NEWS BRIEF: “Conservatives dispute Bush on Islam: Critics, include some policy advisers, call stance political” by Dana Milbank, The Washington Post, carried by MSNBC News, November 30, 2002.
“President Bush finds himself in a rare disagreement with conservatives in his party over his efforts to portray Islam as a peaceful religion that is not responsible for anti-American terrorism. In a score of speeches since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the president has called for tolerance of Muslims, describing Islam as “a faith based upon peace and love and compassion” and a religion committed to “morality and learning and tolerance.”
I want to see you stand in fronts of a billion or so Muslims and tell hem we are at war with all of them...
Well, the guy isn’t perfect .. and I guess that tells us neither are we.
I never agreed with GW on that assessment of Islam .. and I never will.