Powell slips, ‘crusade’ re-enters US lexicon on war

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Two-and-a- half years after assuaging Muslim anger over US President George W. Bush (news - web sites)’s use of the word “crusade” to describe anti-terror efforts, Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) slipped and allowed the term to re-enter the lexicon…

“We gave them 24, 48 hours to consider it and then I called President Musharraf and said: ‘We need your answer now. We need you as part of this campaign, this crusade’,” Powell recalled in testimony before a commission investigating the attacks…{{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1520&e=3&u=/afp/us_attacks_powell/ MORE}}

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