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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (14502)	4/23/2011 8:06:46 PM
From: axial	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37219

Re: "... they are dying honourably but for US foreign policy... not for our freedom..." Yep. Bush put tremendous pressure on Canada to fall in line with "the war on terror." That has become a costly debacle governed by neocon agendas and the US military-industrial complex. Bush is a moron, says Chretien aide "The remark was evidence of tension between the United States and Canada, which has offered less than wholehearted support for Washington’s campaign against Iraq. The President may have been speaking in general terms about defence spending, but Mr Chrétien’s delegation saw his remarks as a veiled reference to Canada. John McCallum, the Defence Minister, had on the same day said that Canada would decide for itself how much to spend and rejected pressure by the US Ambassador in Ottawa to buy six US-made transport jets at £100 million each." timesonline.co.uk --- As one commentator put it: "The main reason for Canadian troops in Afghanistan is to get our trucks across the border." Jim