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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (192805)10/16/2001 10:40:46 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
"f all you have is that President Bush used the word crusade I'd say you have not made any sense. The only meaning that can logically be inferred in the Presidents use of the word is "A vigorous concerted movement for a cause or against an abuse."

Crusade....1. any of the military expeditions undertaken by European Christians in the 11th and 12th and 13th centuries to recover the Holy Land from the Moslems. 2. Any holy war undertaken with papal sanction. 3. Any vigorous concerted concerted movement for a cause or against an abuse...

Please note the preferred 1st and 2nd definitions and try and understand which definition a Moslem country might accept.....