Comments on Bush and History

In celebration of the first President's birthday:

As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

--- George Washington, (signed by John Adams in 1796) Treaty of Tripoli, Article 11, 1797

In the Revolutionary War, weren't we losing before we were winning?

Um, the problem with this analogy is that we're the British, and the American colonials are the Iraqis. The colonials were the ones using guerilla tactics and fighting to drive out the most powerful military empire the world had ever seen.

And people say that 9/11 killed irony.

What are Musselmen?

The guy on the right looks like he's about to crap his pants.

Musselmen refers to Muslim. In this instance, it was in regards to the Barbary Pirates.