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previous issue December 6 |

NIEs: Waste of Time?
by Cindy SheehanOn August 6th, 2001, exactly 36 days before 9-11, George was handed an NIE that was actually titled: "Bin Laden determined to strike in the US."
Let Us Kill All the Teddy Bears
by Mark MorfordI think of how many senators and Bible-thumpers and Bush-bashed Americans who are seeing stories like this and snorting, "See? Murderous Muslim fanatics raging in the streets! This is why Christianity is so much better. This is why we should bomb the Middle East to rubble. Bush is right!" And they raise their flags and cock their Bibles and pat themselves on their arrogant backs, conveniently forgetting that the only real difference between radical Islam and Christianity's own bloody, murderous past is, well, a bit of time, with a splash of geography. |

