Giant Bush Interview in Christianity Today

Q:Do you believe there is anything inherently evil in the way some practice Islam that stands in the way of the pursuit of democracy and freedom?

A:I think what we're dealing with are people—extreme, radical people—who've got a deep desire to spread an ideology that is anti-women, anti-free thought, anti- art and science, you know, that couch their language in religious terms. But that doesn't make them religious people. I think they conveniently use religion to kill.

The culture needs to be changed. I call it, so people can understand what I'm talking about, changing the culture from one that says, "If it feels good, do it, and if you've got a problem, blame somebody else," to a culture in which each of us understands we're responsible for the decisions we make in life. I call it the responsibility era. … I said that when I was governor of Texas. As a matter of fact, I've been saying that ever since I got into politics. This is one of the reasons I got into politics in the first place.

I read this a few days ago. Nothing new. If anything, he comes off as smarter, or at least more articulate (meaning they cleaned him up more?), than one would think. But I wish I knew how to read the code words.

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i haev trouble invisioning the eletced leader of any other nation sayign something like that.

cough

'I believe there's a clash of ideologies and I think—I just know—that America must be firm in our resolve and confident in our belief that [ownership by an ever-shrinking clique of people like me and Dick Cheney] is the mightiest gift to everybody in the world and that societies [owned by an ever-shrinking clique of people like me and Dick Cheney] will be peaceful societies.'

Or:

'The long-run solution to terror is [ownership by an ever-shrinking clique of people like me and Dick Cheney]. That's what we believe in America. We believe that everybody yearns to be [owned by an ever-shrinking clique of people like me and Dick Cheney] . We believe everybody can be [owned by an ever-shrinking clique of people like me and Dick Cheney].'