Here it is again - Powell used the word Crusade in his testimony

[donsu]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0323-07.htm

Powell Slips, 'Crusade' Re-Enters US Lexicon on War

Two-and-a- half years after assuaging Muslim anger over US President George W. Bush's use of the word "crusade" to describe anti-terror efforts, Secretary of State Colin Powell slipped and allowed the term to re-enter the lexicon.

Powell repeated the word as he described US efforts to bring Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on board to topple Afghanistan's Taliban militia and dismantle Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

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Asked about Powell's repetition of the word on Tuesday, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher moved to head off any suggestion that the secretary had used the term intentionally or in reference to Islam.

"It doesn't always have its historical meaning attached to it," he told reporters. "It's a word that's in general use in English.
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sure it is


and the other day on CNN I heard a suit repeatedly say we were in a religious war.

[DrWeird]

1. I've got a painting of Colin Powell.

I can't wait to hang it.

[rudeboy666]

2. let's don't jump the gun

The word 'crusade' DOES have a common usage in English.

[Desperadoe]

3. You're right

It means a "religous war".

[TahitiNut]

5. The word itself has the same root as "cross" (as in Christianity).

cru·sade n.

1. often Crusade Any of the military expeditions undertaken by European Christians in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims.
2. A holy war undertaken with papal sanction.
3. A vigorous concerted movement for a cause or against an abuse.

crusade

\Cru*sade"\ (kr?-s?d"), n. <F. croisade, fr. Pr. crozada, or Sp cruzada, or It. crociata, from a verb signifying to take the cross, mark one's self with a cross, fr. L. crux cross; or possibly taken into English directly fr. Pr. Cf. Croisade, Crosado, and see Cross.>

1. Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Mohammedans.
2. Any enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm; as, a crusade against intemperance.
3. A Portuguese coin. See Crusado.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=crusade

[Bridget Burke]

6. Yes, but it also has a very specific meaning....

Especially to Muslims. Powell is supposed to be one of the "smart" ones.

[Demonaut]

4. Onward Christian Soldiers Marching as to War

with the cross of Jesus going on before.....British school morning assembly hymn

[donsu]

7. also an american Methodist hymn

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