November 28, 2006
Like Fred posted, this excerpt is particularly interesting:
"If we attack the Canadians, they call for aircraft and bomb everything in the area. The U.S. only tried to kill the Taliban. The Canadians try to kill everybody."
Here's what I see. I see a group of savvy media manipulators trying to get out the message that Canadian troops are even worse than American troops.
I see an attempt to shock what they obviously view as a far more compliant population of media watchers into erupting into protest. I also see an attempt to replicate in Canada what we will soon see here. Hearings, subpoenas, and a general bogging down of the war effort.
I also see desperation. Unlike Iraq, Afghanistan is pretty much off the political radar in the U.S. The Pelosis and Murthas aren't calling for withdrawal from Afghanistan.
So all these losers have left is trying to convince the populations of our NATO allies that they, like us barbaric Americans, are nothing more than blood soaked oppressive butchers. A lame attempt to replicate the propaganda from Iraq.
Sorry, chums. Canada is even more hard to rouse from slumber than we are, but when we get together in a war, you're screwed.
I'll go out on a limb and guess that there's far more Canadians taking pride that their boys are bombing you into the Stone Age than not.
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http://www.thenewamericancitizen.com/2006/08/09/canadian-troops-gettin-it-done/
I don't see any bombs being dropped, do you?
Posted by: newyank at November 29, 2006 05:41 AM (XT7OJ)
Damn right.
The CBC floats the "out of Afghanistan" balloon every once in a while and so far they have had to slither back to their "Bush is evil" stories in defeat.
Today I could have sworn I heard the morning news announcer reminisce back to the election of the "cool and sexy Pierre Trudeau". Even by our standards, hell even by the CBC's standards that is creepy.
Next they will be airing Gay Porn by Karl Marx impersonators on their TV channel.
Posted by: Chuck at November 29, 2006 08:22 AM (XwT2T)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Ypres
The Canadians, initially held in reserve, realized the only place with fresh air would be near the German lines, as the winds would blow the gas away from there. The Canadians fought through using urine-soaked handkerchiefs as primitive gas masks. Although the battle was considered a stalemate, the act of reestablishing the front lines in such harsh conditions earned the Canadians much respect and foreshadowed their use later in the war as assault troops.
Basically, the Huns gassed them, so they pissed on their hankies and kicked and kicked some German butt.
Posted by: BohicaTwentyTwo at November 29, 2006 09:25 AM (oC8nQ)
Posted by: Fred Fry at November 29, 2006 11:04 AM (JXdhy)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,1826303,00.html
#2 Assistant to the commander quits saying campaign "is a textbook case of how to screw up a counter-insurgency"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2350795,00.html
#3 Top Nato commander says time is running out in Afghanistan, 70% of the population may support the Taliban in 6 months http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1009/dailyUpdate.html
One of the questions that I have been unable to answer using google is "How do you tell which of the dead people were Taliban?"
Posted by: John Ryan at November 29, 2006 12:17 PM (TcoRJ)
Proud and grateful!
I for one see them heroes who offer themselves as living Scarifice to God, Queen and Canada.
"but when we get together in a war, you're screwed."
Yes, quite literally in fact. I am getting the impression that lately the trend has been for the Canadians to go out and pick a fight with the Taliban who tries to get himself reinforced; at which point the Canucks ask for air support from the U.S. air assets who then dutifully pulverize the enemy.
"Canada is even more hard to rouse from slumber than we are"
Vinnie, there was time when the reverse was true. Canada entered WWII in 1939 and the U.S. in 1941.
Best
/GM
Posted by: Garduneh Mehr at November 29, 2006 04:01 PM (vixLB)
There is no war in Afghanistan. The dead Taliban are the ones killed while trying to disembowel, and draw and quarter schoolteachers.
Give up your propaganda war on the internet and go join them. Go earn your 72 raisins.
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at November 29, 2006 07:43 PM (bLPT+)
Posted by: ben at November 29, 2006 09:56 PM (+apwv)
Posted by: Fargo Levy at November 29, 2006 10:11 PM (PM8kH)
Are you saying our military is being outdone by Canada?
That is unacceptable! I demand our troops rectify this situation posthaste.
More viciousness now!
Posted by: MegaTroopX at December 02, 2006 03:28 PM (v5fbO)
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