In the Cold War, we did talk to the USSR. Instead if reacting with horror and cries of shame, it might be better to explain that Bush's reaction is factually wrong -- we do have a history of talking with our enemies who are not in a hot war of aggression with our allies. What Iran is doing in supporting groups active in Lebanon Iraq etc. is pretty much like what the USSR did in supporting Cuba w/ putting missiles there, trying to take over Greece in 1949, pressuring Berlin, etc. In the entire period of WW2 thru the fall of the USSR we talked with the Soviet Union.

Crying "shame" jumping to denouncment, etc. is politic-y.

Explaining what our real history is w/ use of force, diplomacy and when we talk and when we don't, would be a real change.

And I guess talking to North Korea didn't work either, or Libya, or...

It is my opinion, like many other peoples opinion in the world that George W. Bush and his Administration worked and continue to work hard at whitewashing their official and secret actions during their tenure of control of the Office of the President of the United States of America.

I do not believe it should be a reflection on either Senators Obama or McCain or Cinton as to the relationship of hearsay at this point and interpretation of political manuvers for newspaper headlines and quick quotes and sound bites.

We all know how the political machine loves contraversy.

All an art student has to do today to include themselves in suspicious actions if they are singled out or groups of peoples activities singled out and identified is look up the old and new artisits published works on the holocost,

and interpretive stances of individual reasonings and investigations from a students perspective,

include volital discourse between differing subsets of groups of people congrigating and that student can in this day and age find themselves ostricized for being

" out of fashion " for what is politically p.c. or "hip".

I did just that recently with a book on puppets and dolls made of Hitler, and let me tell you personally... it has affected my dreams.

Bush knows nothing of decency, but seriously.

It's like trashing your frenemy during a commencement speech.

“I believe that it’s not an accident that our hostages came home from Iran when President Reagan was president of the United States. He didn’t sit down in a negotiation with the religious extremists in Iran, he made it very clear that those hostages were coming home.'’

A quick google turned this up: "After the election, with the assistance of Algerian intermediaries, successful negotiations began. On Jan. 20, 1981, the day of President Reagan's inauguration, the United States released almost $8 billion in Iranian assets and the hostages were freed after 444 days in Iranian detention; the agreement gave Iran immunity from lawsuits arising from the incident."

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0825448.html

So a) Reagan was not president when the hostages were release, and b) there very clearly was a negotiation (which presumably he and his transition team were involved in) that included $8 billion unfrozen assets and legal immunity.