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"The Decider" Strikes Even More Fear In My Heart Than Before

Law is a discipline of words, so while smart lawyers may disagree quite antagonistically about what words mean, or whether they have been appropriately used, few would question the precept that word choices can be critically important, whether in a statute, a contract, a witness statement, or even within a conversation. So today, when I read about Bush asserting that we are in "World War III" I really started to worry about his plans for Iran:

In an interview with the financial news network CNBC, Bush said he had yet to see the recently released film of the uprising, a dramatic portrayal of events on the United Airlines plane before it crashed in a Pennsylvania field.

But he said he agreed with the description of David Beamer, whose son Todd died in the crash, who in a Wall Street Journal commentary last month called it "our first successful counter-attack in our homeland in this new global war -- World War III".

Bush said: "I believe that. I believe that it was the first counter-attack to World War III.

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