The So-Called War on Terror

The American Thinker and
American Future both ponder why people use the prefix "so-called" before the term "War on Terror".

I started thinking about this after noticing that Peter Mansbridge said "so-called War on Terror" in his report last night. As far back as I can remember, the CBC has always referred to Bush's war in this way. The "War on Terror" has never been accepted as a given in Canada. It has always been "so-called", or the "US's War on Terror", or some variation. It has nothing to do with the CBC trying to undermine the "war", it's that the majority of Canadians simply don't buy into it, and the CBC knows that.



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