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I thought Chretien had some smarts for a second when he mulled re-assigning three destroyers already in the Gulf on the anti-terrorism detail. He had the opportunity to be even more duplicitous than the French.

Mais non!

He's a dolt. He can only read which way today's wind is blowing.

Blair's instincts tell him he will prevail politically in the end, when the operation is successful. Chretien is short-sighted with a deep anti-American streak.

After Iraq is cleaned up, Canada will go into sustained suck-up mode to the U.S., their natural posture. It will see some results, but nothing to what they could have had.

For two English-speaking nations, it will have been a tale of two leaders: Blair will have represented his people well; Chretien will have done permanent damage to his nation through short-sightedness and his irrational dislike of Americans learned at the knee of his mentor Pierre Trudeau.

Chretien, is too busy dreaming up his great society, which he wants to leave as his legacy, once he moves into retirement after January 2004. His priorities are big social programs, social engineering of Canadian society based on the pathological gay rights agenda, massive funding of day care, expanded health care programs, and multi-culturalism.

Militarism, truth and defense of freedom do not interest the governing liberals. They are aide and abetted by a leftist media elite, in firm control of the country, and preceive themselves invincible due to the split in the conservative center right block between the red-tories of former prime minister Joe Clark, and the Canadian Alliance led by Stephen Harper.

The Canadian public is even more guillible that the Europeans when it comes to matters of international politics, and national security, as they massively parrott the line issues by the majority of the Canadian media, and the Chretien liberals that the Americans are the agressor in this crisis in Iraq. As if the World Trade Center was never attacked !

The true nature of the arsenal of the dictator of Iraq is carefully hidden from the Canadian public, and the media take great pains to expound on any anti-American entertainer's sentiment, but sweep real news and facts concerning the threat Saddam Hussein poses to the global community under the carpet.

Chretien, deserves to get hammered for his cowardly actions by the US in terms of payback when it comes to bi-lateral relations.