"The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected."
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"One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.“
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