Andrew Cochran at the Counterterrorism Blog notes that while in Bush’s 2007 State of the Union address he referred to “Sunni extremists,” “the Islamist radical movement,” and “Shia extremists,” and in his 2006 address spoke about “radical Islam,” in his 2008 State of the Union speech he never used the words “Islam,” “Islamic,” or even “Islamist.”
That suggests that his words from his 2006 speech can now be applied to their speaker: “By allowing radical Islam to work its will — by leaving an assaulted world to fend for itself — we would signal to all that we no longer believe in our own ideals, or even in our own courage.”