BartSimpson BartSimpson:
I should add that if Canada goes off on the ill-advised idea of letting the USA foot the bill for her protection while Canada dismantles her military you will one day wake up to find the Stars & Stripes flying in your neighborhood.
You're sitting on trillions of dollars of oil and if you won't protect it then we'll steal it before anyone else does.
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Isn't that what the lieberals in Canada say we'll do?
Sometimes the liberal Canadians really amaze me.
I hear all of this raging anti-US rhetoric yet the actions they take are not consistent with their words.
If the USA was all as bad as the lieberals say we are then shouldn't Canada look more like an armed camp?
Why would fools disarm themselves only to be forced to trust the very people they say they trust the least?
Sorry, but the liberals just come off as retarded here.
OK Bart. Time to dispell all your misinformation.
First off.
Libs and the military. Lets examine the Paul Martin 2003 Libs OK.
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The Canadian ruling class, for its part, is determined not to be left out or behind in this great game. Over the past decade, and particularly since 2001, the right-wing and big business have been mounting an ever-more shrill campaign to promote the need to retool and reinvigorate the CAF and for Canada to play a more significant role in upholding international order. The following demand from the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, the country’s most powerful business lobby group, is typical: “Canada must build on its proud tradition of peacekeeping by rebuilding a credible capacity to contribute to global security. This should include an ability to respond meaningfully and rapidly to crises anywhere in the world.”
The Liberal government of Paul Martin has responded to these calls. During last year’s election campaign, Martin pledged to increase Canada’s troop strength by 5,000. The February 2005 budget included a $12.8 billion plan to expand and strengthen the Canadian Armed Forces—the largest cash injection into Canada’s military in a generation. Among the plan’s key provision is the development of a rapid deployment force for use in international crises.
The budget announcement, it should be noted, was carefully coordinated with the Martin government’s decision that Canada will not formally participate in the Bush administration’s Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) program. The juxtaposition of the two announcements exemplifies the quandary faced by the minority Liberal government.
While Martin and his Liberals are eager to fulfill the ruling-class demand for a revitalized armed forces and a greater Canadian role on the world stage, they fear the political consequences of an explicit repudiation of the Canadian nationalist myth that Canada and its military have played a unique and honorable role in world affairs, shunning war in favor of peacekeeping.
This is a criticism from socialist. Hey, if increased military spending by the Libs is pissing off the socialists then you gotta think we are doing something right.
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I hear all of this raging anti-US rhetoric yet the actions they take are not consistent with their words.
No you don't. All you hear is bitching, the same bitching we hear from you guys when you notice us.
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I should add that if Canada goes off on the ill-advised idea of letting the USA foot the bill for her protection while Canada dismantles her military you will one day wake up to find the Stars & Stripes flying in your neighborhood.
If you are saying that your country and its people are so untrustworthy and underhanded that they would simply walk in and take us over because we have taken a more peaceful route in world politics then either you think less of your own citizenry or we have erroneously assumed we are friends.
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Why would fools disarm themselves only to be forced to trust the very people they say they trust the least?
We don't trust you the least. In fact if we polled all of Canada I would bet my ferrets that you are the country whos citizens we trust the most, and by a wide margin. The reason you hear such loud criticism (that would get other countries nuked) is
entirely because we do trust you and that you aren't going to bomb us because we diagree with your stance on "X".
You hold your tougue at work yet when you get home among family you feel comfortable to vent.
Does any of this seem reasonable?
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Sorry, but the liberals just come off as retarded here.
Us and virtually the entire world think the same about bush and co. He blew every ounce of sympathy and good will to avenge his daddies honour (and thats all it was) and went into Iraq. There is no greater safety in the US, in fact its far worse because you have no choice but to suspect even us and our open borders. Iraq ......... well, another time.
Just because our fathers are arguing about leaves in the backyard doesn't mean we still can't be friends. Right?
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