"Not a metaphor"

More on Bush's continued break with reality:

"Just this morning he (Bush) criticized a Kerry advisor for comparing it to the war on poverty, saying "the war on terror is not a metaphor"."

Ummm....if it is not a metaphor, who and/or where is this "terror" that we're at war with? I mean, I understand that the idea of a "war on terror" is that we're not fighting one particular person, place or thing, but Bush seems to think something else entirely!