Yeah, Damnit! I caught that after I hit the post button. NRO always has this oversized letter for their first word which never carries over in a cut and paste format. Oh well...
As far as the Crusades II, I was happy when Bush used the term "Crusade" in his speech to congress. I was disappointed when the Whitehouse downplayed it. Hell yeah, it's a Crusade! At least I hope it will be.
If any of them had a national bird it would be the flea.
They are for the most part a rabble of lying, thieving, shiftless, lazy beggars, living in hovels. They have no schools, no industry, no system of law, no system of finance, no agriculture. They have no culture. They produce no art, no science, and certainly no humanities.
They cannot even self govern, except at the point of a gun. And even the gun and the bullets it fires has to be purchased (or stolen) from the West. As an aside it is amazing that our fourth estate never points out that with their peoples living in abject poverty, there is always money for weapons. Some Islam. Some religion.
They produce only filth, oil and hate. And they do not hate us. Not really. Not at the root. At root they hate themselves. And with cause.
It wasn't in a speech to Congress. It was an "unscripted" remark he made in response to a group of reporters questioning him on a Sunday afternoon (Sept. 16, I believe) after he had disembarked from the helicopter bringing him back to the White House from Camp David.
He has never used the term since. In fact, from everything I am observing, he seems to be moving toward making peace with his own "Inner Jihad."