The passenger list on the plane was a bit of a surprise to me, as well. While the majority were Iranians, the number of Canadians was surprisingly high. Regardless of the destination, that was an awful lot of Canadians to find together in one place. Most of the cities in Canada don't have that many Canadians in one place. Furthermore, this is hockey season.

It just sounds suspicious.

When the US shot down an Iranian passenger jetliner by accident, Bush didn't even apologize...and nothing happened. When the Iranians shoot down a passenger jetliner by accident, their own citizens riot. When you add that to the quote in FD's signature, it just gets more ironic. The US has the greatest ideals of any country in the world. We occasionally even manage to live up to them. Mostly, we fall short and hope the rest of the world will be as forgetful of that fact as we are.

I'd say that's my biggest disappointment in this country: We have the ideals, we just disregard them whenever they are somewhat inconvenient. I realize you can't always live by those ideals, but I sure wish we'd try.