There was a time when Canada stood for something in this world and her fighting men were second to none. Juno Beach, Battle of Britain, France and Flanders, Korea are but a few examples. Rick Ballard is right, you should spend less time castigating those who cover your now sorry ass and more time reflecting on how and why that ass degenerated into its sorry state.

Some Canadians are French.

1) Make Peace

2) Make Everyone Happy

3) Make All Problems Go Away

4) Make Humankind Immortal

5) Make Everybody Love Everybody

This is especially despicable in that you get to simultaneously ignore your enemy (who will kill you if your imaginary enemy Bush quits fighting too soon) while letting someone else do the dirty work of protecting you, while you take advantage of the opportunity to treat yourself to an exalted, airy, lofty, feel-good, above-it-all position that you have not earned and could not posture to were it not for real people enabling your entire lifestyle for you–and getting no thanks, but rather hatred, for the privilege.

Let’s play a game. It’s Sept 12 2001 and you’re George Bush. What to do? Top 5 items on your list.

You know about Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo because of military investigations of allegations. People have been “held responsible” for Abu Ghraib, they have been tried, found guilty and sentenced to prison. The allegations concerning Guantanmo do not rise to the level of “crimes” and any contraventions of standard treatment have been appropriately dealt with.

All of the above has been reported by officers and officials of the US government. The fact that you are seemingly unaware of those reports is simply additional evidence of the depth of your ignorance.

Why don’t you work on the image of the Canadian fighting man? Hitchhiking to the battlefield has made him rather a pathetic figure these days. Given the fact that Canadians have had honorable fighting forces in the distant past I would think your time better spent trying to figure out what happened to Canda’s image.

Kyda’s reference was to you being an idiot – although Lenin did refer to “useful” idiots and I don’t think you make the cut.

As far as casualty numbers go, I haven’t seen them discredited exhaustively, but am willing to review whatever statistics you can link me to. And if those numbers are wrong and only one third of the truth, isn’t it still an outrage?

Kyda, I don’t know where the “Lenin” reference comes from (are you implying that I’m a “Commie”? that one’s a little old, don’t you think?). But, you’re right, a lie told enough times is still a lie. Aren’t you tired of being lied to by your government? How much more are you willing to put up with?

And, finally (for now), is anyone willing to respond to the question in my previous post? Should the abuses of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo be made public and those responsible held to account? Don’t you think that would improve the image of the U.S. military abroad? If you don’t think it matters, Buddy Larsen, then you’re the one that needs to do some critical thinking.

neck-deep in the Oil-for-Food scandal,

which literally and directly stole food from the mouths of babes,

lectures the USA

(freer–at great cost–of fifty-five million slaves in two terror nations of the mideast),

on the subject of

“moral standing”?

I say, go to hell, and don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.

Rick Ballard, now you’re just being mean.