Damn, that Times editorial is so poorly written it must've been penned by Ryan "I Hope My Dad Dies Before 2011" Blethen.

Tim Russert is coming to speak at my place of employment next week.

What question should I ask him?

Haditha massacre happened in 2005, not 2003. Also, does that mean you agree with the allegations you link to, suggesting that we never would have had a massacre at Haditha if the US had deployed 400,000 troops in 2003? I find that unlikely.

re: 06-06-06... why didn't the world end on June 6, 6 A.D. or June 6, 1006?

Is ECB trying to tell us that the take-down of an al Qaeda cell in Toronto didn't happen? Or that it doesn't matter? Or that domestic spying by Canadians is less worthy of comment than extraterritorial "domestic" "spying" by our NSA?

Remember, Canada has arrested, and read the rights of said individuals. They will try them in a jury trial, a civilian court, find them guilty (presumably), sentence them, and send them to jail.

Bush has only managed that with one person so far. All the rest are most likely illegal in some way shape or form, and the vast majority were let go with no formal charges, even if held for years and totally innocent.

The Iraqis with American bullets in their brainpans are no less dead than the Iraqis found in the mass grave. It seems that the only difference is that Hussein at least respected them enough to bury their bodies. Americans just leave the bodies on the street, hoping to bury the evidence of their crimes with red tape.

An accurate body count of Iraqis who died in the US invasion/occupation will never be known, as the US military threatened to kill or killed the doctors or human rights workers who tried to record the Iraqis who died. As bad as Hussein was, he was certainly the lesser of two evils.