Ew, Canada
: Glenn Reynolds is gratified that Canada’s House of Commons just voted to try Saddam Hussein for war crimes.
I’d be more gratified if Canada put its moxie where its mouth is and sent troops over there to help us bring him to justice, eh?
8 responses to “Ew, Canada”
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I feel the same way. But HEY, we DID send 31 troops (covertly), right?
WHOOOOPEEE!
[Oh, and on first reading, I thought you said “money where it’s mouth is” (like we have any up there!)]
Michael Demmons
disgruntled Canadian living in Atlanta who supports US troops! -
I’m not sure why you feel it requires “moxie” for Canadian politicians to ignore the principles of their constituents, and bow to American pressure.
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B:
It takes moxie to go and help arrest the guy you think should be put on trial. A judge without a police force is just a guy in a dorky, dark dress. -
I guess our question is whether the same guy should be encouraged to act as investigator, cop, judge, jury and executioner…especially when most of the neighbourhood has suggested that they’d like the regular cops to handle it.
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What’s the rush to send Canadian troops?
Maybe I wrong, but I don’t recall (history wise)the US rushing troops to Europe when either World War I or II broke out. Took a couple of years each time and a bit of a prompt didn’t it?
Pre-empting responses … yeah I know they tipped the balance that helped the Allies win the war.
Just for the record, I’m Australian, not Canadian.
Also because my American history is atrocious, out of interest can anyone summarise French Canada -
If all the bigmouth pro-war-blogger went toIraq you wouldn’t need to ask the Canadians for help.
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Actually, Canada has three navy frigates in the Gulf as part of Operation Apollo, aka the “War on Terror,” which, as Bush has told us, is also being fought in Iraq.
Chretien denies that these troops are being used in support of the Iraqi operation, though.
http://www.nationalpost.com/national/story.html?id=7C45F215-2066-46AF-B9F3-D6E8CD9BDFEE
So on the case of the war, Canada is literally both passive AND aggressive. And where’s the news there? -
Dearest Beer Bloke:
American Civil War (ACW) was fairly boring for Canada and french-canadians. The main concern was of a feared American Invasion of Canada. There were a few northern warhawks that felt the need to expand further north and west and let the south go to hell. (Yes, I am paraphrasing here.) This was not a popular view in anyway shape or form but still was heard by the british and canadians. England sent troops over as just routine deployment but the message was received by Lincoln and he assured british ambasador that there was no need. I have read several position papers that it was a brillant strategy by Lincoln to keep european recognition of the confederacy a bad option. “You recognize the south, we take Canada”, but most historians argue that it was simply not Lincoln’s doing, more some loudmouth mid-western hawks. It still worked out that way.
The only activity was a confederate raid into St Albans (Vermont or New Hamp. I am at my office and away from my library). They robbed a bank and killed some yankees. Don’t remember all the details, whether they were caught or not. Americans raised a stink and Canada denied knowledge of activity. This is true, as it was an independent strike and more for the bank robbery then a true confederate battle plan.
Danjo
Ack, I should have cap. some more words in there, please no disrespect intended, lazy and short on time to correct.
Drink beer, its liquid bread
