Fact-checking a Bush speech

[ArrMatey]

Can anyone give me a secondary source? These days, I find it hard to swallow anything the net media puts out, but this… I really wonder.

Did Bush indeed refer to the current conflicts in the middle east as the beginning of World War 3?

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19043507-38198,00.html

[Ravenman]

It seems so. http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/05/bush_and_world.html

It appears to have been a statement made on a CNBC cable news network interview.

[madmonk28]

Yes he did. From the Washington Post.

Kudlow asked Bush to comment on the new movie, “United 93,” about the September 11 uprising on a United Airlines plane before it crashed in a Pennsylvania field.

Bush said he hadn’t seen the movie, but said he agreed with the description of David Beamer , whose son Todd died in the crash, and who recently called the uprising the “first successful counterattack in our homeland in this new global war–World War III.”

Said Bush: “I believe that. I believe that. I believe that it was the first counter-attack to World War III.”

This was not the first time Bush has described the war on terror as World War III. As I wrote in my June 29 column , he publicly endorsed Osama bin Laden’s assertion that “This Third World War is raging” in Iraq.