President Bush's use of the word Crusade

After September 11, President Bush was talking to reporters about terrorism. He told the country that he would hunt down the terrorists. He would find them and kill them. He said, “This is a new kind of, a new kind of evil and the American people are beginning to understand. This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take awhile." That’s where he went wrong.
A couple of days later this “crusade” that the president talked about was all over the headlines. The Muslims were crying about it. The Christians were crying about it. It seemed like every religion or people’s group was mad because our president used ...