elprincipe said:
That's the best you've got, that he said the word "crusade"? Cry me a river. In the U.S. at least, "crusade," regardless of its origins, is not seen as an "anti-Islamic" word at all. Crusade does not refer to anything anti-Muslim. Sure, it was a poor choice of words, but "anti-Islamic propaganda"? Please, spare me. You're going to have to do better, or someone else will have to do better. You can't, because what was claimed is entirely untrue, however much you may dislike/disagree with Bush.
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What Bush essentially did was take advantage of the already pre-existing Islamic-phobia Christians had since the creation and spread of Islam. Instead of using the Crusades as evidence (seeing that it was outdated and non-effective), just take the 1980's as evidence.
Iran holding the US troops as hostages, placing Saddam Hussein as the leader of Iraq and letting him fight Iran for the 8 year war, the Gulf War, the 1993 bombing...add in all of that and Bush just had to say "We are going to get ya" and there ya go!







