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Originally Posted by tompe
I thought it was: "this crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take awhile." Giving the wrong quote seems to me to be a very serious twisting of the facts.
This sounds exactly like equating Islam of Muslims with terrorism.
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My mistake. I was trying to point out that he was using crusade in reference to terrorism while some of the other comments tend to equate terrorism and Islam which is not what was said and is clearly not the position of the U.S.
I guess this just points out how volatile and open for misunderstanding and misinterpretation this whole area of conversation is. I probably should have stayed away from entering into this debate.
I do think this country has hurt it's international standing with some of our actions, but I also think that there is a lot that is not known about what drove some of the decisions. To think the basis of decisions was entirely on what is know in the public forum is probably not wise. Only history will be able to truly judge the performance of our past president.