Ah, Armen, I have already capitulated (you obiviously haven't read all the threads on this) I'm a dunce, obviously! It was on NPR, so it's got to be right! Right? Anyone with any sensibility at all knows that NPR is a totally unbiased news source, right?

Words are more damaging than bullets, bombs, and airlines loaded with innocent people right?

I probably won't satisfy you, I know, but let me make my position clear on the subject (I thought I already had).

Over 5,000 people from over 60 countries lost their lives in the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Arguing over a word seems, to me, a pretty trifle thing. So if you, Carol, McGrath, Lonesome E. J., or anyone else who seems so hung up on this word would be happier to have me say that Bush shouldn't have used that word, Okay!

HE FUCKING WELL SHOULDN'T HAVE USED IT! Ok? I have never used such language on the Mudcat, I don't think, but in light of what has happened, the concentration, by so many people on a simple word misused, just boggles my mind.

If all of us were so perfect. What a wonderful world it would be.

DougR

P. S. CarolC.: Please accept this as my reply to your post above. Thanks.