As soon as he called the Satanic political totalitarian death cult a “religion of peace”, that should’ve been the warning bell that this guy was on the wrong side.
That “RoP’ comment didn’t feel right to me, either.
However, in my naiveté on international relations it seemed that #43 wanted to establish another coalition as did #41, and to get said cooperation from that part of the world, a nod to islam seemed to be in order. So I let it pass.
In hindsight, I was wrong, but I’ll bet a large percent of America’s opinion lined up with mine . . . AT THE TIME
“Religion of peace.” That spewed out of Shrub’s mouth in the first couple of days after 9/11. He lost all credibility and the WOT at that moment. He did preside over our losing many, many of our civil rights. I guess in retrospect it was a civil rights war that was beginning. We, the people, lost that one.