[SunStar]

Yawn...

[Cyber Liberty]

Geesh. Idiot can't tell the difference between Orwell fiction and real airplanes crashing into real buildings.

[Publius6961]

The Toronto Star?
What is with these Canucks, anyway?
Don't they have any domestic weirdness that they can deal with?

[Pay now bill Clinton]

bump

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Couldn't keep the facts straight, eh?

[clintonh8r]

Gimme a Molson, eh, hoser?

[Samwise]

THE WAR against terrorism is a brilliant construct. It may not have been started by George W. Bush, but it certainly works to his advantage.

I couldn't read beyond this line. Dubya would do anything to change the events of 9/11. Clinton is the one wishing it had happened on his watch. Dubya wishes it had never happened at all--as do all decent human beings.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Canada - the retarded giant sleeping on our doorstep.

[Shermy]

"In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the enemy of the state is personified in Emmanuel Goldstein. Goldstein is the Osama bin Laden figure of the novel, an elusive figure who is never seen, never captured but believed by all patriotic citizens of Oceania (Orwell's fictitious state, an amalgamation of North America and Europe) to be an evil genius bent on their destruction."

The lefty mind at work. Osama and his operatives, and his organizational members pledge to destroy the West, especially America. What's so secret about that? It's not, but lefties can't look. Gotta maintain that multicultural sensitivity.

[Mr. Thorne]

Well, then, he's made a safe bet. The natural state of Man is War. Peace is an ideal inferred from the periodic breaks we have had between our wars.

[OldFriend]

DNC talking points reaching all the way to Canada!

[jpl]

No mention of an oil pipeline conspiracy? How does this guy expect to graduate to the Village Voice or Newsweek?

[spodefly]

A friend of mine lives about 12 blocks from where the WTC was ... she heard the 2nd plane roar over her apartment before it hit ... she was telling me about the day, and broke down ... she could barely talk about the dust and the smells and that giant gaping hole in the sky-line ... NO Orwellian metaphor posited by a leftist weenie can possibly conjure up the horrors that are real and tangible.

[Congressman Billybob]

The premise of this article is the usual bullsh*t of the lamestream media. Facts do not get in the way of what the "reporter" wants to write.

The reporter is apparently too bone lazy to do homework sufficient to find out that the US has fought one war that was very similar to this one. In January, 1806, the US declared war on the Barbary pirates, but not on any of the various nations in which the pirates were operating.

Assorted land and sea operations in a number of locations then followed until the second and final peace treaty was signed in 1816. That war ended when the threat ended. The same will be true today.

Because of Bush's comment in his State of the Union Address that "this war may not end on my watch" I feel reasonably confident that Dr. Rice briefed him on the Barbary Pirates War before he gave his speech, and that he was warning us in a non-specific way that this war may last more than eight years. (Presidents often think of their time in office as two terms, eight years, unless events inervene.)

Congressman Billybob

[dpwiener]

Look what happened to his father. George Bush Sr. was an immensely popular president when he was waging war against Iraq. But as soon as the fighting stopped, his ratings tumbled.

George Bush Sr.'s popularity tumbled because (1) he didn't bring the Gulf War to a satisfactory conclusion, instead leaving Saddam in power to constitute a continuing danger; and (2) we all "read his lips" and learned that he was just another lying opportunistic politician.

George W. Bush appears to have learned from his father's mistakes (which is not to say that he won't make new ones). He seems determined not to be satisfied with half-measures in the war on terrorism. The country (and world) has learned that he doesn't bluster or bluff, but instead does what he says he's going to. From tax cuts to Kyoto to missile defense, he has carried out his promises regardless of what the media or other nations or the Democrats prefer.

If Bush Sr. had not committed those two mistakes he would probably have won re-election. George W. does not need to keep the war on terrorism going in order to be re-elected, he just needs to avoid committing blunders of a similar magnitude.

[AshleyMontagu]

When Mad Maddie Albright and Bill Clinton were trying to convince everyone of the hideousness of the Evil One during the Monica mess, I and most others around here agreed with this article's premise 100 percent. As described by the Clinton administration this Bin Laden fella sounded like a fictional cartoon character. Wag the dog. Ironic, ain't it?

[Johnny Shear]

Canada...

America Jr. with HORRIBLE food.

[denydenydeny]

This is Michael Rivero writing this, isn't it?

[Demidog]

This is exactly why we'll never "catch" bin Laden. He has to remain at large for a VERY long time.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

And this from Canada, just another failed experiment in Socialism!