You had to reach back one year and four months in Sun Media to find an article that would suitably make your point? Why not just pick any Margolis column? Margolis is a syndicated columnist who is not an employee of sun media and who appears in many papers, many of them in the US. Sun Media prides itself on being unlike the Toronto Star or the CanWest papers and for respecting alternative viewpoints. Margolis's columns are printed for balance. To hold up Margolis as representative of Sun Media's viewpoints require you not only to reach back over a year, but also to ignore the majority of Sun Media's colunmists, including, inter alia, Peter Worthington, Licia Corbella and Paul Jackson. Let us agree that our former prime minister 'ti Jean was a jackass of the first water and that when he took a position contrary to that of the US on the Iraq job, (as any soverein nation is entitled to to) he and his ministers and sherpas did not have to indulge in gratuitous insults, especially in ad hominum attacks on the President of the United States. Let us also recognize that many Canadians such as myself vigourously opposed his geopolitcal stance and especially his insulting manner. But in the last general election, the Conservatives gained significant number of seats, including seats in Ontario and the Liberals lost a significant number of seats and are now a minority government. This for a party that has only been merged from disparate elements for half a year and with a leader who had held his leadership only two months when the writ was dropped. Remember also that while 'ti Jean was saying, in effect, "no, no, we wont go" our troops continued to be deployed to Afghanistan in support of the war on terror and Canadian frigates continued to join as part of the escort screens for US CVNs and continued to mount interdiction patrols the Gulf, and our exchange officers continued to be attached to US units, including AWACS over Iraq and ground units inside Iraq. And use of the term "pathetic surrender monkeys" is not only an ad-hominum attack on all Canadians but also denigrates those soldiers and seamen who are doing their job professionally and well and denigrates the more than 100 soldiers who have lost their lives with, damned little recognition, on "peace keeping" operations. I have serious reservations about 'ti Jean's replacement Paul Martin, but when he visited the White House shortly after becoming Prime Minister, he began to speak in more positive terms about Bush's stated casus belli
I should go have a cup of tea and let my temper cool before writing any more replies.