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Originally Posted by phe1249  You are incedibly wise. Of course their motives were well intended. The Bush adminisgtration did not seek out to gain a 51st state or oil. Gas today in my hometown is 4.45 per gallon. The role of the U.S. military in my life time has basically been humanitarian. U.S. and Canadian fought in flanders in WW1 and many came home vegtables, victims of nerve gas. The League of Nations vowed this would never be tolerated again. Iraq had a leader who used it on his own people and most in Canada, and other places critized my goverment for removing him. |
It was because of the U.S. failing to participate fully in the League of Nations, and the complete crushing of the German economy and people that World War II was inevitable. But typical of so many of my fellow U.S. citizens, you haven't a clue about real world history and politics.
If daddy Bush hadn't helped Saddam get the chemical weapons, he would have had the to use on his own people. And if the war criminal junior Bush hadn't invaded Iraq, and had stuck with the search for the Saudi citizens that attacked us, gas in North America would probably still be around $2.85 or $3.00, as Iraq would still be exporting "oil for food".
And maybe Afganistan wouldn't be exporting so much cheap heroin and binLaden would have been brought to justice by now. Instead he's hiding in Pakistan, stirring up jihad there, and trying to get control of their nukes. Oh, by the way, 15 of the 9/11 hijackers were SAUDI. Four were of unknown nationality. None were known to be Iraqi or Iranian.
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Originally Posted by phe1249 I think the U.S. U.K relationship is much stronger than that of U.S. Canada. U.S. Aussie is stronger as well.
Many Canadians have a real opinion of Bush and what he has and has not done but your last P.M. really damaged our two nations long standing relations. |
I hope you continue to believe that after they cut off our oil supply. After all, we import more oil and natural gas, as well as electricity, from CANADA than from anywhere in the Middle East! Their hydro-electric plants (especially in Ontario and Quebec) power much of the north-east U.S., and their natural gas heats most of the same area. We also get most of our lumber from Canada, though that has changed some under CAFTA (the Canadian American Free Trade Agreement) which preceded NAFTA by several years. NAFTA was mostly about U.S. companies sending U.S. AND CANADIAN jobs to Mexico.
As someone who grew up less than a mile (as the crow flies) from the N.Y./Ontario border, and still lives less than a 100 mile drive from a border crossing, I am deeply offended by the way SOME U.S. "citizens" think of our neighbors to the North. I use the word citizens in quotes, because so many U.S. citizens show such a lack of citizenship it is appalling. And to our neighbors to the North, I offer an apology for the crude and revolting behavior of so many of my fellow "Americans".