Back to "War"

Just days after getting ripped for his administrations apparent shift in terminology from "war on terror" to "global struggle against violent extremism" President Bush reversed course in a speech to the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative group of state legislators, in Texas.

Bush used the word "war" 13 times in a speech primarily about domestic issues:

''Make no mistake about it, this is a war against people who profess an ideology, and they use terror as a means to achieve their objectives,'' he said.

''We're at war with an enemy that attacked us on September the 11th, 2001 ... We're at war against an enemy that, since that day, has continued to kill.''