# Did "W" use the crusades word.

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**Created:** [August 24, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-w-use-the-crusades-word/667019 "2013-08-24T02:02:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![georgewk10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@georgewk10](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/georgewk10)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-w-use-the-crusades-word/667019/1 "2013-08-24T02:02:34Z")

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“They” may hate us because of freedoms. or…  
And of late , losing freedom of privacy is not gaining us any new friends.  
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.” - Voltaire

found on;

> **[Common Dreams](https://www.commondreams.org/)**
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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-w-use-the-crusades-word/667019/2 "2013-08-24T02:11:12Z")

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Not sure what was that, but if that was a question, Bush did mention it after the 911 attack.

> **[Europe cringes at Bush 'crusade' against terrorists](https://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0919/p12s2-woeu.html)**
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> As Europeans wait to see how the United States is planning to retaliate for last week's attacks on Washington and New York, there is growing anxiet

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> On Sunday, Bush warned Americans that “this crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take awhile.” He and other US officials have said that renegade Islamic fundamentalist Osama bin Laden is the most likely suspect in the attacks.
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> His use of the word “crusade,” said Soheib Bensheikh, Grand Mufti of the mosque in Marseille, France, “was most unfortunate”, “It recalled the barbarous and unjust military operations against the Muslim world,” by Christian knights, who launched repeated attempts to capture Jerusalem over the course of several hundred years.
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> Bush sought to calm American Muslims’ fears of a backlash against them on Monday by appearing at an Islamic center in Washington. There he assured Americans that “the face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That’s not what Islam is all about.”

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-w-use-the-crusades-word/667019/3 "2013-08-24T03:03:39Z")

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Not sure what this was, **georgewk10** , but it was not a debate.

If you would like to discuss a topic, using a thread title that actually bears some relationship to the Original Post can be a good start.]

Beyond that, posting odd text and then linking to a site is a poor way to do it.

You are free to start a new thread that actually addresses the issue you would like to discuss or debate, but only if you put a bit more effort into posting a coherent topic.  
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