"death and violence" quote

[Jonathan Lighter]

There is a possible flaw in the above. Though I checked _Bush at War_ in
both GB abd Amazon previews, it is conceivable that an attribution to Bush
appears on some unacknowledged, undisplayable page.

If so, I apologize for my clumsiness.

"Bush's" remark already appears as the number-two quotation in the
ultra-quickie _Quotable War or Peace_, ed. by Geoff Savage (Toronto: Sound
and Vision, 2003).

Garson?

JL

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      "death and violence" quote
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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.=94
> 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
>
> --=20
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>



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

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org