Re: If you go through life looking to be offended, ...
The point is...Bush made one unjudicious choice of phrase. Despite dozens and dozens of calrifications afterwards where "crusade" was not used and great pains were taken to support friendly Islamics, this author and others hang on one mis-speak.
Meanwhile there is unrelenting jihad rhetoric.
Believe it or not, I do support NOT deliberatly offending Muslim countries. They cannot expect every single statement from us to be perfect. Judge us by 90% not 1% of what we say. Similarly, we must judge those harshly who repeatedly call for our destruction.
-philw