Magazine Cover Likens Bush to Saddam

RDA… truth hurts doesn’t it? Take off your rose colored glasses, and you might just see what the rest of us see. Then again, maybe not. You Bushies are set in your ways. His own party is distancing themselves from him, but you sheeple still follow blindly.

its about time a magazine stood up to the dictator, who is responsible for the HUNDRED THOUSAND deaths in Irak.

For the american readers , they can take some Comfort that Macleans is certainly strongly left leaning and secondly by knowing that Macleans has long since gone beyond its best before date.
comparing George bush to Saddam Hussein is only a step away from the old cliche of comparing whatever political leader we dont like these days to Hitler.
Macleans clearly has nothing better to do

Bushbaby should feel lucky they did not go with the hitler makeover, which is far more suited to this clown. I just read 3 glaring failures by Gen.Betrayus in Iraq so he and bushbaby should become fast friends. Did Admiral Fallon call Gen.Betrayus a sycophant? What dear republicans would he call your bushbaby moron??????

While I am by nature a little put off by stuff like this I do have to say it got my attention and to be frank I learned soemthing. I sort of turn off anymore when the war comes up. I don’t see where my point of view is really covered and I do see us in this mess forever!
So it did give me a smile and I did get a laugh out of it, so I guess they can say “Mission accomplished” huh?

I really think it is sad to have a so-called ally(when it lines your pockets up north) from our work and do absolutely nothing about it except print a picture of our leader in a pathetic attempt to sway opinion. Now don’t get me wrong, I am NOT a Bush supporter or of the IRAQ war. But when you are dealt with the cards you are given and he isn’t going anywhere. You just have to lay the groundwork for change, positive change. In no way shape or form will this one: change our attitude about the war but resent the Canadians for trying to make us change our opinion. Would you appreciate it if we were standing at the border yelling “Liberate Quebec!” What is your internal business is yours and ours is ours….

Its what the US Press should have done if they had the “guts!!! Good Show Canada at least you still have freedom of the Press!!!!!!

I’m glad to see the press from other countries criticize the American government in this way. The USA government has perpetrated an unforgivable slaughter of the Iraqi population for oil. (Bush didn’t do this on his own) If our government had used the funds spent on this war to finance fuel replacements, we would be less than 5 years from the freedom of the shackles of crude oil

Personally, I see two sides to this.
On one hand, Bush and his party have triggered a war where 3,000 people or more have died thus far, and the fighting will not stop. I don’t think even Hussain killed as much people as have been lost to this useless war.
In contrast, don’t any of you think it’s a bit extreme? Yes, this war is a mistake. Yes, people are dead because of a stubborn president who’s more like a dictator. But it is neither our duty to criticize nor judge, but to bring healing and hope to others. Especially in this time of need for both Americans who have family out there fighting for this country…and the innocent Iraqis who have died by our gunfire. – patronofhealin07

So – I’ll bet the majority of you are moveon supporters, right? Yeah, that’s a bunch of respectable characters. Nonstop character assassinations and slander.
You’re all just po’d that a republican is in office so you make up lies and slander non-stop. I used to be a registered dem – but after seeing the nonstop extreme hatred from the left, never again. IF a liberal becomes president in 08 — just wait for the crap to hit the fan. AND there will be lots of it.

Wow, so we have to go abroad to see the truth of our nation? My, how the might have fallen. If our own media wasn’t such a craven mass of conspirators with the inhumane, fascist doctrines of the Bush administration, I might try to listen to them once in a while.
By the way, I think Maclean’s cover is grossly UNFAIR. Saddam killed 300,000 Iraqis over three decades; the Bush doctrine has produced at least 750,000 dead Iraqis in just four years, with the final tally sadly headed past 1 million. So, no, Bush is not the new Saddam; he’s much WORSE.

This article sounds like the Christocrats are about to take office. Oh; its an election year for the demoCRATS????
Christocrats – Democracts that are for the poor people Haha

All these international “comediennes” are funny until we cut off their foreign aid and commerce.

Fortunately for us Americans, we will not have to wait for an invasion to remove Bush from office! Inauguration Day baby! ROCK THE VOTE!

Well, if the shoe fits he certainly acts like a dictator. What is this deal with Iraq and U.S. about this 30 year oil and dealing in U.S. Dollars??? Is this why US soldiers have been dying???????? The arrogance of power without intelligence or wisdom on how to use it.
When I think of how he could have united this country after 9/11 is truly saddens me.

If you really loved America, you don’t care who is in power as long as they are keeping you safe. You can’t enjoy your “rights” if you are dead.

He was on vacation for a month before 911, did nothing. Did nothing for New Orleans for three days. Invaded a sovereign country killing hundreds of thousands!

First Amendment!!!he seems to me that he is more like that crazy president of Iran instead. The rest of you hide behind religion as an excuses that oh Bush is a Christian so you shouldn’t portray him that way-instead of using or having and common sense. That is like saying Hitler was a Jew but look what he did to them??? Can’t make sense out of a madman.

George W. Bush is an excellent President who is maintaining the election day agenda that we, the AMERICAN VOTERS elected him in HUGE NUMBERS to carry out! Many of those posting here are the same old bitter democrat losers who lose over and over and never learn. Excellent work President Bush, we hope you continue to ignore those who have forgotten 9/11 and the threats we face every day. We are very grateful that your policies have kept our nation safe after repairing the wall between FBI and CIA that clinton and his flunky attorney cemented (due to her moronic leftist misunderstanding of US law). We are also grateful that you have returned dignity and respect to the Whitehouse. We, THE PEOPLE know that poisoned yellow reporting like this piece remains part of the democrat party and their media stooge’s lame attempts to bring down the party of the PEOPLE while trying to generate interest in their hatful little rags. Still, readership continues to tumble and they see their CORPORATE PROFITS dwindle away as we all laugh! USA! USA! USA!

Well well, let’s bail on Iraq and let Al Qaida take over its resources, and Iran too, there will only be a few million casualties and refugees in the ensuing halocaust and imposition of a Talibanesque hardcore regime, then the terrorists can build a couple hundred brick and mortar terror universities. Next we can watch Canada enjoy the aftermath along with the USA, because last I checked, Canadians were a bunch of heathen non-believers fraught with corruptions of western living and were due for a good terror hit themselves according to the jihadists–there’s some really juicy targets in Vancouver and Toronto… Maybe Dudlee Dooright will come to the rescue!!

few people hate clinton. How could you hate Buba? He’s a laughable fool in a dead marriage who rips the presidential seal out of Air Force One and chases chubby girls! LOL We are amused and pity clinton…. We do, however, hate what the fool and his wife did to our country.

Wow! That article is even harder on Bush than I am, and that’s saying a lot as I truly dislike the man, and the harm he has caused.

cheese topping: Amazing how Bush lovers have an entirely different version of history and reality. The election (popular) was rigged and the electoral is unconstitutional and eventually decided by the chief justices not the general election majority.

Great cover, I’ve read 500,000 Iraqi’s dead almost 4,000 Troops Dead. Several thousand more wounded. The Govt. is borrowing from China and other countries to pay for it and we the tax payers are paying it all back for oil, and control of the region.. It costs 3 BILLION A DAY. How much did the Oil companies profit this past year? Those who finance the war make a profit.Defense contractors are literally making HUGE profits. Its the New World Order. They (The Central Banks) want total control of all regions to form a One World Monetary System and Govt.

As we have learned since childhood from our history books, the greedy and tyranical rulers and ruling classes have almost always employed deception and misinformation in order to mask their true reasons for going to war and inflicting the atrocities of war and economic oppression on their own peoples as well as on those who stood in the way of fulfilling whatever was on their agendas. The Bush gang have been a blatent reminder of this timeworn reality. Intelligent people of integrity of all political stripes are capable of seeing through the charade. The Iraqi people suffer needlessly in a destabilized and dangerous environment surrounded by violence, death and sorrow which will require incredilble healing to ever bring about positive change. The American people are being strangled by an economy which is being bled in order to support a a war which is filling the coffers of the extremely wealthy and is making them into the moral pariahs of the planet because of their complicity in supporting such a government. The American military has been sent on a fool’s mission, and the majority of the military personel know this and feel as frustrated and hog-tied as the rest of the world, while the machinery of war and destruction driven by greed and facilitated by the modern day tools of domination, marches on. Misinformation, disinformation, economic stress, the distractions of mass media entertainment and governing structures have coralled us all and have pushed aside or put to sleep all of the many who would oppose the tyrany and the war and those who personify these evils, such as the current American administration. Time to wake up!

His is a war family. He went to prove an elephant and found nothing but an ant. He share the same or similar characteristics of Saddem Hussian. Now when his tenure is close he want to make things look clean in the eyes of global leaders.

I think the picture was taken when he was AWOL from his National Guard unit.

I just wanted to post a comment…he he

Because they know the “actions” you refer to are nothing but a media sham. It’s fine for the little people to run around clucking ‘Bush lied, Bush lied’ like fools but in the real world it’s nonsense. Hillary’s husband called for the liberation of Iraq every year of his silly administration but did not have the ability or fortitude to make it happen. She knew how danger Iraq was, yet she has sold her sole (assuming she ever had one) and is now eating from the left hand of ridiculous web sites

bingo art

Only if we work hard Edward and Chris. I thought 2004 was in the bag, but I still worked harder in any campaign than ever before, but lies are strong, greed is powerful, and hate, when cultivated by professionals can turn even an honest man astray. WORK HARD NOW.

I have to go to Canada now to get a chuckle? Good thing Saddam is dead…can you imagine the humiliation he would suffer if he learned Dubya was compared to him?

Thanks to the courageous magazine for the excellent work.

jeff, americans have a choice to vote people out in the next election canadians don’t…

Paulet: “…To die in the battle field is a soldier’s honor. You left-wing morons are denouncing and condemning our troops!!!” I’m a flight medic in the Air Force; so I guess I only have one question for you Paulet: When do you enlist?

For all Saddam lovers … What do you think the new world order would be like if Saddam had Bush firepower at his command?

I am a former US Marine and a history majore at UNLV. George Bush is not a good president. I am not a democrat in fact I am a Republican. I think this country is wonderful and I believe that George Bush is not to blame for all of the problems but, he is part of it. The real blame should fall on us, the average citizen! We elected a man who is a liar and has led us into a war based on false pretenses. WMD’s OBAMA and withholding health care from first responders at ground zero, withholding video footage that would prove once and for all that a plane indeed struck the pentagon. I can keep going and going but, I figure that is enough to make my point! RON PAUL FOR PRES!! SEMPER FI!!!

Saddam’s government killed hundreds of thousands of its own people. Radical Muslims have killed many thousands more. The U.S. isn’t killing innocent people in Iraq. The people of Iraq are killing themselves (with the help of Iran and Syria).
We liberated millions in Iraq from a dictator. The French, Belgians, Germans, Poles (the entire European Continent, really) owes a debt it can never repay to the U.S., the U.K., and those countries who liberated them.
Get over yourselves. Your hate towards our president is not appealing. Your mothers and fathers would be ashamed of you.

PS – And our gas prices are much higher! And were hundreds of billions in the hole!
But hey there are a lot of new billionaires! Sickening! Had enough? Third Party Now!!!

If the shoes fits…

So as long as a dictator kills only his enemies, but “keeps the peace,” you’re all right with that? I thank God you were not making the decisions when the colonies of the new world fought for freedom against a tyrannical king.

Wow! I didn’t see that one coming, but I must say, I share the same sentiments, but my question is Who then is “DICK” Chaney?
You Go Maclaine! You now have a new subscriber.

I don’t think we should condem a whole country(Canada) based on an article in a magazine. They have as free a press as we do here.They certainly don’t need any “aid” from the US as they seem as well of as we are in USA.They are also as critical of their leaders as we are of ours. But,I think the magazine acted in poor taste.

It’s astounding to read what these liberal freaks are saying. Besides this is the kind of crap I expect from the freaksin the left wing fanatic media.

Food for thought:
In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important — and often more profitable — than to be civil or creative or truly original.’’
— Al Gore
Although you disagree with Bush, is it necessary to demonize?

While its intent may not be lost on those who take a moment to read the article, the bigger question is what is the purpose of the image.
“It’s certainly a provocative cover and it’s meant to draw attention to the story itself,” said Suneel Khanna, Maclean’s magazine’s director of communications.
While the article may inform, it appears to me the image is meant to provoke a reaction. While it is certainly within the law to publish this image, should they? Do we really believe that their intent was only to provoke interest, or is this a manifestation of an underlying political point-of-view? I’m a cynic and doubt that this is merely clever marketing.

As far as the ad goes? I react to it the same way I would if it was the cover of Mad Magazine, I chuckle and go on about my life. The only thing more ridiculous than the picture iself is people making a big deal about it. Freedom of speech right? Or does that only mean something if you approve of the language?

DK makes a good point. We need to change our course, forge a new path. Only Obama offers that at this point, the rest are noise.

It is worse if Bush knows exactly what he is doing – that he willed all of the consequences of his decision. I find that highly unlikely. Given the track record of his administration, episodes of incompetence, insufficient planning, etc. are much more likely explanations. This is my point, that there is plenty to legitimately criticize Bush for, without resorting to comparisons with a dictator who directly willed the death of many of his countrymen. For all of his deficiencies, Bush still is an American, and likely believes in many of the same ideals expressed by you. Here’s a question, if Bush were truly all powerful and able to exactly exert his will, would he want Iraq in its current state, and thousands of US soldiers dead?

Comparing Bush Jr. to Saddam? That’s not fair. Saddam had a brain.

Quote>If the shoe fits…
Oh yes, I forgot again, Bush is the all-powerful, witless, malevolent, no-brain, murderer, bumbler, who controls everything and has implemented his evil master plan to perfection resulting in more power for him and his buddies(approval 30%, rove gone, rumsfeld gone, democrats in congress, and term over in ’08), more oil from Iraq (below pre-war levels), and a platform from which to launch his next war (with ALL of the extra troops we have available now).
The truth is that none of the consequences of the invasion are going according to Bush’s “plan”.
Comparisons like this distract from the real issues we face.

Those comparing the Bush presidency to a dictatorship, or our political system to fascism, are ignoring history and discounting reality. Read. Research. Try to learn what life under a dictator is really like, before making ridiculous comments online.

George W. Bush is an idiot. He should have at least faked some sort of Al Qaeda connection or even made up some WMDs. Its stupid to say that the country is stabalizing when his own researchers are finding the facts to dire to spin. Just walk away now and serve out your term in a better light. Make friends with Iran, show Palestinians that you’re their friend and make America a better place.

Bush fired people that rejected the faulty intelligence data prior to him selling the war to Congress.

Too funny

Maclean’s is irrelevant. Go and find another country to blame for America’s problems. Canada haters. Why do you hate everyone but yourselves so much? Let me guess, you need doctor Phil to explain this one.

Who needs enemies if we have so many Americans hating their hpresident?

If almost 90% of the people disagree with the President and he continues to ignore them, he is a dictator.

Bush certainly has all the right traits to be Saddam. Arrogant, prideful, unwilling to admit mistakes. The one thing he lacks is Saddam’s intelligence.

You Americans,don’t let binladen and his terorists rule this world. Don’t be short-sighted. Don’t be weaklings. The war is really ugly. But good life will never come to you when your America is under the ashes. You are the only nation on earth capable of stopping bin laden and his demonic cohorts from dominating this earth. Make sacrifice now or else we all will perish with you. It’s just too late to realize by then that “survival of the fittest” is still the rule of life. Good bye good life by then!

Finally we see a real enemy coming aboard. Are the rest of you who are enjoying Canadian shtick understand now what is in stake.

Having lived in Canada for a couple of years, I am not surprised by this nor the frequent comments by Canadians on this type of thing. Land of the smug. They like to think everything they do is perfect and they’re more important then they really are. While I loathe all things Bush and hate this war myself? I must view this as though they’re knocking my relative. I can knock him, buy you guys can’t. Not in this public fashion as I think it’s over the top. Sorry. As far as I’m concerned you do nothing to put yourselves out there, and are living like you are because we have done so much for you. Easy to judge when you can’t take any risk yourselves?

Terribly disturbing! Canada should be ashamed of themselves! As the mother of a United States Marine I find this to be quite offensive… Ungrateful Northerners! Before you jump all over this, lets remember, it’s not about being a Bush supporter or basher, he is the Commander in Chief and my sons boss! I hope Canada never needs a helping hand as I’d be the first to cut it off! Shame shame shame!

To the person who said people outside of th US should show respect to Bush because he’s the US president, regardless of how we feel about him: Does that mean you’d respect and honour Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Iran, simply due to his presidential garb? I suspect you don’t, given how his request to lay a wreath at Ground Zero was received
I come from a military family, and feel for the soldiers and their families – o all stripes. But I also feel that Bush and his cadre are dangerous rogues on the world stage. It doesn’t hurt to argue and debate – it hurts far more to blindly defer to a man with that much firepower, be it Bush or those of Saddam’s ilk. Long live debate!

This is dispicable! Bush is an excellent president and stands by his convictions better than the last president we had. He is concerned for America and I, personally, trust him completely!!!

i am going to buy this issue. it is a great job. it tells the truth.

Hypothetically if a cover of say Time or Newsweek Magazine depicted some Canadian leader in a derogatory manner such as this one has of Bush, we Americans would probably being writing here telling the Canadians to just “deal with it.” It falls back to the old adage of, “I disagree entirely with your position, but will defend to the death your right to express it.”
Freedom of the Press works both ways.

Woody, if you studied your history you would know that Canadians both French and English speaking were fighting and dying for two years before we in the U.S. even got into World War II. They flew fighters during the Battle of Britain. They fought and died in North Africa and on D-Day and right up until the war ended. And there were the three years of trench warfare during World War I before we came in to fight. Did the U.S. turn the tide in these wars? Yes, we did. Did we do it or even could have done it alone? No, we didn’t and no we couldn’t. And there are Canadian forces fighting in Afghanistan today.

It is a sad thing to compare President Bush to a mass murderer. I am sorry to see our friends from the north stoop to to this level of hatefulness.
Posted by: RDA | Sep 21, 2007 5:00:09 PM
Really? Last I checked Bush IS a mass murderer.

Everyone seems to have a good opinion and a bad one on this small issue. Of course people want to take pot shots at others because they feel insecure on there point of view they need to defend it. If anything we should take this artical for as it stands and look at it as it is, it’s the only way we will grow as people.
However I would like to point out to “Shawn” on his final comment on internal buissnes, to which I suport but wish to make clear that that there is just a small diference. Any matters in Canada about Quebec are internal because Quebec is in Canada, however Iraq is not in the US there for not an internal matter as the case may be so everyone is practicaly open to opinion on it. As for “liberation” of our wonderful provence and shouting it at the boarder I don’t think would be nessasary. During the clinton administration a small onvoy talked with quebec sepratists about there options, the US state department seems to have it covered.

Lets see… Private Army [check], Civilian deaths [check], Pollution of the land to fit own purposes [check], Weapons of Mass Distruction [nope - Sadam didn't have'em], Brains [nope - Bush doesn't have'em] — no, I can’t say this is a really good match here – interesting though.

The war in Iraq is so very tragic on so many levels. My nephew is on his way back there for a second(and longer) tour next month. My sister told me that he still isn’t over the deaths by an I.E.D of two of his friends with whom he ate breakfast with four hours before they were killed. My nephew called the war in Iraq a “total waste. They[Iraqis] hate us or are scared to have anything to really do with us. You can see it in their eyes except for the little kids.”
His is a voice that Bush will never hear because his “visits” to the troops are photo ops, and every soldier or Marine knows what they are to say even if it is not what they really think or feel. Whereas Bush looks at maps and believes only his own spin, my nephew and so many others there look at real blood and death. You can’t put spin on a flag-draped casket.

Flag draped caskets? that’s funny I don’t remember ever seeing any of those……….

I just feel like people do not understand just how EVIL Saddam was. We are fighting a war – people are going to die. Our soldiers are not slaying innocent civilians.

ellsbells, tell that the the remaining relatives of the 14-year-old Iraqi girl raped, shot and burned by US soldiers….sheesh.

Nobody needs to apologize for your President because he is doing what we, AMERICAN PEOPLE, voted him into office to do. You moveduh org clones (who took your money then helped elected your President) are on the OUTSIDE looking in, smudging up your computers screens with spittle are you frantically type your hatred. The comparison is not ‘unfair’ it’s stupid….and so ridiculous it’s amusing. The democrat reporters who write this nonsense are not even smart enough to be embarrassed, which I guess is how they keep from going back to their jobs at the fast food drive-thru. As an apologist for John Kerry, you must be equally outraged by the fraud surrounding your President’s service to his country as a fighter pilot that Dan Rather is now suing over? …and speaking of frauds, he is just another democrat loser opportunist who had his little party backfire! LOL This election was no different then any other except that cry baby democrats sent lawyers to every close race and filed lawsuits…..and when their little tantrum was thrown out of court, they were exposed for the losers they are. If a lawsuit is filed, the ruling takes place in a court room…yes.. uh, so what has you so confused?

dks0442 …yeah, so when are you going to start???

It’s no wonder our young people are becoming more and more rude and disrespectful to their parents, to the elderly and to people who have been elected into public office. Such disrespect and hatefulness breads more disrespect and hate and the story goes on and on. Good luck America.

this is horrible! there is no reason to do that to some one, whether you like them or not! Bush is our president; we need to show respect.
you know he (Bush) is doing the right thing when everyone hates him.

How long is ABC going to keep the left wing extremist HATE article posted on their main page…….? They’re doing a good job helping the Democratic National Committee .. with this free negative ad campaign donation

BUSH IS A GREAT MAN! DEAL WITH IT, PLUS 2 FOR 2 POOR KERRY! LOL!

Kim – I’m the wife of a US Marine and I think Bush is an utter disgrace and should be impeached. Also, I think Canada is a great nation and we could learn alot from them. Keep your hate to yourself.

I just feel people do not understand just how EVIL Bush is. We are fighting a war – people are going to die.

The fact remains that Bush unleashed a catastropic war that has led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people – way more than Saddam ever killed. And the chaos is Iraq is DIRECTLY his fault since he signed off on Rumsfeld’s completely inadeqaute plan for the occupation. These civilian deaths are on Bush’s head as much as they are on Al Queda in Iraq’s, the Sadr Militias, The Sunni insugents, etc. – since NONE of these organizations would exist without Bush’s bungling.

IF you are the wife of a Marine you should be ashamed of yourself! You should know better than to spew nonsence about our president as YOU HUSBAND’S learned during his Recruit training to keep his mouth shout and carry out the mission! It is not about whether you like Bush or not or whether you support the war or not, HE IS OUR COMMANDER IN CHIEF and to compare him to a murderer is ridiculous! Deranged? Young Grasshopper, that is why you are only the wife of one and not the MOTHER of one! You are an embarrassment to the rest of us that stand firmly behind our Marine’s! P.S. I could care less what you think of Canada!

I love republicans! Vote republican! We are willing to help all the poor misguided home owners when they are in trouble, heck I am thinking about buying me one of those mansions with a cement pond and let all you democrats pay for it. Boy, a Hummer would look nice in my driveway, I’ll be able to afford it considering you will be paying for my mansion. Also, the heck with the kids health care, we need the money for the war for oil, my Hummer would be worthless without a lot of gas. Don’t forget we are the prolife party, so what if a few thousand Americans and a few hundred thousands Iraqies were accidentally killed during our war for oil they were probably worthless democrats anyway. Stem Cell research, forget it, let Michael J Fox shake a little bit, it is good exercise for him. If it weren’t for you democrats screwing up our reform on SS we wouldn’t have to borrow money from China to support this honerable war, we could have just used the money we cheated the old worthless people out of, heck they are about to meet their maker anyway. Vote Republican, remember “We are the prolife party, no cronyism, no nepotism” just good honest government!!

its not because the army is doing service to the commander in chief, that it is a service for humanity or other americans, we HAVEN`T BEEN ATTACKED BY IRAQ ON OUR SOIL

Look at the lot of you, all buzzed up in a mess over a stupid picture of a stupid man. You’re all fightin with each other and such that you aren’t able to unite. So, stop calling it the United States and call it what it is, “The House Divided Upon Itself”.
From the great nation of Texas.

TomBob – they weren’t ordered to do that.

Why compare Bush to Saddam? Why not!

Canada is known as a peace keeping country, granted Prime Minister Harper is a conservative and quite ridiculous.

I can’t believe that there are spineless antiAmerican libs that somehow think that this President is worse or the same as Saddam. Absolutely pathetic. This President hasn’t ordered the slaughtering of liberals here in the USA. Violently and repeatedly raping of the women and slowly killing the husbands and sons.

Remember Alfred E Newman? Striking resemblance here as well – however quite humorous.

Now, der Fuhrer Bush looks like a Christian Soldier.

After getting rid of those dolts Martin and Cretien we had two less reasons to be embarrassed to be Canadian. Now we have Taliban Jack (NDP), the Puffin Party (Liberal) and this cover from the twits at Maclean’s.

c’mon people, it’s freakin canada. a tree felled in canada, it doesn’t make a noise unless the american says it does.

What is sad is not that canadians can see the truth that the kneejerkers here with blinders on refuse to see with respect to Kommisar Bush. He and the people who support him are plain and simple authoritarians (aka fascists).
Given the level of sheer destructiveness for everyone concerned with this war, I think the comparison is valid, with the exception that Bush has killed even more than Saddam and has left Iraq and the USA both in much worse shape. In that way, he is worse than Saddam.
I get sick of all these ‘my president right or wrong’ apologists for what is inexcusable to be just as repugnant as Bush himself. I’m sick of the American blindered authoritarians. They’ve made a huge mess of everything and don’t deserve any attention be paid to their blind allegiance to a wannabe dictator.

If we had kept up in Afganistan, the terrorists would have been wiped out, instead they have used the opportunity to spread everywhere in the middle east, while our troops are thinly spread across Iraq. Even though OBL was behind 911, Bush says that he doesn’t care much either way about getting him. That is so rediculous. Iraqis didn’t cause 911, OBL did with othe terrorists. WE INVADED THE WRONG COUNTRY. And, do you really think Congress would have voted for the war, if the mission was to just liberate the Iraqi people? I don’t think so, not when the real enemy was somewhere else. Bush fired all the people that objected to the WMD intelligence prior to selling it to congress. Just ask Clark or any of the other people Bush tried to sweep under the carpet. THe fact that you support him still is pathetic.

Why can’t you repubs get it in your head that BUSH DROPPED THE BALL IN AFGANISTAN.

I Really don’t think Bush knows how to run a country…hes only there cause his Ol’ Dad was into politics…so hes just the next in line…

Why do some names show up over and over. Cheesetoppings says the same stuff repeatedly, arguing with those who don’t agree with his OPINION. Kim calls names, tells people they are stupid, and asserts we don’t care about American Soldiers if we don’t see things HER way. There are so many more, if you want to push your opinions, either run for office, join the military, or start a Sunday morning talk show. My OPINION is, if you don’t like it, don’t buy the magazine, cancel your subscription, whatever….but, freedom of speech guarantees they are allowed to voice their opinion.

Once a upon a time in a middle eastern country far away an imperialistic, colonialistic, neo con, born again messiah complex white male American President granson of a Nazi thought he could “fix” things. Manufacturing “evidence” appeared to be no problem because he answered to a higher authority. Never accustom to doing his homework, after all he partied through school and had daddy “fix” any and all arising problem, he neglected to read middle eastern history. Listening to swaggering toadies who had never served in the military themselves he became the “War President.” Ta Da! Onward Christian soldiers marching off to war made the blood rush through his veins. But somehow something became amiss. His ungrateful feudal peasents resented their children being slaughterd in his war, he broke his kingdoms budget, and lost the support of his feudal knights.
To make matters worse he now appears as the foe he attacked, and published as such. Woe unto him, a self fulfilling prophecy indeed.

One of Petraeus`s main proofs of the success of Bush`s surge, repeatedly endorsed by the President, is the partnership with the Sunni Tribesmen who had been killing our troops last year. Saddam`s power base were these same tribesmen. Figure it out.

I think the main reason the article compared Bush to Saddam was from the viewpoint of the Iraqis themselves. It was pointed out by an Iraqi that ‘Bush is the new Saddam’. I has nothing to do with MacLean’s being a so-called ‘leftist’ rag; actually in my view, MacLean’s is a bit on the right side. I guess it’s all perspective. And more perspective is better than more right-wing rhetoric.

Macleans Magazine is actually fairly conservative. I’m willing to bet none of you here have read it before. This story and its cover, clearly a surprise to Americans based on the majority of views above, does largely represent what most non-Americans feel about the US actions in Iraq. Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11 and everyone outside of the US knows it. The problem is that most Americans don’t know the truth and are clearly misinformed by the intentional and constant US government and media collusion to keep you thinking that the US attack on Iraq was anything other than what it was. You and I may not live in Iraq, but just think how bad things are there that most Iraqis were actually better off before the US invaded. Now think what you’d think of the US if you were them. Bush >= Saddam

It is sad the fascists have gained so much traction under the bushbaby and their republican sycophants, but when the newsie outlets and networks conduct a thorough vetting of the bushbaby “UNDIES” and test the brown streak thereunto, well then the comedy is delivered with each newsie cycle and the depths are explored daily…

Whats the difference between G.W.Bush and Saddam Hussein?
al-qaeda didn’t want Saddam to be re-elected.

I think the cover photo is actually reflecting the views of the MAJORITY of Iraqi citizens who now think their life was BETTER under a satanic Saddam rather than a bumbling Bush…

one more thing….he was never voted into office …..the american public voted otherwise…the election was stolen….amazing what money can do…..

Here,s to george. he,s got style, taking the U.S. down the drain but with a smile.

George Bush has disgraced the office of president, and inflicted pain, suffering and needless death on hundreds of thousands of innocent people. He intentionally misled our country into an unnecessary war, costing billions of our dollars and the lives of thousands of of honorable soldiers – for nothing. He ignored the economy and global warming, pardoned a convicted perjurer, presided over the politicization of government and justice, ignored the geneva convention and the kyoto agreement, condoned torture, and abuses civil rights as stated in the constitution. He has not treated the office of president with dignity or respect, and as such he deserves no respect. He is a liar, a coward, and incapable of admitting a mistake. He fully deserves to be compared to Saddam, and fully deserves to be brought to justice.

At times I wonder what it would take to have Bush formally removed from office .. War crime charges?
Evidence of the countless covert rendition operations?
Conspiracy charged for stealing the election in the first place?
And yet, all three of the above took place years ago while Bill Clinton was nearly impeached for Lewinsky …
I can understand why Americans are upset regarding the Maclean’s cover, perhaps because it shows Bush to be a lesser evil, being portrayed as Hussein.