When is the American revolution like the Iraqi civil war? When our president says it is.

On the 4th of July President George Bush addressed the 167th Airlift Wing of the Air National Guard in an aircraft hangar in Martinsburg, West Virginia. He said, "Our first Independence Day celebration took place in the midst of a war -- a bloody and difficult struggle that would not end for six more years before America finally secured her freedom."

He pointed out that our current war on terror has been going on for six years, if you count it from the American invasion of Afghanistan.

Actually, the comparison would be more apt if, when the French landed on this shore to win our Revolutionary War, we had responded by killing them with improvised explosive devices.