W has never stated that the minutemen are vigilantes anymore than he stated Saddam was responsible for 911.
Produce the quote without all the inference and inuendo.
You cannot.
Bush supports what the minutemen are doing as it is their right to do what they are doing. He has never said he opposes what they are or have been doing. He has stated that what they are doing is a first ammendment issue and they have the right to what they are doing. FACT IS that after 911 he asked for this very thing. Remember?
Remember? Be vigilant.
I laugh at your same paragraph deal. The word minutemen was not in his words used when speaking of the minutemen. Indeed that word was from someone else. As i said before, he ducked the issue when he answered as he did.
One part about minutemen was a question.
His answer was about vigilantes.
He has never said that the minutemen had undertaken any actions he classified as vigilante.
Can you post where he has? Nope.
There is one key difference between the two.
Plenty of people have disputed attempts by the left to say Bush linked 9/11 and Saddam because it clearly was an attempt by the left to warp what Bush had said.
No one that I know of has attempted to claim that, because Bush did not specifically mention the Minutemen in response to the question, that he was not referring to them. It so happens that the Minutemen were in the news big-time when this conference was happening, and the question was directed by a journalist in response to those stories. So rational people clearly belief that Bush was referring to the Minutemen.
In other words, in the context of the news that day about the Minutemen, it was clear who the subject was. And just in case it wasn't what Bush really meant at the time, McClellan was offered the opportunity to clarify at a press conference, as another poster had noted. McClellan declined to do so.