U.S. blasts Canada on terrorism

[CHIMO]

Washington — Islamic terrorist cells continue to operate in Canada, according to a Bush administration report released yesterday that fingers a “liberal” immigration system for allowing terrorists to infiltrate the country.

The harsh assessment of Canada reflects a view widespread on the U.S. political right, but one rarely given official sanction.

Largely prepared before the Conservative government took office in Ottawa, the report, entitled The Country Reports on Terrorism 2005, concludes that political tensions between the Bush administration and the then-Liberal government over Iraq and the Maher Arar affair disrupted vital information-sharing about terrorists.

“The principal threat to the close U.S.-Canadian co-operative relationship remains the fallout from the Arar case that prompted the Canadian government to review and restrict information-sharing arrangements

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060428.wxterror29/BNStory/International/home

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. maybe they got upset when we put their citizen in prison

and beat and tortured him?

[Kagemusha]

2. US ships a Canadian citizen off to be tortured and it's all Canada's fault

That's the gist of this.

[Hand]

15. Good god, THIS is their justification...

“The Arar case underscores a greater concern for the United States: the presence in Canada of numerous suspected terrorists and terrorist supporters,” the report pointedly notes.

Small omission: Arar was

INNOCENT!

although I imagine the reply would be "So what? That just proves our point!" or some similar grotesquely twisted logic. :grr: :banghead:

[HuffleClaw]

20. oh hell, by their definition of 'proof' he's guilty

they've convicted a score of people for 'travelling while being muslim' already, in the US.

[tanyev]

3. Guess we'd better invade and liberate their oil.

:sarcasm:

[skooooo]

4. Blame Canada!!!!

[0007]

5. OMG! junior is off his rocker again, where's Cheney?

The exhaustive report, prepared by the U.S. State Department, makes clear that terrorist units are currently deployed in Canada and the United States, although the wording is cumbersome.

“With the exception of the United States and Canada, there are no known operational cells of Islamic terrorists in the hemisphere,” it says.

Then, in language much tougher than in any previous report — Canada was once lauded as a model partner in the war against terrorism — it says terrorists have exploited the “liberal Canadian immigration and asylum policies to enjoy safe haven, raise funds, arrange logistical support and plan terrorist attacks.”

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. If I were Canada, I'd be getting nervous right about now.

[ninkasi]

7. This is embarrassing

It seems that every day, the Bush administration is scolding, lecturing, or threatening another sovereign nation. We expect everybody to abide by our rules and decisions. Our standing in the world community is already at rock bottom, and now Dubya is already drilling even deeper. The one thing that would help ease the threat of terrorism is diplomacy. If we were using the billions poured into destruction in Iraq in aiding the very real humanitarian crisis, I believe there would be fewer terrorists.

People don't hate us for our freedoms, they hate us for exploiting them. They hate us for dictating to them, and acting superior to them. They hate us because we install fascist regimes which brutalize them. If I were a Canadian, I would be furious, and it wouldn't be because of Americans having more freedoms, either.

[Spazito]

8. Yeah, after all, look at all the 9/11 hijackers that came from Canada!

None, nada, nil. On the other hand, one might want to look at how many of the hijackers were in the US LEGALLY, nah, wouldn't want to do that, eh.

We should damn well restrict information-sharing given the abuse of any info shared by this bush cabal.

[Lisa]

16. yes, they're just pouring through that Ontario-Maine border crossing

If I made up a fake news report on that, I wonder how long it would take * to realize that such a crossing point does not exist (that province and state do not share a border).

[newspeak]

18. well, it looks like it's time to pull out

"Canadian Bacon" and watch:popcorn: You "softy" Canadians, you're thwarting our plans to get the bad guys!!! Hey, so what if we told immigration before 9/11 to give them there Arabs a free pass in to the good ole US of A. It's all your fault for not protecting our borders--not like we protect our borders--why some of that Western coastline in the good ole US of A is undefended because no one wants to put out the funds--and In Dubai We Trust--yeppers that's our motto, our great friend and trusted ally--why we'd trust them with our ports--I mean there was that little incident, the USS Cole, in Dubai, but hey, we're not worrying about that at all. It's you Canadians that aren't pulling your weight in the Great War of Terror, errrr, I mean "Against Terror."

[Spazito]

22. LOL, I bet Homeland Security and the Minutemen would be heading

up there without even looking at a map.

[MrPrax]

9. Of all the gall and nerve...

“The principal threat to the close U.S.-Canadian co-operative relationship remains the fallout from the Arar case that prompted the Canadian government to review and restrict information-sharing arrangements with the United States,” it says.

Canada should get a few nuclear warheads... :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

(just kidding...)

[acmavm]

10. This report was authored by some cluck in the US State Dept? Well,

we've known for quite some time that office was run by liars, (take your pick, they'll all notable liars).

They're still mad about Canado not contributing warm bodies to the 'Coalition of the Willing' and for, as people have pointed out here, the Arar fiasco. And the only government that continually looks BAD is the American government.

[crikkett]

11. the canada that isn't profiling and terrorizing its citizens and visitors

hasn't been attacked yet either.

[kitty1]

12. To Bush; At least we don't provide flying lessons to them first

[ConcernedCanuk]

13. USA's occupation of Iraq opened up a breeding ground for terrorists

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So the USA's "war" on terror didn't reduce terrorism,

it PROLIFERATED it

and some of it got in OUR country?

Thanks alot George

a$$hole

[Oak2004]

14. Next headline is what, US blasts Liechtenstein and the Vatican

for failing to pay tribute to the Great Decider?

[Harper_is_Bush]

17. Canada = "safe haven", Iraq: "not currently a terrorist safe haven"

Crazy.
Check my LTTE on it:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2597743&mesg_id=2597743

"Now is when you should all google the word “doublethink”. "

:)

[HuffleClaw]

19. hmmmmmmm

i wonder what Harper just DIDN'T do for bush? or... this could be their idea of deflecting from the lumber 'deal' fiasco.

[HuffleClaw]

21. “Overall, we are still in the first phase of a potentially long war,"

and there's this of course. 'war' my ass.

[TrogL]

23. So sucking up to Dubya didn't help, did it

A billion dollars down the drain and nothing to show for it but a bad deal.

(hint: softwood lumber)

[CHIMO]

24. Canada's immigration policies criticized in State Department report

Canada's immigration policies criticized in State Department report
Last Updated Mon, 01 May 2006 18:06:42 EDT
CBC News


The Harper government would not comment on the report other than to say it plans to usher in a new era of co-operation with the U.S.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/05/01/usstatedept060501.html