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On Jan 7, 2:16 pm, Dave Smith <adavid.sm...@DELETETOREPLYsympatico.ca>
wrote:
> E. Barry Bruyea wrote:
> > The real cowards sat staring at the Statue of Liberty for almost three
> > years while the Canadians were fighting Germans and even then it took
> > you another year before you did anything that might be considered
> > dangerous East of the U.S., you were too busy getting your collective
> > asses kicked all over the Pacific by those little Japanese guys.
>
> Wen they finally stared fighting in North Africa and Italy their record
> was not glorious. Patton had his guys "flanking" the enemy to "liberate"
>   Sicilian cities where there we no Germans, while the British and
> Canadians fought the enemy head on and defeated them. It was the
> Canadians and British who did most of the fighting up through Italy
> while the Americans tried another flanking manouvre and got trapped on a
> beach.
>
> They managed to sit out most of WWI. The didn't declare war until the
> Allies started gaining ground against the Germans, and it was the
> Canadians who succeeded where others had failed.  When they finally did
> get their men over to Europe they refused to take the advice of the
> British and Canadians about the tactics that had worked for them, so
> when they finally got into combat they reverted to the old ways, which
> had failed, and they got creamed.

Yeah, contrary to what their propaganda tells you, Americans don't
have what you would call a sterling war record.  They screwed up the
Korean War, the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Grenada, and now, Iraq and their
share of Afghanistan.