I see real desperation here. Consider this story:

[roguevalley]

Bush, Under Fire, Reaches Out to Muslims

By Adam Entous

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) invited Muslim leaders to the White House for a Ramadan-season dinner on Tuesday, acknowledging the United States has an image problem but stopping short of directly criticizing a Pentagon (news - web sites) official who said Muslims do not worship "a real God."

Bravo for this:

Some Muslim leaders said they had turned down the White House invitation in protest. CAIR, America's largest Islamic civil liberties organization, said it was never invited to the dinner, which it called "window dressing." It said the groups would hold a protest dinner across the street.

SNIP!

Before opening the White House for an Iftar dinner honoring Ramadan, Bush said remarks by Army Lt. Gen. William Boykin, the deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence and war-fighting support, did not "reflect my point of view or the view of this administration."

(But he won't fire him, so they do.)

However, the president did not comment directly on Boykin's statements, deferring to the Defense Department's inspector general, whose office is investigating his speeches at churches and prayer breakfasts.

EDITED BY ADMIN: COPYRIGHT


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1896&ncid=1896&e=9&u=/nm/20031028/us_nm/bush_muslims_dc_1

[Karenina]

1. Say WHAT???

'POSTPONE?' :wtf: Please fill me in on that one.

[EdGy]

2. "We welcome Muslims in our country"

think about that statement.

What is Bush saying?

That "our" country does not include Muslims.

We -- by which he clearly means Christian whites

welcome -- as if it is up to "us" to say who is and is not welcome in their own country; it also treats Muslim Americans as if they are merely guests of the "real" Americans...

Muslims -- I guess Georgie is not aware of the fact that the "we" includes millions of Muslim Americans..

in our country Again, who is the us in "our"?

This is a most revealing comment.

George does not see Muslims as "real" Americans. He's being generous by accepting them, as if it is up to him to say who is and is not American.

This is the kind of racism that passes for "tolerance" in the GOP...

[Wednesdays]

3. Oh, knock it off with the PC...

sarcasm=off

[gratuitous]

4. The Muslims can't make it for dinner? How about lunch?

I swear to whatever God suits you the reader -- can this corrupt administration be any more inept? If we had a functional Fourth Estate, George W. Bush would be flayed alive on the Capitol Mall in prime time.