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In fine ranting form today, I also wrote a letter to the Globe.
It went something like this:

President Bush is "a wartime leader on a par with Winston Churchill"?
Are you sure that headline wasn't supposed to be Your Morning Smile?

The story was frontpage with the tagline at the top:
Bush team puts faith in 9/11

Which also reminds me of my earlier ranting about "9/11" and how somehow this date has become unanchored in time, somehow now September 11th is in the perpetual present.

Plus which, ok 3000 people died in 2001 due to a terrorist attack on the US.

Let's look at the terrible death toll from terrorism in the US in the past ten years (please correct me if I am wrong):
1994: 0
1995: 168 (Oklahoma City bombing)
1996: 0
1997: 0
1998: 0
1999: 0
2000: 0
2001: 3000 (approx)
2002: 0
2003: 0
2004: 0 (so far)

Meanwhile, 2000 teenagers (ages 13-19) in the US die every year by committing suicide, including 1000 who exercise their constitutional right to bear arms... and deliberately shoot themselves.

There are lots of sources for leading sources of death in the US, I used WISQARS Leading Causes of Death Reports from the US Government CDC.
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