What The???

      As if we needed further proof that John Ashcroft is a village idiot of monstrous-- and dangerous-- proportions, we have his assertion that the U.S. acted appropriately in deporting Maher Arar to Syria instead of Canada. In the immortal words of Wallace Shawn in The Princess Bride, "Inconceivable!"

      Does anyone else cath a whiff of a threat (another in a long line of American threats issued toward Canada in the past few years) in Easter's account of the meeting? Hmmmm.....