Its "War on Terror" Stupid!

The president clarifies a phrase what's been watered down recently by members of his own cabinet. The words "War on Terror" was called the more politically correct "global struggle against violent extremism" by Secretary Rumsfeld among others, as the NYT states:

President Bush publicly overruled some of his top advisers Wednesday in a debate about what to call the conflict with Islamic extremists, saying, "Make no mistake about it, we are at war."
In a speech here, Bush used the phrase "war on terror" no less than five times.
Not once did he refer to the "global struggle against violent extremism," the wording consciously adopted by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other officials in recent weeks after internal deliberations about how best to communicate how the United States views the challenge it is facing.

Sometimes we all need a kick in the pants, and George Bush is just the man to do it.