[quidnunc]

Quote:

The fact is the United States is currently practicing what one American commentator described as "foreign policy by snit." And like most snits, it will all blow over soon. … Besides, Chrétien never had a chance with George W. Bush. Bush's attitude toward the French — and that includes anyone who speaks French — is straight out of the Howard Stern school of international diplomacy.

This must be some of that vaunted Canadian moral superiority we hear so much about these days.

[alnitak]

I think I'm going to throw up.

[prairiebreeze]

OH. MY.GOD. We live next to a country governed and reported on by idiot morons.

Prairie

[curmudgeonII]

If all Canadians felt this way [and it's necessary to remember that Montreal is the second largest French speaking city in the world], the Canadian flag ought to be changed to solid yellow.

[IvanT]

Man, this is the dumbest article I've ever read. Keep in mind, it's from the French Canadian Montreal Gazzette. I don't feel one bit safer because of Chretien's decision, after all, how are terrorists abroad going to be able to distinguish us from you?

[arkfreepdom]

These morons better worry more about SARS and its effects on their puny pissant country's economy and less about how their ineffectiveness and irrelevance affects the US.

[FairOpinion]

"With all of the hand-wringing over Canada's decision not to get involved in the American-led invasion of Iraq, one little detail has almost escaped public notice. By refusing to participate, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien has done more to protect Canadians against terrorist attacks than George W. Bush has done for the United States by attacking."

Maybe he should read this news item about the suitcase full of anthrax heading for Canada and having been discovered because a sailor died, and how many others haven't been discovered?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/901851/posts

Is Chretien admitting that he is gave in to terrorist blackmail to not support us?

I wonder what's in the Iraqi dossiers about him.

[Desecrated]

Riiiight...and I wonder how Creatin's (sic) association to TotalFinaElf played into his "moral superiority." I'm sure Al-Queda will be sure to look for tiny canadian flags on backpacks before their next attack. These folks just don't get it.

[Nonstatist]

Canada is very closely associated, in people's minds, with the United States. Thus, the fact that we refused to knuckle under to American pressure greatly improves our moral standing.

But not with the United States, it doesen't. You will pay, you feckless Canuckians... How about we make border crossings very unpleasant? Oh, and Don't pat youself on the back too hard, you might get hurt.

[white trash redneck]

Quintessentially French Canadian.

[NYDave]

Canada? Where's Canada? How many countries might ban Canadian travellers because of the SARs situation? I travel a lot to the Dominican Republic where there are a lot of Candian ex-pats and tourists. I'll wave my American passport around so that I am not confused with someone bringing in SARs from Toronto. Nothing against Canadians, but I think the article is extremely lame.

[Cachelot]

Hey, Cretin - your candy shipment is ready..

[river rat]

My long held suspicion that Quebec was inhabited by hopeless and clueless clymers -- has been confirmed...

It MUST be in the French genetic footprint - to be back stabbing cowards.

They wish to be loved by the world --- and angry at no one - so long as they are killing non-Canadians...
They mistake being irrelevant with being admired.

These Canadians bear CLOSE watching.

Semper Fi

[laredo44]

By refusing to participate, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien has done more to protect Canadians against terrorist attacks than George W. Bush has done for the United States by attacking.

The thing that ultimately protects Canadians more than anything else is America's military might and her good will towards her neighbor to the north.

The ability of (some) Candians to suckle at America's teat while pretending the rest of the world respects them confirms the difference in the two countries' paths to independence. America won hers. Canada whined for hers.

[skeeter]

What a pathetic, snivelling pultroon.

[HitmanLV]

Bush's attitude toward the French — and that includes anyone who speaks French — is straight out of the Howard Stern school of international diplomacy.

What kind of crack is that? Dubya displayed no animosity to the French before their recent antics in shilling for Saddam. This articule is very dishonest.

[truth_seeker]

It should ALSO be observed that our Canadian neighbors are SAFER, because America would protect them, regardless of their INSANE, self-serving policies.

[SouthernFreebird]

So regardless of whether one agrees with Chrétien's decision or not, everyone should recognize that he has, in effect, made the world a much safer place for Canadians.

They have no shame...I would rather die as a fighting American than live as a cowardly, terrorist a$$ licking Canadian.....it's gonna be real hard to feel any sorrow when they are attacked.

[timm22]

Setting aside the pros and cons of the American invasion of Iraq, the fact remains that the overwhelming majority of the world's population opposed it. Canada is very closely associated, in people's minds, with the United States. Thus, the fact that we refused to knuckle under to American pressure greatly improves our moral standing.

So regardless of whether one agrees with Chrétien's decision or not, everyone should recognize that he has, in effect, made the world a much safer place for Canadians.

What a wonderfully direct and concise example of the mindset plaguing the European world.

Forget about what may be right, wrong, or in the best interests of your country or the world at large; if you act, people might not like it.

Better to give in to the demands of evil people and hide quaking in the shadows so no one will be mean to you. Better to ignore the pleas of your allies and of suffering people than to be disliked by dictators, fanatics, and hate-filled ignorant serfs in far away lands.

I feel terrible for those Canadians who still have some life in them and have to be associated with cowards like this.

[TonyWojo]

Joseph Heath holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political Economy at the Université de Montréal.

and probably related some way to DeGenova of Columbia

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Now, thanks to our government's decision to stay out of the war, we can be confident that Canadians are much less likely to be selected as targets by Islamist terrorists.

No, Canada is safe because, like New Zealand, no one cares what you think, do, or say.