They Like The Dark Ones

by digby

If you’re a racist, vote Republican:

In the transcript, translated from Spanish by The Washington Post, Bush said that Europeans were insensitive to “the suffering that Saddam Hussein has inflicted on the Iraqis” and added: “Maybe it’s because he’s dark-skinned, far away and Muslim– a lot of Europeans think he’s okay.”

Right. The Europeans are insensitive to the suffering of Iraqis because they’re “dark-skinned Muslim” lovers.( Of course that makes no sense because the suffering Iraqis are “dark-skinned Muslims” themselves but this is Junior we’re talking about,after all.)

It revealing that he characterizes Saddam as “dark-skinned” at all and further that he thinks the Europeans thought he was “okay” because of the fact. Apparently, he

Everyone says that Bush isn’t a racist. Whatever. But he has a little habit of letting his little white worldview slip every once in a while. My personal favorite is this one:

There’s a lot of people in the world who don’t believe that people whose skin color may not be the same as ours can be free and self-govern. I reject that. I reject that strongly. I believe that people who practice the Muslim faith can self-govern. I believe that people whose skins aren’t necessarily — are a different color than white can self-govern.

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