Look Into A Word example essay topic

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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 this word. Bush was quick to apologize for using this word. "I think to the degree that that word has any connotations that would upset any of our partners or anybody else in the world, the president would regret if anything like that was conveyed", said Fleischer, a white house spokesperson.

"But the purpose of his conveying it is in the traditional English sense of the word. It's a broad cause". The administration in now way wanted to imply that they condone what happened a thousand years ago. The president wants no relation between the crusades of Europe a thousand years ago and what is going on now.

I will admit that, considering the parties involved, Bush should have thought through what he said before he said it. But, you know, nobody's perfect. (You can really see he isn't perfect by this mess he is getting into now.) Anyway, I can't see why people have to get so upset over a word that he used. Do people really think that the president wants to kill all the Muslims in the name of God? Give me a break. People need to stop crying over the little things.

We need to look into what is really meant and stop dissecting every word that he says. Does it matter if we say the right word? In this case, it did. Bush used the wrong word. I knew what he meant. I think most everybody knew what he meant.

I believe that people sometimes look into a word too much. They look into this word so much that they look past what is really meant by the speaker.