"death and violence" quote

[Jonathan Lighter]

Hundreds of websites quote Pres. G. W. Bush in the days after
Nine-Eleven, some approvingly, many in outrage:
"We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in
defense of this great nation.”
The only source offered is Carl Woodward's _Bush at War_ (N.Y.: Simon &
Schuster, 2002).

The catch, of course, is that Woodward attributes the words instead to an
unnamed American among a group of Special Forces officers and CIA
operatives (all "more hungry for action than is generally known") as they
symbolically buried a piece of debris from the World Trade Center near
Gardez, Afghanistan, in 2002.

The book ends on that Pattonesque note (p. 352).

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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