I am Canadian because.....

[fenderbender]

Canada is a moral superpower.
Canadians think they are morally superior to US especially.
They care more, everyone gets "free" healthcare, no handguns in the streets, fewer homeless, less racial tension, don't offend anyone.
I am Canadian but I thank God for the USA, the most generous country in the world, warts and all the best friend you could ever have.
I don't define my Canadian identity by what I'm not, such as those who suggest their most significant Canadian characteristic is that they are not American.
I'm very comfortable in my Candian skin and don't need to always be knocking the USA to make myself feel good.
USA stands up for things when Canada does not nor cannot.
Canada has an incredibly glorious military history right up to Korea, but all you'll read about today is peacekeeping and UN worship.
What a joke.
Those Canadian boys who died invading Normandy, liberating Holland, fighting Germans across Italy.
They were the real peacekeepers and if you go to those places people remember them, not that quack Trudeau.

So here's a toast to my brothers down south:

God Bless America

 

[HillBilly]

Well said.

Cheers!!!

 

[Frau_Pandora]

A very generalized statement, don't you think? Yes, those who died in korea, etc were valiant and are to be honoured. But, if their loss could have been avoided, if peace could have been kept in some other way...those very soldiers would have preferred not too watch their brothers blown to bits in front of them, or lie in ditches in mud with wounds while awaiting assisstance or watching the atrocities they were forced to commit against other human beings because war outright sucks. Soldiers like my great-uncles. 8 went away to war one day, 2 returned and both died later of shrapnel and wounds, they suffered horribly for years.

Everyone's entitled to an opinion, I don't judge yours. However...I heard the stories relived in the eyes and the suffering of family. Noone wins a war. The US's approach of heavy handed intimidation and righteousness is a modern reminder of The Christian Crusades, the Roman Empire and all the other many "powers" before it whose violence and oppression is matched only by it's immaturity and unwarranted greed.

I am proud to be Canadian and I am proud to be Canadian for many reasons other than our superiority to the US...but, yes, I am proud of that too. Our military may be under-developed and under-funded....but, then again, we're out for real peace. And, morals, in the end...are the difference between us and them.

Just my opinion and yes, a rather passionately stated one. lol.

 

[fenderbender]

I'm Johnny Canuck and I'm here to say...

God bless our neighbours in the USA!!!

I once saw a satellite photo of the Korean peninsula at night. The southern half of Korea was illuminated almost completely and was a dazzling brillinace of light.
The northern half of Korea and total darkness.
Amnesty International has reported that up to one million people have died of starvation in the last decade in the People's Democratic Republic of Korea.
So I would guess that those millions who live in freedom in South Korea and do not suffer the ravages and deparavities of the murderers who run a giant gulag in North Korea are eternally grateful of those brave Canadians who sacrificed to defend their freedom.

Perhaps if they are invaded again, Canada can defend their freedom with our current submarine fleet and weapons of mass moral superiority.

I wake up every day grateful that our neighbours to the south are not the French or the Germans, but our good friends the USA.

God Bless America

 

[prowler44]

Without the USA we would all be talking German. That might suit Frau Pandora but not me.

 

[fenderbender]

And without the considerable contributions of millions of brave Canadians in WW2, our second official language might be Japanese.

Noone wins a war?
Only the lunatic left could believe such a thing.
You stand for something or you stand for nothing.

Thank God the most powerful military in history is American. Imagine if it was French, or North Korean, or Iranian or Zimbabwean.

I'm proud to be Canadian, but don't have the inferiority complex that anti-American Canadians have. I also don't believe in launching Canadian weapons of mass moral superiority towards the USA at every opportunity.

Bomb France.

 

[therealrex]

I don't consider myself anti American but if they do something I don't like I say so. The US does things because it is in their own best interest to do them. Sometimes its the right thing to do and sometimes it isn't. When it isn't as a Canadian and a friend of the US I say something about it. As far as WW2 went when do you think The US would have gotten involved if Pearl Harbor hadn't happened.?

 

[fenderbender]

The US was already deeply involved in supplying Great Britain after German occupation of France in 1940. The Lend Lease program was accelerated after that and with German efforts to interrupt the US supply chain increasingly targeting American ships, it was all but inevitable that the US would enter the war in 1942 against Germany.

Fine to disagree with US policy, but I sense a growing anti-Americanism in Canada which is petty, small-minded and sniffs of moral superiority. A majority of Cdns would say they have more faith in the UN than the USA, which is absolutely preposterous.
Sad trend, no doubt the product of years of programming by lib left school teachers who live in their little cocoons of self righteousness.

 

[yendor]

johnny canuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, I do like Americans and I don't like their foreign policy and I am a liberal or Liberal whichever, and I am not morally superior and I did not whisk the Binladen Family out of the US of A after 9/11 but one George W. Bush did because he would rather drink oil than beer. Open your fucking eyes Johnny Canuck and you will see which side of the car your gas is being fueled on!!!!!!!

 

[fenderbender]

Since my brain actually works, I prefer to do my own thinking, but since you obviously would prefer that MMoore do your thinking for you, rest assured that there are many millions of sheep like you who swallow that garbage up with no questions asked. Baaaaaa...baaaaaaaaa...

I recommend a holiday in France or Germany.

 

[lenharper]

Hey Fenderbender --

I too would recommend a holiday in France. You could visit and honour the graves of the many Canadian soldiers who died on that countries beaches in two world wars. You could visit the Marie district and look at bullet holes on the walls where French Jews were lined up and executed by the Nazi's.

After a short tour to remind you on what the cost of war actually is in a country that has experienced it in recent memory you could visit some of the shrines of Western civilization like Notre Dame and the Louvre while visiting the streets where some of the most influential thinkers of the nineteeth and twentieth century lived. It might be nice to see them before you call for bombing it.

Another thing you could do is visit the bars, nightclubs and restaurants where you can have fabulous food and wine while feasting your eyes on some of the most beautiful women in the world.

Or you could just go to Kissimee Florida and watch gator rastlin' and chow down at the all you can eat buffet...

 

[yendor]

baaaa baaaa baaaa bull shit

Well FYI I have visited the war memorials in Normandy and I will be spending Remembrance Day in Ottawa at the National War Memorial Remembrance Day Ceremony. And no I did not see the movie by MMoore. I can read and form my own opinions as most thinking Canadians do. It is the sheep lead by shepherd Bush that need a brain tune up. So BAAAA BAAAA BAAAA to you!

 

[fenderbender]

It's sort of Crossfire For Perberts isn't it?
John Stewart had a good point. Partisan ping pong avoids a genuine debate of the issues.
I would rather stick my finger in a lectrical socket than debate economic policy, but I will note that the US had the highest standard of living in the world even before the American Revolution. American economic ascendancy was a fact of life long before WW2, although that certainly acclerated it.
But my original point seems to have been lost, namely that a pathetic kind of anti-Americanism has grown over the years in Canada based on Canadians in the majority feeling that their world views are morally superior to those of the USA. It's the same in continental Europe for the most part, with the hypocritic French being the most odious example.
I would certainly agree that war should be a very rare and exceptional alternative to diplomacy, but I agree with defending our freedoms against those committed to destroy them, WW2 being an obvious example for Canadians.
Any comparison of the current Iraq war to something like the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980's is misplaced in my view. There is a moral cause behind the US's actions in Iraq, even if you don't agree with the method. Nobody can argue that SHussein being removed from power is anything but a fantastic thing. And contrary to the quackocracy who claim the US presence in Iraq is only about oil, the evidence suggests that the US wants nothing better than a relatively free and stable Iraq who can join the community of nations. Canadians should get off their moral high horses and put their money where their mouths are.

What a shame that a country such as Canada with such an incredible miltary history of bravery and sacrifice has been reduced to a nation of pacifists who have let their military deteriorate to the point that their soldiers now die of smoke inhalation in used submarines off the coast of Ireland.

Oh Canada indeed!!