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May 06, 2006

Bush Declares WWIII?

The AFP is reporting that President Bush, in an interview on CNBC, called the war on terror "World War III."

[H]e said he agreed with the description of David Beamer, whose son Todd died in the crash, who in a Wall Street Journal commentary last month called it "our first successful counter-attack in our homeland in this new global war -- World War III".

Bush said: "I believe that. I believe that it was the first counter-attack to World War III."

This is a new tack for the President.

In 2002, then-White House spokesman Ari Fleischer explicitly declined to call the hunt for Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda group and its followers "World War III."

So far, only the foreign press is reporting this story, and even CNBC has no mention of it. All other reporting of the interview focuses on other things the President said. Did any of our readers see the interview? Is this report accurate? And if it is accurate, why isn't it banner headline news?

Posted by Becky at May 6, 2006 10:54 AM

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