AFTER THE ATTACKS IN PARIS, A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CALLING
ON PRESIDENT OBAMA AND ALL THE DEMOCRATS TO CALL THIS TERRORISM
WHAT IT IS, ISLAMIC TERRORISM.
THESE ARE ISLAMIC RADICALS.
NOW,
I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH SAYING THAT.
AS A LOT OF YOU KNOW, I
DON'T THINK YOU SHOULD THEN BLAME ALL MUSLIMS, AND A LOT OF
PEOPLE WILL SAY, NOBODY IS DOING THAT.
SOME PEOPLE ARE DOING
THAT.
BUT THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT CAMP THAT IS NOT BLAMING ALL
MUSLIMS, BUT THEY ARE JUST SAYING HEY, CALL IT WHAT IT IS.
IF YOU SAY MUSLIM RADICALS INSTEAD OF JUST RADICALS OR
TERRORISTS, I DON'T KNOW, DOES THAT MAGICALLY FIX IT?
I DON'T
KNOW, BUT THEY ARE MUSLIM RADICALS.
DID PRESIDENT OBAMA GO
IN THAT DIRECTION?
WELL, NO.
IF ANYTHING, HE WENT IN THE
OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
I HAVE TO CALL IT LIKE IT IS, SO I WILL
GIVE YOU SOME QUOTES FROM THE PRESIDENT AND YOU WILL GET A
SENSE OF IT.
HE SAID --
WOW, OKAY.
HE SAID ñ
HE WENT FURTHER.
HE SAID --
MAYBE THIS IS THE POINT WHERE YOU PAUSE AND YOU SAY IT IS
SOUNDING LIKE HE IS TRYING TO APOLOGIZE FOR ISLAM AND WHAT A
GREAT, PEACEFUL RELIGION IT IS AFTER WE JUST GOT HIT BY MUSLIM
RADICALS.
DON'T BE A MUSLIM APOLOGIST AT A MOMENT LIKE THIS,
RIGHT?
HE TAKES IT FURTHER --
MORE COMPLIMENTS TOWARD ISLAM.
WOW.
IF YOU WERE WORRIED THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA IS BEING A
LITTLE BIT OF AN APOLOGIST FOR ISLAM, I CAN SEE THAT THOSE
QUOTES ARE DAMAGING.
AND THIS JUST IN, WE JUST DISCOVERED
THIS, IT TURNS OUT NOT AFTER THESE ATTACKS, BUT JUST SIX DAYS
AFTER THE 9/11 TERRORIST ATTACKS, OBAMA WENT TO THE
ISLAMIC CENTER IN WASHINGTON, DC, AND GAVE A SPEECH CAUTIONING
AGAINST BIGOTRY AND RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MUSLIMS.
AFTER 9/11, IT IS NOT TIME TO WORRY ABOUT MUSLIMS, IT IS TIME
TO WORRY ABOUT ATTACKING THEM.
RIGHT?
HE WENT TO AN ISLAMIC
CENTER SIX DAYS AFTER 9/11.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE?
WHY ARE YOU
GOING TO AN ISLAMIC CENTER?
YOU SHOULD BE GOING TO OUR CENTER,
RIGHT?
OH, I'M SORRY.
NONE OF THIS WAS PRESIDENT OBAMA.
IT WAS
ALL PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH.
EVERY ONE OF THOSE QUOTES.
THE
FACE OF TERROR IS NOT THE TRUE FAITH OF ISLAM, GEORGE W. BUSH.
OUR FIGHT IS NOT AGAINST THE MUSLIM FAITH, GEORGE W.
BUSH.
OUR WAR IS NOT AGAINST ISLAM, OR FAITH PRACTICED BY
MUSLIM PEOPLE, GEORGE W. BUSH.
WE RESPECT THE FAITH, WE HONOR
ITS TRADITIONS, OUR ENEMY DOES NOT.
THEY HAVE HIJACKED THE
GREAT TRADITIONS OF ISLAM, GEORGE W. BUSH.
THE PERSON WHO
WENT TO THE ISLAMIC CENTER IN WASHINGTON, DC SIX DAYS AFTER
9/11 WAS NOT BARACK OBAMA, IT WAS GEORGE W. BUSH.
ALL OF THE
REPUBLICANS OUT THERE TELLING US, BUSH WAS RIGHT AND HE HAD
THIS FIGURED OUT, REPUBLICANS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN RIGHT, THESE
ARE MUSLIM RADICALS, MUSLIM TERRORISTS, MUSLIM RADICALS --
WHY WON'T OBAMA SAY IT?
HOW ABOUT
BUSH?
I DIDN'T HEAR YOU COMPLAINING BACK THEN.
BUSH WAS
STRONG AND TOUGH AND KNEW WHO THE REAL FIGHT WAS AGAINST,
RIGHT?
INTERESTING DOUBLE STANDARD.
MAYBE WE ARE PLAYING
WITH THE QUOTES.
LISTEN TO THE MAN HIMSELF.
THE FACE OF TERROR IS NOT THE TRUE FAITH OF ISLAM.
THAT'S NOT
WHAT ISLAM IS ALL ABOUT.
ISLAM IS PEACE.
THESE TERRORISTS DON'T
REPRESENT PEACE, THEY REPRESENT EVIL AND WAR.
ISLAM IS PEACE.
I'M NOT BLAMING GEORGE BUSH FOR THOSE
QUOTES.
ELLIOTT ABRAMS, ONE OF THE TOP NEOCONS IN HIS
ADMINISTRATION, SAID WE WERE ABOUT TO GO TO WAR IN TWO MUSLIM
COUNTRIES AND WE NEED ALLIES IN THOSE COUNTRIES, IT WAS NOT TIME
TO BASICALLY SPIT IN THEIR EYE, TO PARAPHRASE.
NOT A DIRECT
QUOTE, BUT HE SAID WE NEED THOSE MUSLIM ALLIES TO FIGHT WITH US,
WE DIDN'T WANT TO INSULT THEM, WHICH MAKES A LOT OF SENSE.
AND
A COUNTERTERRORISM ADVISOR ALSO HAD SAID --
YOU KNOW WHY?
BECAUSE THAT WOULD GET A LOT OF OUR TROOPS
KILLED.
IT WILL MAKE PEOPLE WANT TO FIGHT WITH US EVEN IF THEY
WEREN'T AGAINST US IN THE FIRST PLACE.
THEY MIGHT SAY IF YOU ARE
FIGHTING ISIS, GREAT.
I AM FIGHTING ISIS.
YOU ARE FIGHTING
AL QAEDA, IRAN WAS FIGHTING AGAINST AL QAEDA.
LOTS OF PEOPLE
IN AFGHANISTAN WERE FIGHTING AGAINST AL QAEDA, GREAT, I WANT
TO FIGHT AGAINST AL QAEDA WITH YOU.
IF YOU ARE FIGHTING AGAINST
ISLAM, I WILL JOIN THEIR SIDE.
THAT IS A TERRIBLE IDEA, THAT IS
WHY BUSH DID NOT SAY IT WAS ALL MUSLIMS.
AND IT WASN'T TRUE, IT
WASN'T ALL MUSLIMS.
A LOT OF MUSLIMS FIGHT WITH US.
IF YOU
ATTACK MUSLIMS TODAY, WHERE WOULD YOU GO?
LET'S GO BOMB THE
MUSLIMS.
NOT MUSLIMS IN GENERAL, IT IS THE IDEOLOGY OF ISLAM THAT
HAS LED TO THIS.
LET'S GO BOMB MUSLIMS.
OKAY, YOU WOULD HAVE
HIT THE KURDS, WHO ARE FIGHTING AGAINST ISIS.
SOME OF THE
ANTI-ASSAD AND ANTI-ISIS FORCES IN SYRIA.
WOULD YOU HIT TURKEY?
A TOP NATO ALLY?
THEY ARE MUSLIM.
IT IS THE IDEOLOGY OF
ISLAM, WE HAVE TO CALL IT WHAT IT IS AND DECLARE WAR ON IT.
WE
COULD GO FIGHT THE IDEOLOGY OF ISLAM IN INDONESIA.
WHAT ARE YOU
DOING OVER THERE?
THAT IS WHY BUSH KNEW IT WAS A BAD IDEA,
OBAMA KNEW IT IS A BAD IDEA, BECAUSE AS PRESIDENT YOU HAVE TO
MAKE SURE WE HAVE A LOT OF ALLIES, THAT OUR TROOPS DON'T
GET UNNECESSARILY KILLED BY ANTAGONIZING MORE PEOPLE, AND
THAT WE HAD THE RIGHT TARGETS.
EVEN BUSH, WHO COULD NOT HIT THE
RIGHT TARGET IF HIS LIFE DEPENDED ON IT, SAID WAIT, THIS
IS A MONUMENTALLY BAD IDEA TO TRY TO FIGHT A WAR AGAINST THE
WHOLE IDEOLOGY OF ISLAM.
I'M NOT SAYING BUSH WAS WRONG IN THOSE
CLIPS.
WHAT I'M SAYING IS, DON'T BE A HYPOCRITE.
BE CONSISTENT.
IF YOU DIDN'T LIKE WHAT BUSH SAID, HE WAS WAY MORE OF AN
APOLOGIST, AS PEOPLE WOULD SAY, THEN OBAMA HAS EVER BEEN.
HE DID
NOT GO TO AN ISLAMIC CENTER AFTER 9/11, AND HE DID NOT SAY
OVER AND OVER, ISLAM IS PEACE.
THAT WAS YOUR BOY, GEORGE W.
BUSH.