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Quid, it looks like I have to eat my words from the other thread - this article looks pretty positive towards Canada as well as your president. Thanks for posting it.

BTW, the prez's visit here was a real class act and I really appreciate his thanks to my countrymen who helped yours following 9/11, including a few I know in my old home town of Halifax/Dartmouth.

While our countries will always have their differences of opinion on some things, we also have many things in common. I hope we will sign on to the missile defence plan and do whatever we can in Iraq now.

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What did you expect? Most FReepers only bash those who are hateful. Countries are made up of individuals, each responsible for his or her own actions. Take Parrish for instaqnce. She isn't "canada", she is "a Canadian" and her words were diplomatic acts of verbal war. HER wer bashed with glee, as did Canadian FReepers.

And then there was Chrétien, who was taking lessons from Chirac. His words weren't verbal acts of war; just extremely stupid, inflammatory and bad for diplomatic relations. They were meant for public consumption on state television, to blind the public to the real state of the Canadian military. In that they succeeded, at least for a time.

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Thanks for your kind words. I hope the reaction to our President is just like this article suggests.

I was certain that after 9-11 there WERE acknowlegements and statement of thanks made to the Atlantic Canadians for their kindnesses. It distresses me to read that it either didn't occur or was perceived to not have occured. That the message somehow wasn't heard.

I know from personal experience that the level of gratitude in the hearts of Americans for the help and kindnesses shown by the Canadians during those days was quite simply beyond any measure.