You know....this accusation of President Bush calling the actual Minutemen, "vigilantes"...is as bogus, and tiresome, as the accusation that when he was on that aircraft carrier, the "Mission Accomplished" sign was regarding the war in Iraq...
You can word parse all you want. Throw up the whole quote and you'll just look silly.
Groups Decry Renegade Border Guards
Two weeks ago, President Bush, who supports a guest worker program (search) that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States, called the Minutemen "vigilantes.""I am against vigilantes in the United States of America; I am for enforcing law in rational ways," Bush said during a press briefing with Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin.
Doesn't look bogus to me.