What exactly SHOULD he have said in answer to these questions? "The cartoons are accurate, Mohammed was a piece of sh*t"?
That would go over REALLY well with our Muslim allies like Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
I think a lot of people are overreacting to this statement, and most aren't even reading the whole thing.
Ya think? After reading comments about it for the past day or so, and now seeing the transcript, I feel some of us live in an alternate universe.
We have no Muslim "allies". Don't delude yourself.