I know that at the beginning of Gulf War II, military editions of books were handed to soldiers and some contained Henry V or portions of it. Do you know if this passage was part of the military editions?
Somehow I don't think Rumsfeld will want to assign this "edition" of Shakespeare:
"Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out, May waste the memory of former days.
2 Henry IV, IV, v.