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Gingrich and Bolton and .. Fox News' Double Standard On Demanding Officials Decry "Islamic Extremism"
Research January 21, 2015 4:01 PM EST ››› OLIVIA MARSHALL & CHANCE SEALES .. bits ..

Ernst Did Not Use Any Variation Of "Islam" To Describe Terrorism In SOTU Response. Ernst delivered the official GOP response to Obama's State of the Union address and did not use any variation of the word "Islam" to describe terrorism and violent extremism. Much like Obama, she denounced "terrorism" and the "forces of violence and oppression." [National Journal, 1/20/15]

Bloomberg View: Obama Administration's Omission Of "Radical Islam" Follows Bush Lead. Bloomberg View columnist Eli Lake noted that comments like those made by Obama and Ernst conform with "a longstanding U.S. policy, not only for Obama but also his predecessor, George W. Bush." Lake explained that Obama administration didn't use "radical Islam" to describe the ideology of the terrorists who attacked the office of the satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo because the United States' war against terror "requires at least the tacit support of many radical Muslims":

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There is a reason for this: The long war against radical Islamic terrorists requires at least the tacit support of many radical Muslims.

It sounds strange. But as Emile Nakhleh, who was one of the CIA's top experts on political Islam between 1993 and 2006, told me, there was a recognition following the 9/11 attacks inside the Bush administration that many supporters of the Wahhabi strain of Islam favored by al-Qaeda and its allies were not plotting attacks on the West. In some cases, such as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the purveyors of Wahhabism were longstanding American allies. "There was the two-ton elephant in the room, and that is Saudi Arabia," Nakhleh said.

So Bush for the most part opted instead to talk about the enemy as "evildoers" or "extremists," even though on some occasions he went off message. It's why Bush's second secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, condemned as "offensive" the Danish cartoons of Mohammed in 2006 after they sparked riots across the Muslim world. [Bloomberg View, 1/19/15]
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http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/01/21/fox-news-double-standard-on-demanding-officials/202223

Bolton and Gingrich both milked cheers from a 'soak the bs' in crowd by misrepresenting history .. gee .. Clinton and Obama are weak in
describing extremist terrorism .. neither mentioned it was just as GW Bush did .. shrug .. just cheap disingenuous framing toward 2016 ..

Also Bolton repeats the whopper that Obama has jeopardized United States security by cutting the number of ships in the navy (maybe Gingrich did, too, i wandered
before he stopped) and by so doing (which he hasn't) jeopardizing the security of the United States .. the crowd lapped it up .. one small detail .. it isn't true ..

CNN fact check

The facts:

First, Romney said the Navy was at its lowest level in terms of number of ships since 1916. The fact is, he is not that
far off, but any assessment of the Navy's size -- relative to its number of ships -- needs to be taken in context.

What Romney didn't mention is that in 2007 under President George W. Bush, the Navy's
ship tally hit a low not seen since the 19th century, according to U.S. Navy statistics.

Generally, between 2003 and 2011, the number of ships has fluctuated between a high of
297 and a low of 278. And under President Barack Obama, the number of ships has risen slightly.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/08/politics/fact-check-romney-navy/

PolitiFact

The U.S. military is at risk of losing its "military superiority" because "our Navy is
smaller than it's been since 1917. Our Air Force is smaller and older than any time since 1947."

— Mitt Romney on Monday, January 16th, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.



http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/jan/18/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-says-us-navy-smallest-1917-air-force-s/

FactCheck

Romney All Wet on Ships
Posted on October 26, 2012
http://www.factcheck.org/2012/10/romney-all-wet-on-ships/

Guess it follows that Bolton and all else who said it during the Iowa 'feelgood' talkfest, and all in the future as for sure more will, need
a toweling, too .. who cares that much of most of what Gingrich and Bolton said was patently political spin .. fact or not? .. who cares.

See also:

Republicans doing a great job of cleaning up their history, as they always do, the subject of this part
is .. George w. Bush .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=110746157
.. and the 'now' reply .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=110746761