Bush's Crusades

Terrorist flew planes in to the World Trade Center, The Pentagon, and a field in PA. Each tower was hit by one plane and within two hours were reduced to a pile of rubble. The pentagon was hit by one plane and due to its design it did was able to withstand the blow and suffered minimal damage compared to the world trade. The plane that crashed into the field in PA. crashed because of a group of passengers tried to over throw the hijackers and the hijackers had no chance but to crash the plane.
Bush’s use of the word crusade towards this war was a huge mistake because the crusades were a series of holy wars between Christians/Catholics and Muslims. When he said crusade he struck fears of another religious war instead of a war on terrorism. Many also thought the war would attack more than those responsible for 9/11.
It was a bad idea to compare this current war to the Crusades because the Crusades were a series of holy wars. This war that we are fighting in the Middle East is a war on terrorism and not religion.
The group of people fighting in the Crusades were the Christians/Catholics and the Muslims.