Republican Representative John Cooksey of Louisiana reportedly told a radio network in his home state that: "If I see someone come in that's got a diaper on his head and a fan belt wrapped around the diaper on his head, that guy needs to be pulled over."
A Cooksey spokesman later told the Washington Post that his boss' larger point - that such airline passengers should be questioned - was valid, saying "Obviously suspicious people should be checked out."
Bush, who has blamed the attacks on Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, has repeatedly and carefully urged tolerance of all US citizens, amid a surge of violence against people perceived by their aggressors as being Muslim or from southwest Asia.
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maybe it is already too late to change peoples perceptions.
