To: quehubo who wrote (123463 ) 1/21/2004 5:01:01 PM From: marcos Read Replies (1) | Respond to Yes, Bush is 'faced with present realities ', that is precisely the point ... i'm suggesting a better way that he can deal with them ..... but from the speech last night, it's clear he has opted otherwise, and for main platform will run on his permawarwants to think it is French '? - woo, that'll come as news to the quebecois ... sure they call their language 'french', but the last thing the french did for them was send las filles du roi, and that was a long time ago, they are a uniquely north american culture, with a long history that shows their sense of independence, a trait they share with canadians from coast to coast .... don't be deceived by the fraternal disputes with which we amuse ourselves up here, they won't separate and even if they did, what are they going to do, float the province away somewhere else and leave a big hole in the map? .... no, it's not like that .... thing about french-english here, is we had hockey yes, but felt we needed a little more entertainment than that to substitute for bloody civil war .... by the way, the regiment taking over now from the patricias in Afghanistan is called the vandoos, from the way you pronounce 'twenty-two' in french, they are the Royal 22e Régiment based at Valcartier, Québec, they have an extremely distinguished history in battle, the regiment was founded in 1914 to organise an overwhelming flood of volunteers
