Bush’s Islamic Appeasement Greatly Damaged America

American Thinker ^ | 14 Sep, 2026 | J.B. Shurk

[MtnClimber]

Islam is an ideology of war and conquest, not a religion of peace.

Last Thursday, President George W. Bush sat down with his former secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, to discuss the September 11, 2001, Islamic terror attacks on the United States. While reflecting on his actions twenty-five years earlier, Bush went out of his way to defend Islam: “I also made it clear that Islam was a religion of peace, not a religion of war, and that these people subverted their religion.” Bush’s absurd statement echoed a similarly absurd statement he made days after the attacks when he told the world, “Islam is peace,” even though the burned bodies of three thousand dead Americans strongly suggested otherwise. There have been 50,000 Islamic terror attacks since 9/11. Without question, Islam is a cult of conquest, misery, and war.

Bush’s Islamic appeasement angered me twenty-five years ago, and his continued appeasement infuriates me today. I cannot believe that the man who asked Americans to go to war against an Islamic menace that threatened (and still threatens) the world can be so intellectually shallow and morally obtuse. “Islam is a religion of peace,” is a disingenuous stock phrase that is too cute by half. President Barack Obama loves to tell the same lie.

While Americans fought and died in foreign lands in an effort to keep Islam’s homicidal evil from causing further harm to the United States, Bush and Obama resettled Muslims into America’s heartland. Twenty-five years ago, the sight of a woman wearing a burqa in the Midwest would have shocked and worried passersby. Today, it is too common for anyone to feign surprise. Both the number of Muslims and the number of mosques in the United States have more than doubled since the Islamic terror attacks that changed our country

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: islam; jihad

[MtnClimber]

Religion of peace? What a joke. The religion of pieces.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Their false prophet was a bloodthirsty warrior and pedophile.

Everything that sprang from him came from him and who and what he was.

[C210N]

Which Bush?

George “Kite Plane Hit Steel Must” Bush, that’s the one.

[bk1000]

I can’t remember when I have been so disappointed and angry as when W made that remark. I thought we were finally about to kick butt and take names. W can kiss my lily white a**.

[Arkady]

Notice how Jorge pals around with the clintons and even obama? But he snubs Trump every chance he gets. Lousy globalist New World Order guy just like his CIA pappy.

[PGalt]

The evidence and history of this evil is there.

[Kudsman]

Little Lies - Fleetwood Mac

[Ciaphas Cain]

George W. Bush: the most DESTRUCTIVE president of the past fifty years.

[Kudsman]

It must run in the family.

Read my lips.

Religion of peace.

Everything Jeb

[boycott]

W. Bush was the biggest buffoon to ever set in the White House. His father was an ex CIA globalist pig.

[Leaning Right]

> George W. Bush: the most DESTRUCTIVE president of the past fifty years. <

The worst since LBJ, for sure. Could be the worst ever.

Bush II let Islam off the hook, to the extent that it is now more powerful than it was before 9/11. Sure, Obama and Biden also damaged the country.

But the country and the world will be paying for Bush II’s errors a century from now.

[faithhopecharity]

Not only did Bush seriously compromise America, it was OBVIOUS at the time that he was.

Undoubtably paid off “royally.”

[reasonisfaith]

It’s not that Bush is intellectually shallow.

It’s that he’s complicit.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

While reflecting on his actions twenty-five years earlier, Bush went out of his way to defend Islam: “I also made it clear that Islam was a religion of peace, not a religion of war, and that these people subverted their religion.”

This is the worst part. He reflects 25 years later and says the same thing. Stupid and clueless. Living in an insulated fantasy world. Islam is a religion of peace. What about the UK rape gangs, George? Explain how Islam is a religion of peace to the 12-year-old girls who were passed around by adult Islamic men who view Chrisian British girls as property. But its not just Islam that George was and still is clueless about. The illegals flooding over the border from Latin America aren't gang members, human traffickers and drug dealers, they're good-hearted people just looking for a better life.