After villifying Barack Obama for suggesting that it is always better to talk than make war, the Bush administration is sending a senior diplomat to international nuclear conversations with Iran.

The other Bushite hypocrite whose nose gets browner by the minute , Sid "There-will-be-many-wars; I-can-win-wars' McSame, who excoriated Obama for saying diplomatic efforts are always better than war, hasn't said a peep about this development.

As AFP reports: "In a major policy shift, the White House and State Department said Under Secretary of State William Burns would attend the Saturday talks with Iran on a "one-time" mission to underline US conditions for ending the atomic stalemate.

"White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Burns would go to Geneva "to listen" to Tehran's reply to a new incentives offer for freezing uranium enrichment -- a program the West fears conceals a drive for nuclear weapons.

" 'We are not there to negotiate,' she stressed.

"Citing a "new tactic" but no change in substance, Rice's spokesman Sean McCormack said Washington decided to send Burns to Geneva to try to shape the outcome of a new "debate" in Iran partly prompted by the offer."

But, if it walks like a duck.....

"Former State Department official Suzanne Maloney told AFP that the US diplomatic move marks "a departure" from earlier Bush policy "because it effectively endorses the idea of talks without preconditions."

"However, the Brookings Institution Iran analyst complained that the restrictions around Burns are "ludicrous" and the move may come too late to achieve any real results."

ThinkProgress adds more to the picture: "The Bush administration has decided to “send a senior American official to participate in international talks with Iran this weekend,” effectively abandoning “its longstanding position that it will only meet face-to-face with Iran after it first suspends uranium enrichment.”:

President George W. Bush has authorized the most significant U.S. diplomatic contact with Iran since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, sending the U.S. State Department’s third-ranking official to Geneva for a meeting this weekend on Iran’s nuclear program, administration officials said.

The decision appeared to bend, if not exactly break, the administration’s insistence that it would not negotiate with Iran over its nuclear programs unless it first suspended uranium enrichment.

"Bush’s decision to allow American diplomats to meet with Iranian officials — while welcome — is surprising. In fact, just two months ago, Bush said, in a speech before the Israeli parliament, that those who favor rigorous diplomacy with Iran (including his own Defense Secretary) are supporting a policy of appeasement toward terrorists: 

"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.” We have an obligation to call this what it is – the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

As the White House spins to cover its blatant foreign policy hypocrisy, it leaves Bush's Bobbsey twin, McSame's campaign to spin and lie as best it can.  McBush's bus and plane should be labeled the Hypocrite Express.