Canada must start pulling its weight

Angstrom

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I don't think Canadians are incapable of defending our borders. We just don't have the ability (given our small population) to do it conventionally. If the U.S. ever decided to try though, the guerrilla war would make Afghanistan and Iraq look like a picnic.

Why would we even bother?
Just to suffer out of pleasure?
 

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If you shake it more than three times, yer playing with it!

It depends on how you shake it. If you plug the holes, fill it with shampoo and water, and shake it like you would a dish with hard-to-get-at spots to clean, then you're just practicing good hygiene.
 

MHz

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Get somebody to go to Baffin Island and defect to Greenland, we can then go rescue then over the next 3 decades 4 years and 7 months, flip a coin to see who get the island for which season, early winter or late winter.
 

Sons of Liberty

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Actually, I take issue with what you've written. You obviously have no idea of Canada's history when it comes to world war or other battles we've been involved in (i.e. Korea).

Sure, I do.

Canada has ALWAYS fought far more than her weight.

I cannot tell you how many times I have heard this line, unlike yourself I am not going to smear any fallen soldiers by disrespecting their memories. You should open up a real history book before shooting your mouth off. Any contribution, to any war is a remarkable achievement in and of itself. NO country can "punch" above its weight, that is sheer nationalistic broohaha. Grow up.


I find it extremely funny when American movies portray how the Americans have saved countries from devastation from the bad guys with no mention of what had happened before the Americans even were involved. Guess who likely made it possible - at the cost of many lives no less...the Canadians that's who. Vimy Ridge is a perfect example.

I find it even funnier you are using Hollywood (a major player in the ENTERTAINMENT industry) as documentary evidence of your assertions. Vimy Ridge, Ditsy Cup, is immensely significant within Canada because all Canadian divisions fought as a cohesive unit, it is considered the first step into independence. It is NOT considered significant outside Canada. Read history, not newspapers.


You can brag all you want about American achievements but a lot of them were only possible because the Canadians made it so.

Show me where I bragged, Ditsy Cup. And if that makes you sleep better at night, I'm glad we can be of service.


We may be small but we are mighty and we will fight to the death if the cause is Just and Right! Don't EVER underestimate the Canadian Forces. We may be small, but we're very highly trained and EXTREMELY SMART!! Ask anyone in the Military of every Western Country - UK, Germany, France, Australia and even your own American Forces. You don't screw with a Canadian Forces.

JMHO

As long we understand it's your opinion, we're in agreement.

Oh, silly me, I forgot about the UN Peace Keeping Force that we participated in as well.

Nobody is denying your participation in peacekeeping.

Well when u live beside the most gentle giant on earth , You take advantage of it and blow all you're money on partying

Well I have to hand it to you, I can't argue with that.

Being, as we acknowledge the fact that even if we spent 100% of our government yearly budget on military, we would not even come close to having a military strong enough to fight back a United States attack on our sovereignty, with that budget.

I recognize that this frustrates you obviously, but as you can see it's perfectly logical for us to simply not defend at all.

So we choose to be accommodating. You say that as if we had a choice in the matter.

Where the **** do Canadians get the moronic impression the US has any desire to go to war with Canada?

It's the standard reponse to uppity Americans.

Actually I'm not uppity at all, I'm just wondering what history book you read.

Pretty much. Canada is essentially a vassal state.

:roll:
 

darkbeaver

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Sure, I do.
I cannot tell you how many times I have heard this line, unlike yourself I am not going to smear any fallen soldiers by disrespecting their memories. You should open up a real history book before shooting your mouth off. Any contribution, to any war is a remarkable achievement in and of itself. NO country can "punch" above its weight, that is sheer nationalistic broohaha. Grow up.
:roll:

Give me one title of a real history book.
 

Angstrom

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I still think we should have at least one very strong military branch, that stands out, and is a strong asset to our allies.
Sometimes you need to have something impressive to wip out.

Even if it's proven Canadian's have much bigger cock's then American's that's not what I was talking about wiping out.
You obviously miss read this post I made earlier.

Sons of abitches. Lol
 
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Zipperfish

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Actually I'm not uppity at all, I'm just wondering what history book you read.

Well, that's certainly not the way you come across. Anyways, I consulted a traditional folk tune here in Canada called, obviously enough, the War of 1812.

Come back proud Canadians,
To before you had TV.
No Hockey Night in Canada,
There was no CBC.

In 1812 Madison was mad,
He was the president you know.
Well he thought he'd tell the British where they ought to go.
He thought he'd invade Canada,
He thought that he was tough.
Instead we went to Washington,
And burned down all his stuff.

And the White House burned, burned, burned.
And we're the ones that did it,
It burned, burned, burned.
While the president ran and cried,
It burned, burned, burned.
And things were very historical,
And the Americans ran and cried like a bunch of little babies Wah Wah Wah
In the war of 1812.


Mandatory learning in Grade 3 in Canada.
 

Sons of Liberty

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Yes, I'm aware of that cute little diddly, it's a product of your inferiority complex, you have to constantly come up with national myths to boost your egos.

It's a shame really, you have real history you can be proud of, instead you go an "invent" embarrassing baseless historical facts that just further fuels your narcissism.
 

Angstrom

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Yes, I'm aware of that cute little diddly, it's a product of your inferiority complex, you have to constantly come up with national myths to boost your egos.

It's a shame really, you have real history you can be proud of, instead you go an "invent" embarrassing baseless historical facts that just further fuels your narcissism.
You're the one that created a thread with the sole perpuse of making us feel inadequate.

What do you call somebody like that?

You are provoking the behaviour you are accusing us of having. And then accusing us of having a behaviour that you are intentionally provoking.

Are you trying to justify you're belief's?
 

Sons of Liberty

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You're the one that created a thread with the sole perpuse of making us feel inadequate.

What do you call somebody like that?

You are provoking the behaviour you are accusing us of having.

I started a thread for the purposes of discussion, that by the way, had nothing to do with The War of 1812, Vimy Ridge or any of those conflicts. It was an attempt to get a few opinions on the state of your military today. BTW the article was written by a Canadian for Canada. In the article she mentioned that the US spends way too much on military, which btw I agree with 100%. I didn't get offended by the comment, she's right!

Why do you get offended?