Bush The Jihadist

Yes, it's The Daily Mail. But this is over the top, even for them:

But I have long thought that Bin Laden was also motivated by a specific strategic purpose in launching 9/11 - a wish to trap the United States into an ideological struggle with the Islamic world. He certainly succeeded in this - but only because Bush and his neo-con cronies have been all too willing to accept the challenge.

Why? Because just as much as Bin Laden and his fellow jihadists, they, too, see world affairs in simple terms of ideological conviction.

Remember, Bush and his vicepresident Dick Cheney are fundamentalist Christians, while Bush's own political base lies in his fellow fundamentalists of the American 'Bible belt'. And tragically for Britain, Tony Blair passionately shared Bush's belief that world policy must be inspired by religious faith.

The grim truth is that when George W. Bush declared "a global war on terror", he was really announcing a jihad of his own - a struggle to convert the whole world to American-style capitalist democracy.

Comments

[templar knight]

Wait a minute, here. In one sentence The Daily Mail claims that Bush and Cheney are fundamentalist Christians, which they aren't, and in the next one the Mail claims that the struggle is to convert the whole world to American-style capitalist democracy.

Not convert them to Christians, mind you, but to consumers of something besides rocket-propelled grenades. How silly and how utterly stupid the Left is. Where in the wide world do these people get these outlandish ideas. I'm sure they just make shit up as they go.

[Terry Gain]

Sure explains why Bush engaged in Muslim outreach immediately after 9/11; why he refers to Islam as the religion of peace and why he removed a secualr dictator who persecuted Shia Muslims. Typical leftists. Beyond reason and hope.

[Lokki]

Well, was Churchill a Jihadist then? The BBC never prints my comments when I mention Churchill. I can't decide if it's because he was a God, of because the BBC hates him and everything he stood for.

[Tedders]

BBC hates themselves, a bunch of self mutilating pansies.

[Fred Beloit]

Churchill, that fundamentalist Anglican. He started a world war in an effort to make the entire world smoke cigars.

[Dusty]

Looks like the radical pinkos at the Daily Mail are running up their agitprop flag.

[Mike]

Thanks for flagging this up. I've posted on the piece, and the author, at

http://monkeytenniscentre.blogspot.com/2007/09/bush-bashing-for-beginners.html