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(NECN/ABC) - Democrats are taking offense at remarks President Bush made before the Israel Knesset -- comments that compare Nazi appeasers to those who might negotiate with today's rogue states.

Mr. Bush may have moved onto Saudi Arabia, but at home, fallout from those remarks continue.

A parting shot from a President who will soon be out of office.

Bush: "Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals."

Speaking in Israel, George Bush played the Hitler card -- the political equivalent of going nuclear.Bush: "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."

The White House now admits the comment was partly aimed at Senator Barack Obama, who has offered to sit down with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other rogue leaders.

Obama: "As John F Kennedy said, we should never negotiate out of fear but we should never fear to negotiate."

Obama objected to what he called "a false political attack." Democrats quickly leaped to his defense -- including Senator Clinton.

Clinton: "President Bush's comparison of any Democrat to Nazi appeasers is both offensive and outrageous."

Republican John McCain begged to differ.

McCain: "He wants to sit down across the table from an individual who leads a country that says Israel is a stinking corpse, that is dedicated to the extinction of Israel.

This issue is likely to be a major point of contention in the general election. What's unusual is: not just that President Bush waded into the middle of it, but that he did so an ocean away, on foreign soil.

ABC's David Wright reports.