Seems the "War on Terror" label wasn't working anymore, so the Bush Administration has changed its name:

President Bush in recent days has recast the global war on terror into a "war against Islamic fascism." Fascism, in fact, seems to be the new buzz word for Republicans in an election season dominated by an unpopular war in Iraq.

Fascism is one of those words that left-wingers used to throw around to describe conservatives like, well, Bush. So I'm sure there are pleny of people on the left who find this extremely ironic.

And they have some valid reasons to think so. Other than the religion that they follow, there are many similarities between the religious conservatives like Bush and those endorsing radical Islam. If you were to run down a list of issues from homosexuality to prayer in schools to evolution and science, you would find them almost in lockstep, at least in principle.

And this could also signal another attempt to widen the conflict started by 9/11 to encompass Iran, and maybe even Venezuela. We'll have to wait and see.