As noted here earlier, the newspaper Asharq Alawsat reported that the U.S. Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference Rashad Hussain said he was working to erase “hostile feelings caused by the administration of former President George W. Bush.”

A representative of the State Department has since provided THE WEEKLY STANDARD with a transcript and audio showing that Asharq Alawsat misrepresented statements made by Hussain. He was, in fact, charitable to the former president and didn’t say Bush “caused” “hostile feelings” in the Middle East. Here’s what Hussain actually said: 

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