If your fighting a World War against Islam fanatics; you just DON’T GO to one of their events. The symbolism of this is downright scumballistic. You send brave men and women who are all volunteers to fight and die and you go sucking up to the very demonic institution that is the root cause of their deaths and maiming? Would Truman have whored himself to be speak at a shinto shrine during the War in the Pacific? Hell FREEKin NO! On the 4th of July to even hear this treachery makes me sick to my stomach!!
A more apt comparison would have been FDR visiting a Japanese Shinto shrine a few days after Pearl Harbor, taking his shoes off, and declaring Japanese as "peaceful". Unthinkable, right? But Bush did the same thing a mere 4 days after 9/11--while the ground still smoldered in New York, he took his shoes off in a flithy mosque and declared "Islam is Peace". He shamed all Americans, and I have viewed him with suspicion from that very day. My wife and I knew that he had taken the wrong path in the then-nascent "war on terror". Bush simply doesn't get it. God help us if the next guy doesn't either.