Submitted by Frank van Deventer(United States), Aug 20, 2004 at 17:33
You ask that Bush "surround himself with a group of distinguished anti-Islamist Muslims, foreign and domestic alike" as though there were such a group out there speakling their minds and waiting to be summoned. Instead, if there are such distinguished folk, they are strangely silent.
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