<OT> We won't back down...

[Gerry Doris]

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Keith Antoine wrote:

> At 11:54 AM 28/03/2003 +0930, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 11:27, Collins Richey wrote:
> > > Some of us support the troops.
> >
> >Knowing this is waay off-topic :) I think the troops deserve our 110%
> >support. It is the leaders of the relevant Governments that may not
> >deserve our support.
> >
> >James
> 
> Well we have got our SAS troops over there with the coalition and also
> our 2 rowboat navy, plus some AC that we bought off you, <grin>. We are
> getting the peace at anyprice s**t thrown at us too, but the majority are
> behing the PM and the troops.
> 
> Keith Antoine OZ Forever.

Well, here in Canada the pot is boiling.  The Canadian government has 
distinguished itself by abandoning her traditional allies of Britain and 
Australia and thumbing it's nose at the US.

One of our cabinet ministers standing on the Parliament steps in Ottawa 
criticized Bush to reporters calling him, among other things, a failed 
statesman.  That followed comments shouted in Parliament by a Liberal 
(ruling party) MP of "screw the US".  Another Liberal called the US a 
"bunch of bastards".  None of these members were censored publicly for 
these comments.

Remember that Canada is the US' largest trading partner.  Just imagine 
what the trade numbers look like from our side of the border!

The US Ambassador to Canada, John Celluci was highly critical of Canada's
government a couple of days ago.  He also suggested that Canada would pay.  
As Celluci pointed out, it's ironic since Canada has a handful of soldiers
with the US forces in Iraq along with a destroyer and two frigates
inspecting ship traffic in the Persian Gulf.  We also sent 1000 troops to
Afghanistan to backfill US troops freeing them up for Iraq.  All this and
the idiots in Ottawa are stating we don't support the war as long as the
UN doesn't support it.

Once again, our government is trying to have it both ways.  We stop far 
short of France and Germany but won't support our allies and partners.  
We've embarrassed and isolated ourselves.

Prime Minister Chretien has cancelled a trip to the US and Bush's visit 
here on May 5 is now "uncertain".

I am absolutely certain that there is some kind of screening process for 
politicians to ensure they only have negative IQ's.

-- 
Gerry

"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer