I've always been both disappointed and slightly amused by the media uproar about George W. Bush's infamous "you're either with us or against us" speech from 2001, which has for years now been roundly criticized and lampooned as representing a dangerously simple-minded, arrogant, or even downright evil world view.

The criticism is more than a little bit ironic, considering the original source of the phrase.

Bush wasn't quoting Dirty Harry. He was quoting Jesus Christ in the Gospel of Matthew: "He who is not with me is against me" (Matthew 12:30)