buy whores, on government time!
SATISFIED?