I’ve not run across it on any of the pages I visit, but it’s only a matter of time. And I did have someone e-mail it to me, so I might as well comment:<\/p>\n
George W. Bush did not <\/i>say:<\/p>\n
We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation.<\/p>\n
The quote is from Bob Woodward’s Bush at War<\/i>, and sometimes this is mentioned (Woodward’s name giving it a certain cachet). <\/p>\n
But Woodward never attributes this quote to Bush. Instead, he records it as being said by an unindentified CIA or Special Forces trooper at a 9\/11 memorial they’ve built in the Afghan mountains during the first mission into Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
Call it a pre-emptive <\/i>correction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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