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Bush has no clue!	excon	09/30/05
Hello experts: Here’s a good example of why we are in deep, deep doo doo in Iraq. The president's confidante, Karen Hughes, has been on a "listening tour" of the Middle East. After meeting with Sheikh Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University, the academic center of Sunni Islam, she said it was a "wonderful meeting," because the two of them were able to talk "about the common language of the heart." Hearing Hughes talk about Sheikh Tantawi, you could almost forget what he said in 2002, as translated from a report by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), when he called on Palestinian Muslims to "intensify the martyrdom operations against the Zionist enemy" — men, women and children — and described the barbarous slaughter as "the highest form of Jihad operations" and "a legitimate act according to (Islamic) law." Maybe that's the "spirit of love" Hughes was gushing about. Then there was what Sheikh Tantawi said in 2003, also reported by MEMRI, when he called for jihad against U.S. forces in Iraq. "Jihad is an obligation for every Muslim when Muslim countries are subject to aggression," he explained. "The gates of Jihad are open until the Day of Judgment, and he who denies this is an infidel or one who abandons his religion." Amazingly, even after everything we've been through, Bush, Hughes, and her advisors are still unaware of who is a terrorist and who is not. excon
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Itsdb		09/30/05
Well ex, I think Karen Hughes was playing the part of a diplomat, which is exactly what people have screaming the Bush administration should have been doing for years. So now that he is trying to improve diplomatic relations he has no clue? Would people make up their mind...including Sheikh Tantawi? Again and again and again it just goes to show Bush is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. It would be helpful - and fair - to read Hughes' remarks in context. Steve

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