[quidnunc]

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As the threat of war grows, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien stood on U.S. soil Thursday night and warned the United States that it is not trusted in the world and needs United Nations legitimacy for a war on Iraq.

If an American president in Canada said something like this about Canada, Canucks would go out of their rabbit-assed minds with rage.

The Prime Minister spoke just hours after U.S. President George W. Bush urged U.S. allies to "show backbone and courage in the face of true threats to peace and freedom."

Jean Chrétien is a rat bastard!

Query: Is Canada still an ally of the U.S. or is she in cahoots with France and Germany in their plot to diminish the influence of America on the world stage and get rid of Tony Blair so as to insure the primacy of the Paris/Berlin axis in Europe?

[TheBattman]

United States that it is not trusted in the world and needs United Nations legitimacy

No, it's the UN that lacks legitimacy and needs to get a backbone in dealing with Saddam/Iraq.

What these creaps are trying to prevent is the end result of possible US leadership in taking care of the problem. The simple result is proof positive to the world that the UN is irrelivant. The other sad fact for them is that our so-called "allies" in the UN - France and Germany to name two in particular - know they will be hung out to dry when we go in and find even more evidence of thier ugly ties to Saddam and his WMD programs.

[weikel]

Well if they piss off enough America will become much bigger.

[speedy]

Time to go back to the "Vive le Quebec libre" card? They want to mess with us, we can mess with them.

[ffusco]

Canada along with Brazil is part of the French sphere of inflence. Not to be trusted.

[Post Toasties]

As the threat of war grows, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien stood on U.S. soil Thursday night and warned the United States that it is not trusted in the world and needs United Nations legitimacy for a war on Iraq.

With all due respect, Canada, France and Germany are speaking as nations that do not believe that significant terrorism will occur again if nothing is done about the proliferation of terrorism supporting regimes. Since that is, at best, unprovable, and we have seen with 9/11 the results of following the types of policies that these countries are currently advocating, to the extent that they are suggesting any proactive response at all, the US, with the authorization of UN Resolution 1441, should feel free to discount such counsel.

[A2J]

As the threat of war grows, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien stood on U.S. soil Thursday night and warned the United States that it is not trusted in the world and needs United Nations legitimacy for a war on Iraq.

And this from a country which has based its entire existence and legitimacy upon its ability to leech off of the U.S..

[mabelkitty]

Let's start trouble.

Let's enrourage Canadians to overthrow their form of government in favor of freedoms enjoyed by Americans.

Let's make fun of their stinkin little French speaking territory.

[aculeus]

Bumper sticker: I Am a Weasel and I vote.

[ricpic]

This is tragic. Two hundred years of a remarkably good relationship, all things considered, pissed down the drain. And for what? So that some third rate pol can say: "See. I showed those Yanks."

Tragic and pathetic.

[geedee]

[Post Toasties]

Even the governments of Canada, France and Germany will admit that the only reason that Saddam has complied at all to date is due to the presence of 150,000 mostly US troops.

Given this, it's hard to see how these very foolish or very duplicitous governments should be taken at all seriously, nor should they, unless they simultaneously offer to replace the US troops with a military option that will create similar pressure on Saddam. I haven't seen them even begin to address that. And now it's too late to them to start.

[Stefan Stackhouse]

Then maybe it is time to start securing our Northern border.

[mlo]

"The price of being the world's only superpower is that its motives are sometimes questioned by others," Mr. Chrétien told his audience.

One of the perks of being the world's only superpower is that we don't have to care. :-)

[headsonpikes]

"Jean Chretien is a rat bastard."

Can't be repeated often enough. He is the Khruschchev-type baboon successor to the Stalinoid Trudeau. A mere political thug. Vote Alliance, Ontario, or it's all over.

[Grig]

Good luck finding a Canadian that trusts the PM.

The Canadian people are mostly with the US on this, but the minority who are not are the ones in control of everything, including the media.

If the next election doens't result in a major change up here, I'm going to leave I think.

[houstonian]

"The price of being the world's only superpower is that its motives are sometimes questioned by others," Mr. Chrétien told his audience.

These ideologists are just so damm dialectical.

[ZULU]

"Jean Chrétien"

That says it all. (Does his name mean John Cretin in English???)

French Canadians like French Frenchmen, hate Americans and Anglos. It wasn't so long ago these lunatics wanted to set up a separate country north of the border. Too bad George III didn't deport all their butts back to La France after they got their butss kicked in the French and Indian War.

Hoepfully, the English Canadians do not reflect the sentiments of this misplaced Gaul.

[We Happy Few]

That does it! I'm not buying any more Weetabix.

[bushfamfan]

The President should cancel his visit scheduled for May. Canada really is overstating its friendship with our country.

[Pippin]

Does this mean I have to remove the Canadian flag from my prifile page?

Not trying to make trouble, just asking a question.

I'm really disappointed in Canada and the Canadians, to tell the truth I've even defended them here on FR. Now they've joined with Germany and France?

Maybe Western Canada should succeed and join with the US and lest the eastern half of that country go thier own weenie way!