World War III, no IV, no III

On CNBC, Bush has claimed that actions of the passengers on UA 93 "was the first counter-attack to World War III."

World War III ... didn't he get the memo from Podhoretz. World War III is so 1980's.

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That may be yet another Bushism, I think. I think what Mr. Bush meant to say was that it "was the first horsey of the apocalypse."