72 % of Canadians support the US war effort

[Pongo]

Arent my Country men fickle...
Honestly.Its hard not to support the US and British war effort watching it for the last few weeks.
If you took the french canadians out of the mix we would have the same support rating as the US I bet.

[Drunky]

If CNN was reporting this they would say..."Only 72% of Canadians support the US ware effort"

Carry on

[Ripsnort]

What were the polls prior to the war?  Bandwagons are easy to jump on when the road is smoooth...

I was in the camp that "We should only go in with UN approval" but once we were in, I was 100% in support of the Commander in Chiefs' decision.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Drunky
If CNN was reporting this they would say..."Only 72% of Canadians support the US ware effort"

Carry on

This is exactly the little quips I was speaking of in regards to press politically favoring one side or the other,nods of the heads, raising of eyebrows to emphasis their "opinions", a play on words..etc.

[Pongo]

About 72% against..
The UN thing was a big deal here.

[john9001]

UN sec gen , leaders of france,germany and russia are having a meeting, wonder what they are talking about?

[lazs2]

hmmm... thrawn just told me it was 48 48... 4% undecided i suppose.
lazs

[Yeager]

You had better gain an accurate assesement of the UN over the past 50 years before putting so much of your countries decision making proccess in jeapordy to maintain a completely broken international government.

The UN is like a real nice rental apartment that has been overrun by dopeheads, thieves amd murderers while the minority of decent folks looked the other way, bound and determined not to think too poorly of their new neighbors lest the scum conclude that the rich ones needed to get whacked.  

Well.....guess what happened when you werent paying attention?

[bushdog]

Yesterday, I read an interesting column in one of the Sun chain of newspapers that may help shed a little light on why the country that I help to finance is not officially supporting our traditional allies in what, in my opinion, is the right thing to do.  My take on the editorial is as follows:
Q:  Who owns the largest stake in Iraq's pre-war oil industry?
A:  TotalFinaElf, head office in France.

Q:  Whom are the directors of said company?
A:  Jean Chretien, Prime Minister of Canada, is one of them.

Q:  Who is the single majority shareholder in TotalFinaElf?
A:  Jean Chretien's son-in-law.

If anyone can support or refute this, I would like to know more.  If true, then France and Quebec have been benefiting from repressive regimes for some time, and given Chirac's and Chretien's chummy relationship with Robert Mugabe, get a bad feeling when I think of what we may be associated with later.

Made me wonder, though.

[Scootter]

Well put Yeager

I really wonder if they will ever be relavent again?

[SLO]

Originally posted by Pongo
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If you took the french canadians out of the mix we would have the same support rating as the US I bet.

then you'd be called AMERICAN......dweeb

always pointing the finger at anything french EH!!! <70's show on>  handsomehunk!!!!  <70's show off>

[SLO]

Originally posted by bushdog
 If true, then France and Quebec have been benefiting from repressive regimes for some time.

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yo!!! no brainer...Chretien is the leader of CANADA not QUEBEC.....

WTF would Quebec profit from Chretien anyways...we gave em too you, he's yours to do as you see fit....but why did you put em as PM anyways....that I'll never understand

[Pongo]

I stand firmly behind any ridicule or contempt I have shown towards French Canadians. I would rather be American then French any day.

[N1kPaz]

Dude...that 70's show if cool!

Red is one hard asz mo fo and its hilarious.

[bushdog]

Well, I asked anyone to support or refute the editorial, or even to find out if any others had read it, so is that true or not?