Iamswamee: I am sorry to read that you are leaving. I wish you would change your mind. Please understand that not all Canadians hate the USA, or even that it is an inherent trait of Canadians. You have to understand that liberals control nearly the entire media in Canada. The very leftwing CBC is on free TV and is broadcast in different languages to every little village in even the most remote parts of Canada, thus Canadians are indoctrinated in liberal views and taught to despise Conservative values, i.e, low taxes, small government, less government in people's lives, personal responsibility, freedom, family values and Christianity. Liberals hate our national anthem because it says "God keep our land glorious and free!"
It is drummed into your head from practically the day you are born. It takes a strong mind to see through the relentless propaganda. Heck, the wildly successful Fox News Channel is banned in Canada. Anyone caught with their signal is subject to 6 months in jail or a $10,000 fine. However the wildly anti-American and anti-semitic Al Jazeera was just approved a license to broadcast in Canada by the CRTC (a body that is stuffed with unelected liberal hacks who decide what Canadians can and can't view on their TV).
If there was a liberal President in the USA, there would not be so much hostility against the USA from Canadians at this time. The hostility comes from there being a Conservative president in the USA. That is the root of all the hatred because of the indoctrination Canadians are subject to. Brad gave an excellent example when he said he didn't care that Jean Chretien's daughter and son-in-law had huge monetary interests in France's TotalFinaElf oil company (a company that was in bed with Saddam); he thought that Chretien did the right thing by putting blood money first and the genocide of Iraqis second. Why? Because it is the opposite of what the Conservative George Bush thought. It is what Brad has been taught since he was a small child.
Our media's views could be summed up like this:
Clinton spends $77 billion on war in Serbia - good. Bush spends $87 billion in Iraq - bad.
Clinton awards Halliburton no-bid contract in Yugoslavia - good. Bush awards Halliburton no-bid contract in Iraq - bad.
Clinton imposes regime change in Serbia - good. Bush imposes regime change in Iraq - bad.
Clinton bombs Christian Serbs on behalf of Muslim Albanian terrorists - good. Bush liberates 25 million Muslims from a genocidal dictator - bad.
Clinton calls for regime change in Iraq - good. Bush imposes regime change in Iraq - bad.
Clinton bombs Chinese embassy - good. Bush bombs terrorist camps - bad.
Clinton commits felonies while in office - good. Bush lands on aircraft carrier in jumpsuit - bad.
Clinton says mass graves in Serbia - good. Entire world says WMD in Iraq - bad.
No mass graves found in Serbia - good. Not all Iraq's WMDs found - bad.
Stock market crashes in 2000 under Clinton - good. Clinton recession continues after 9/11 during Bush administration - bad.
Clinton refuses Sudan's 3 offers to take custody of Bin Laden - good. Bush fails to capture Bin Laden instantly while searching the twisted labyrinth of underground caves in the no-mans land of Afghanistan - bad.
Clinton bombs an empty tent in Afghanistan - good. Bush destroys training camps in Afghanistan - bad.
George Tenet 's CIA screws up for 8 years of Clinton administration - good. George Tenet dismissed after screwing up under Bush - bad.
Milosevic in custody (but not convicted of anything years later) - good. Saddam in custody - bad (you should have seen the long faces on the CBC News the day Saddam was dragged out of his rathole).
I hope this gives you an idea of the kind of "critical" thinking Canadians are subject to by their media in Canada. Canadians are taught to hate anything that is conservative, thus their hatred for George Bush. All of the TV news is controlled by liberals and there is only 1 national newspaper that offers a different perspective (conservative) - that being the National Post. It is truly surprising how good the Conservatives do in this country under those circumstances.
I hope this helps clear things up and I hope you reconsider your decision to leave.
Off to bed for me now, but I will be back soon. I see some more "interesting facts" have sprung up since my last visit. Hopefully Brad can stay on topic instead of veering off course and talking about the Shah of Iran on a thread about Iraq.
ROTFLMAO
