[streetrepair]

"Are you really as simple-minded as you appear?"

If simple-minded means deconstructing a writer's article to effectively dismantle his arguments, one by one, then yes, I'm simple-minded.

FWIW, my responses were generated for the writer, not toward Canadians in general.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

"It's particularly troubling because there are thousands of deserving refugee claimants, many of them black and brown and poor, who are desperate to enter Canada and who face torture and execution in their homelands."

Outright lie. "Homelands" refers, in part, to the United States, based on what is all said in the article. Blacks here in America face TORTURE under the U.S. gov't?

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Your reading comprehension needs some upgrading. What the author is saying is that while Canada is entertaining the refugees status of a few U.S. deserters, there are the black, brown and poor (i.e. Sudanese, Nigerians, etc.) who face torture and execution back home if they fail to recieve refugee status in time.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

This author is saying that although he doesn't agree with Bush or the War on Terror, those three deserting U.S. soldiers trying to get refugee status deserve to be sent back to the U.S. and face the music for their desertion. He is saying that claiming they will face undue persecution back home is laughable.

But I guess if he doesn't like Bush or the War on Terror then everything he has to say is anti-US and lies, right?