John McCain -- lying or delusional?

Senator John McCain, who has been critical of President Bush on the environment and other policies this week (author's note -- BULLSHIT. McCain agrees with Bush on EVERYTHING.), on Thursday morning wholeheartedly endorsed Mr. Bush’s veiled rebuke in the Israeli Knesset of Senator Barack Obama that talking to "terrorists and radicals" was no different than appeasing Hitler and the Nazis.

"Yes, there have been appeasers in the past, and the president is exactly right, and one of them is Neville Chamberlain," Mr. McCain told reporters on his campaign bus after a speech in Columbus, Ohio. "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."

Is McCain talking about the 1980 Iranian hostage crisis? In that one, the Reagan campaign worked behind the scenes to keep the hostages IN IRAN to create a negative impact on President Carter's reelection chances. Reagan certainly didn't talk tough to make Iran release the hostages.

Is he talking about the one that happened later in the 1980s? In that one Reagan sold plane loads of missiles to Iran in exchange for the hostages. Only the facts that his administration was nearly over and that he was clearly losing his mental faculties kept Congress from impeaching him. If that's not "appeasement", then I don't know what is.

Remember this bullshit every time a member of the media tells you about McCain's integrity and candor and "straight talk".