And it is indeed World War III, as more and more people are beginning to notice. I believe it was Winston Churchill who dubbed World War I and World War II the “second and third wars of Spanish succession,” and his point is well taken. This Third World War in which we are now engaged is in fact just a Resumption of the Wars of Jihad Conquest which jihad warriors waged for centuries, beginning in the seventh.
“Bush calls terror fight WWIII,” from Agence France-Presse, with thanks to JE:
US President George W. Bush has said the September 11 revolt of passengers against their hijackers on board Flight 93 had struck the first blow of “World War III”.
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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”.
Mr Bush said: “I believe that. I believe that it was the first counter-attack to World War III.”
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In 2002, then-White House spokesman Ari Fleischer explicitly declined to call the hunt for Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda group and its followers “World War III”.