In a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) at the White House on September 11, 2007, President “Bush seemed triumphal. ‘Of course, al-Qaeda needs new recruits,’ he said, ‘because we’re killin’ ’em.’ He smiled. ‘We’re killin’ ’em all!’ Reid was appalled; Bush, he thought, viewed the war ‘as if it were some kind of sporting event or action movie.’ ”
– Peter Baker, Days of Fire, Page 564