[gcruse]

- President Bush regrets using the word "crusade,"
with all its historical connotations of religious war,
to describe his campaign against terrorists, his spokesman said Tuesday.

More malaprops.  Where is Peggy Noonan?

[Mr. Bird]

From Webster's, definition #3:

A vigorous concerted movement for a cause or against an abuse. See Synonyms at campaign

Stop apologizing.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Let's see. GWB is leader of the free world, leading the USA through a time of unprecedented peril, that will be (hopefully) written about in the history books centuries from now (if there are still people around to write those books and to read them). And he just happened to utter the word crusade? Right. Just like he just happened to think of the old west posters that said "Wanted Dead or Alive". And just like George Bush Sr. could never pronounce the word "Saddam" correctly and just like Winston Churchill could never quite get the pronunciation of "Nazi" correct. So Ari Fleisher comes out and says, "hah, hah. So sorry. Didn't really mean it". I think GWB chose his words pretty carefully and meant what he said.