[quidnunc]

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Times like these bring out the worst and best in us. When it comes time to be counted, I hope Canada will stand up beside Jimmy Carter, Bishop Tutu, Pope John Paul II and the majority of the world's decent people who believe rogue governments like Iraq's can be disarmed with wise diplomacy and strong international consensus and not by a hawkish imperialism. Canada hasn't asked for this, but this may well be a time to show true Canadian grit.

Time for Canada 'to show true Canadian grit'?

And do what, pray tell?

One doesn't know whether to laugh or curse.

[Argus]

This one badly needed a Barf Alert tag. Some of us just ate lunch.

[tomahawk]

The writer of this "piece" is a moron.

[MEG33]

I wonder how the soft lumber trade talks are going?

[moyden2000]

Liberals are forever reliving the 60's.

[vbmoneyspender]

But at its heart was a genuine sympathy for the lost lives of ordinary people and a steely willingness to rally behind any sensible idea or cause that might prevent a reoccurrence of 9/11.

Most of that goodwill has been squandered now. The Bush administration has managed to drive a wedge between the American people and between America and the rest of the world.

Canadian to English translation - "We liked you better when you were weak and were taking casualties 3000 at a time."

[Ole Okie]

Liberals will never be able to give Ronald Reagan credit for destroying the evil empire. This idiot credits Lech Walensa, the pope, and Gorby Gorbachev. No mention of Reagan.

Guess the writer lives in his own little (and I do mean Little) world.

[Billthedrill]

When the Soviet empire crumbled under its own weight with an admirable — and nonviolent — shove from Lech Walesa, Pope John Paul II and Mikhail Gorbachev, Washington erroneously took the credit for it.

Without this historical revisionism the entire sanctimonious sermon falls apart. What Vietnam did was to give this sort of fool his firm hold on moral superiority and the notion that the truth consisted merely of however he wanted to present things. The U.S. victory in the Cold War should have served as a dash of cold water to this sort of heated imagination, which is why it is consistently and vigorously denied. The ironic part is that as long as we have our military he will enjoy the luxury of denying it to be necessary.

[Mrs Zip]

WHERE IS THE BARF ALERT????

[xzins]

Most of that goodwill has been squandered now. The Bush administration has managed to drive a wedge between the American people and between America and the rest of the world

It was OK to sit in a circle with our so-called international "friends," hold hands, and sing kum-ba-ya.

But as soon as we decide to kill the SOB's and their abettors who murdered our citizens, then we're crazy.

Crazy...my friends...is letting them kill you and NOT responding.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Since most Canadian snobs speak French, is it acceptable to call the Canadians "cheese-eating surrender monkeys?"

Or do they eat moose droppings instead of cheese?

[Hat-Trick]

Canada hasn't asked for this, but this may well be a time to show true Canadian grit.

The only true Canadian grit that we'll see in the future will be in the crease, the corners, and along the boards of the upcoming NHL Playoffs beginning in April. Other than that and a couple of pretty nasty muskie guides at Lake of The Woods, I don't think there's any grit left in Canada.

Hat-Trick

[Hildy]

SO, if we don't do anything to defend ourselves, we'll be loved.

[stayathomemom]

"a steely willingness to rally behind any sensible idea or cause that might prevent a reoccurrence of 9/11"
I wonder what that idea might be. Obviously war is ruled out as being sensible. Waiting around for people to no longer be evil is sensible though.

[sinkspur]

Politically, a national amnesia set in. When the Soviet empire crumbled under its own weight with an admirable — and nonviolent — shove from Lech Walesa, Pope John Paul II and Mikhail Gorbachev, Washington erroneously took the credit for it. That misconception set the stage for the kind of policy that rules today.

Not a mention of the man who actually defeated the Soviets, one Ronald Wilson Reagan.

These ungrateful Canucks are really starting to piss me off!

[Bedford Forrest]

"Washington erroneously took the credit for it."

Yup. Lech and Gorby did it all by themselves. That's the ticket. Seems like the national socialist aparatchiks in our northern economic dependencies are no longer trying to disguise their schizoid hatred of their moral, spiritual and economic superiors. Of course, not very surprising when one considers that their initial gene pool consisted mainly of Froggie trappers and Tory quislings who had to get out of town after their side lost the Revolution. They hate us because we always have been and always will be their betters in all respects. And such gutless cowards they are. We do Antietam and they do Meech Lake about says it all.

[adx]

A penitent America was a hopeful thing

Translation: Bend over and take it from terrorists.

I would post my response to this concept, but I don't want to be banned.

[What Is Ain't]

Leftist Canadian tripe. I couldn't get past the intro page.

[Alissa]

If you ask me it seems the Liberals are the ones coming unhinged!

[truth_seeker]

"...Pierre Trudeau's Canada offered sanctuary to thousands of young American war objectors..."

I have a cousin in British Columbia. Son of a career US Army officer, this fellow obtained a taxpayer funded education, married, and left for Canada.

He was never drafted, but has remained in Canada. Eventually they became Canadian citizens (after their son was born, so the son can be an American citizen, if he chooses).

I spent time with this cousin of mine, when his father died. A discussion with him reveals he is an adherent to "world socialism." His mind is frozen in the 60s "peace movement."

My guess is that he and his wife have mooched of the Canadian government. They are artists" and drive a beat up vehicle, despite now being in their late 50s and having university degrees.

Blood aside, "good ridance." I dare say my cousin left, because he was and is a coward, who doesn't know that the price for freedom is blood, courage, conviction.

[Morgan's Raider]

The Bush administration has managed to drive a wedge between the American people

Wrong, you stinking POM (Piece of Merde - see, I know French, too). The democrat party has driven that wedge with earnesty since the election of Ronald Reagan. Personally I'm getting a little tired of watching C-SPAM and being called a racist/fascist/Nazi/homophobe/bigot/xenophobe/child starver/old person killer by the hate-filled leftists calling in to "Washington Journal" every morning. This invective from these unimaginative shmucks is derived directly from statements made by their democrat "leaders".

The fact that we own most of the guns and they are not residing in concentration camps should immediately give lie to their invective. However, if the situation were reversed there is no doubt in my quasi-military mind these leftists would have us in "re-education centers" in a New York minute.