I'd be willing to offer free suitcase packing for the separatists.
CXT . Please don’t distort my words or paraphrase them in a manner that changes their meaning. Lets live the spin doctoring to our governments
1. I have not taken the moral high groundOk, the Canuks were there AS PART OF SMALL UN PEACEKEEPING FORCE.
Don't make it sound like you guys took independent action.
You didn't.
Nor did you as a nation decide to "do the right thing" and act independently.
You didn't--if you had, you would have the moral high ground to lecture the rest of the world.
2. I am not lecturing the rest of the world
3. You claimed Canada did nothing, you were wrong.
4. Yes we did not take independent action,we worked with in the system and international law we went in with a UN Mandate.
5. When it became obvious that the mission would fail we went back to the Security Council and asked for more troops and for a change in directive as it was a non firing mission. We received no help from the Security Council.
The whole point of raising the Rwanda issue was to point out that the USA did not back Canada when we asked for help.
See my point to Bill, I’m lazy the point of the list was to point out your nation has a habit of invading other nations. Gun barrel commerce if you will.Nice list--so your NOW wanting to go the whole "prior bad acts" route??
Cool--before I run my own list of the various sins, crimes, mistakes, and grevious errors committed BY PRETTY MUCH EVERY NATION IN THE WORLD.
I suggest we stick to the thread instead of hijacking the post and solving the wrongs of the world.Nor is there even the attempt to list OTHERS that have behaved in a like manner (care to discuss the plight of the Metis sometime-or perhaps the various seperatist movements
The rest of the world is not schiting on Canada for not going to the war with the US, the rest of the world hasn’t slapped a trade war on us. America has.Telling, in that you single out the USA---see, its not the ACTS that bother you (otherwise you would be hammering everyone)
I think aid given freely is a great gift. I think we all should help the less fortunate. With no strings attached. I’m surprised you would degrade the efforts of other peoples to help their fellow man. For the last time the purpose of the post is not to insult anyone. Read my post over again. It may be this arrogant we are the best and you guys all ****** attitude that loses America international support.All "also rans" want to talk about "percentage of GNP"
What you really mean by that is-
"We don't give nearly the amount you do--BUT we need something to make us feel better and insult you about"
Notice that you couldn't even give us our propers even here?
Many Yanks like to think they single handedly won the war. I guess those hundreds of thousands of other folks in uniform who died to defeat Hitler were a figment of my imagination. Do you not think your claim might be a little insulting to nations who also suffered heavy losses and were in the war for six years? Do you think the French and British whose children were being killed did any of that lifting?And your right in WW2 etc you were "with us" but "with us" and whom does the real "heavy lifting" are two very different things.
My little country had over a million people in uniform, that’s ten percent of the population. Kind of comparable to the USA having 35 million soldiers today. I lost family in the liberation of Holland, I’ve visited the Canadian gravesites all over Europe, I lived there for a few years. Don’t tell me you did all the heavy lifting. It’s an insult to every soldier who served, and every family that sacrificed. No doubt America’s late entry into the war shortened it, her sacrifice is appreciated by all nations, but don’t schit on the memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. I personally think Hiltlers Russian blunder was the turning point and not the efforts of any one army.
Funny I thought that was a NATO force, I didn’t realize that it was an independent American effort with the rest of NATO tagging along. But the point that you had the majority of military forces and weaponry is true. Without it Many more people would have been killed.And without us--no-one would have stopped the genocide in Kosavo and Bosina.
You didn't act until WE DID.
You seem to constantly insult non US military forces, cast them as insignificant weak, not carrying the weight. So if they are so useless, why do you want them at your side when you go to war?
If our military is crap why are you punishing us via trade for not sending it to Iraq? And once again, How can you expect us to back you when you didn’t back us? Can we get around to dealing with the thread or are we going to continually be side tracked on other issues?
On the world wars, I disagree, but that your nation made a major contributuion to victory there is no doubt. Thank God you where in their dying with the rest of us.Ugly truth--without us both World Wars and Korea would have been major losses for the world.
Korea….the police action…yeah it was a war, and like most of them it was America and a few small forces from other nations.
You miss the point, the point is why are Americans the prominent target in this type of terrorist attack. Why do other people want to kill your citizens?Sloppy thinking dude--"Canadian embassis are not being blown up all over the world... why are Americas?"
1. What is a Nanny state?No real military spending allowed to develop your "nanny state" and let us protect and the rest of the world.
2. Who do we need protection from? Only country ever to invade us was America. Are you guys thinking of visiting? As an ex military. I’d like to see us with more capabilities in this area, but we still manage to assist the UN in peacekeeping and we have sufficient forces to deal with national emergencies and insurrection. That meets our needs we don’t practice gun barrel commerce, so we have no need of large invasion forces. But nothing wrong with war to drive an economy, good way to end a drepression I hear.
Because we don’t spend billions and billions on military spending we are able to offer universal health care to our people. We would rather spend our tax dollars looking after the health of our people.
You appear to put great value on independent action, of coming up with the idea of going to war and then invading.
Most countries don’t see this as a reason to celebrate. To commite a hostile act to attack is not a good thing in the eyes of the world. The US shuns the UN, and the US also shuns the WTO. Eleven times the WTO has ruled that US tariffs on Canadian lumber are illegal. But America seems to say the hell with the world and everyone else these days. Why is that?
We have different values it would seem.
I recall mentioning something about a bandaid at the beginning of the thread somewhere.... 
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