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"Dave Smith" <adavid.smith@DELETETOREPLYsympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Siobhan Medeiros wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> 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.
>
> But they have an excellent record for indoctrinating their people with
> lots of propaganda to make it look like they are doing a great job, and
> use political pressure to march into open cities to liberate them after
> someone else has done the fighting. That is what they did in Rome and
> Antwerp. In both cases it was Canadians and British who defeated the
> enemy and the Americans who marched in as the victors/liberators.
>
> Speaking of Bay of Pigs.... it is little wonder that the Cubans have
> such a low opinion of the US. The US had been trying to acquire Cuba for
> more than 100 years before the Bay of Pigs fiasco. They started back in
> the 1850s. they lobbied Britain and France to allow them to seize it.
> They were willing to buy it, or to take it by force. That was pretty
> much the way the grabbed what is now the south western US. They tried to
> buy the territory from Mexico, but when the offer was rejected, so they
> provoked a war, and they settled the war by paying Mexico what they had
> previously offered.
>
> Americans have whined long and hard about Canada hiding under its
> defence umbrella. The fact of the matter is that we have never had to
> defend ourselves from anyone but the US. They have tried to invade us
> several times. They tried to invade Canada in the War of 1812, and
> failed, and still think that they won that war. Then the US colluded
> with the Fenians, allowing, even encouraging them to take over Canada.
> As far as invasions and self defence go, we have never had to defend
> ourselves from anyone other than the US.
>
>
> They were whining a few years ago about how they had saved Europe twice,
> but they overlook the fact that they tried really hard to stay out of
> those conflicts. Instead, they let the Europeans  pound the hell out of
> each other until they saw which way the wars were going.
>
> You cannot dispute that the US is a super power. It has the arms,
> equipment and modern technology. But it doesn't have is good troops on
> the ground.  Sure, they have a few units of elite troops, but those guys
>   face the brunt of the action and there is no one else to back them up.
>
> Look at their great heroes of the invasion of Iraq. They mounted a well
> choreographed and  filmed rescue of Jessica Lynch ..... after the Iraqi
> medical staff came across the lines to tell them that they should come
> and get her because the Iraqi soldiers had vacated. And what sort of
> hero was she?  She doesn't remember being raped, as they claimed she had
> been. She didn't fight off the enemy until she ran out of ammunition.
> Her rifle was jammed and she never fired a single shot. She was not
> involved in a combat mission. She was a passenger in a vehicle on a
> supply run, and they got lost and bumbled their way into an Iraqi
> position where they got wiped out.  And that was the best they could
> come up with for a hero.

hehehehehe, good response Dave, it speaks volumes about american
propaganda...