The Militarisation of the Canada-US Border ?

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/05/16/bush-speech-reax.html

There is no doubt that the US has the Right to put Troops at the Border, but it is truly necessary? Again, that decision is up to their government, but one has to one wonder just how desperate the Bush Administration is now after an astonishingly inept six years in Office.

In watching some CNN last night, I heard again (during the phone-in session with Anderson Cooper and Nancy Grace) some more balderdash about "19 terrorists having come across the Canadian border." Neither Cooper of Grace corrected the caller with the facts.

So there you have it - the myth that Terrorists crossed the Canadian border into the USA continues to fester within the United States. (The only incident I can recall was in 1999, when authorities caught would-be Islamic terrorist Ahmed Ressam entering at Port Angeles with a trunkload of explosives. That is about two years previous to 9/11. Not one Terrorist associated with 9/11 came in from Canada.)

Again, the US Government can do as it wishes on their side of the border. I do not dispute that right one iota. However, it would be nice to see the Bush administration make a decision based on FACTS, rather than on urban myth, or a political calculus - at least once in a while.

Oh, I forgot, this is the SAME government that invaded Iraq with falsified evidence of WMDs.