For anyone that doubts that the Bush administration considers the war on terrorism a holy war, there's a candid new interview with Richard Perle, a "truly dangerous man" according to Google, with 4,150 hits.Stephens: There’s a story told about Bush’s visit to the World Trade Center, right after the attack.
He was chatting with some hard hats, and he looked at this one guy and said, "What can I do for you?"
And the man said, "Help the widows and orphans."
And Bush said, "No, what can I do for you?"
And the man said, "You go find whichever m--f-- did this and you kill him and his wife and his mother and his children and his dog and everyone who so much as served him a cup of coffee."
And Bush said, "You won’t be disappointed."
Perle: That story sounds right to me. You know, a lot of our guys in Iraq carry around pieces of the World Trade Center. The chattering classes are talking about the relationship between Saddam Hussein and 9/11. These guys are under no illusions. It’s all part of the same war.
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