REPUBLICANS WOULD NEVER SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT! ... OH, WAIT...

From The New York Times:

The White House has issued detailed guidelines to government officials on how to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, with instructions to honor the memory of those who died on American soil but also to recall that Al Qaeda and other extremist groups have since carried out attacks elsewhere in the world, from Mumbai to Manila....

Copies of the internal documents were provided to The New York Times by officials in several agencies involved in planning the anniversary commemorations. "The important theme is to show the world how much we realize that 9/11 -- the attacks themselves and violent extremism writ large -- is not 'just about us,'" said one official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe internal White House planning....

Typical wingnut blog reaction:

This is why we need to elect Republicans! Republicans would never say anything like this! The previous Republican administration certainly understood that!

Er ... um ...

State Dept. Official Urges Inclusive Tack on 9/11

Published: September 1, 2005

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 -- With the approaching anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Under Secretary of State Karen P. Hughes sent a message on Wednesday to American ambassadors that they should attend interfaith services on that date or make some other gesture noting "that this is not just about us" but about other countries.

"I think it's a very humble way, on the day of our national tragedy, to remember that other people have experienced horrible tragedies," said Ms. Hughes, who started this month as the Bush administration's overseer for "public diplomacy," a job in which she has been charged with repairing the poor image of the United States overseas....

Yeah, yeah, I know -- Bush was being a wimpy girlyman sandal-wearing hippie liberal Democrat when he gave Karen Hughes that job. It's as if the brain of manly Cowboy Codpiece Flightsuit Bush was temporarily taken over by an evil weak appeasement virus. But Bush tortured people, and he never accepted Cheney's resignation, so this doesn't really count, and Obama is still the most evil president of all time.