Six Days After 9/11: Bush Speaks to Muslim Americans

Less than a week after the attack, the most quoted presidential speech was reassuring the attackers' community, not the families burying their dead.

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Six Days After 9/11: Bush Speaks to Muslim Americans

Less than a week after the attack, the most quoted presidential speech was reassuring the attackers' community, not the families burying their dead.

By Richard Landes Six days after 9/11, with grief and anger running high across the country, President Bush traveled to a mosque in Washington, D.C.