[goldstategop]

President Bush passed up a major opportunity to challenge Muslims to clean up their own house. More's the pity and the one thing Islam did not need is flattering praise of a morality it does not possess. Pat Robertson is right and President Bush should have told those at the mosque its time for Islam to begin its own Reformation and demonstrate to the rest of the world its truly civilized, tolerant, and peaceful.

[xJones]

I can only hope he's trying to kill them with kindness. But right now I'd vote for the straightforward Putin over Bush, if it were possible.

[I'm ALL Right!]

Bleeeechh..pthpthpth!!! I have a terrible taste in my mouth.

[jeremiah]

Let's see, Reagan visits a political school in the USSR, circa 1982. He praises the communist party, for giving focus, and teaching morality to its adherents. Although he acknowledged that a few had taken the totalitarian words in Karls book to the extreme, those followers were in the minority. Saying "Communism is a govt of peace", he called on Americans to refrain from judging the whole of communism, by the actions of Stalin.

If the above were true, would Reagan have been the president he is seen as today? Would we have won the cold war? GW is a spineless NDBF.

[CanisMajor2002]

President Bush passed up a major opportunity to challenge Muslims to clean up their own house. More's the pity and the one thing Islam did not need is flattering praise of a morality it does not possess. Pat Robertson is right and President Bush should have told those at the mosque its time for Islam to begin its own Reformation and demonstrate to the rest of the world its truly civilized, tolerant, and peaceful.

When abortion clinics were being bombed, some people were more than happy to blame the "Far Right" or the Religous Right.

It's quite possible for the sake of argument that most Islamists wouldn't pull a 9/11 in the same way that most Christians wouldn't bomb a clinic. The difference? Pastors from churches all across the country (e.g. Southern Baptists) informed their congregations that this was a Bad Thing.

We're not hearing Moslems correcting their fellow man. Either this terrorism is in their list of valid beliefs, a lot of imams are fearing for their lives, or this correction that they should be offering hasn't been translated into English yet, because the only person I've heard saying Islam is a religion of peace is W.