If that's true then let's hear Bush or Rice clarify.
Stop excusing Bush for his own State Department. If he disagrees he should say so publicly. He has done so at least once before. If he does not, we must conclude that he agrees with them, siding with the Sharia-Uber-Alles crowd over Western values. The main problem in this is how everyone keeps saying "Islamic law forbids visual expressions of the 'Prophet'". So what! The people who made these cartoons were NOT Muslims. Are we to conclude that just because Muslims are prone to violence at a moment's notice, that non-Muslims now have to obey Muslim laws? It is absurd, and the State Department's statement was repulsive.
It is the Bush State Department.
If the Bush Admin doesn't have control of it, they don't need to be trying to run the Executive Branch.
Bush is now in his 2nd term. It is the Bush State Department. Any trouble-making Clinton hold-overs ARE Bush's fault, now.
Don't know about the beat down, but I looked up the name on the state department website, and he's about as low in the pecking order as one can get and still be in DC.
One of the dumbest excuses found much too frequently on FreeRepblic to excuse our side.
Why always stop at Clinton, maybe it was a holdover from Bush I or Eisenhower even?