Yyz717 From Canada, joined Sep 2001, 15989 posts, RR: 59 Reply 2, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 1273 times:
Hey Paul,
many Canadians agree with you. Like you, we are ashamed of Canada's decrepit armed forces that cannot even expedite humanitarian aid half way around the world. Thank goodness for the USAF being able to assist the tsumani victims so quickly.
Please ensure that your successor is equally critical of Canada's socialist and other anti-Western policies. As long as Canada is protected militarily by the US, you have every right to criticize Canada's shameful selfishness regarding our poor military spending.
Please remember that the biggest demonstration in Canadian history was right after 9-11 when 200k Cdns gathered on Parliament Hill to demonstrate solidarity with the US.
Ignore the anti-Americans and socialist claptrap coming from Canada. They are a vocal minority largely concentrated in poor provinces (such as Manitoba). Let them twist in the wind in their own hatred.
Long live the US and Canada as partners and friends.
Panam, TWA, Ansett, Eastern.......AC next? Might be good for Canada.
Yyz717 From Canada, joined Sep 2001, 15989 posts, RR: 59 Reply 4, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1236 times:
Dear Kim Jong-Il.
We have a hard-left anti-Western socialist here. He'd make a great North Korean. Please invite Airplay to Pyongyang. He'd love to participate in your command economy. He hates the US just like you and no longer wishes to live in a Canada enriched by US trade.
Signed,
patriotic Canadians.
Panam, TWA, Ansett, Eastern.......AC next? Might be good for Canada.
Airplay From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 5, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1207 times:
Dear Abby,
I have been having a great deal of trouble lately with a certain frustrated closet fascist who hates himself for living in a country he obviously despises. I guess I could ignore this person, but he often makes outlandish unsubstantiated claims about me.
Do you think this person just needs to relieve his sexual tension, with the gender that meets his true preference or is the self-loathing caused by some sort of chip inserted by the CIA during his years of service as an undercover eastern block stripper named Frieda....
Signed
Concerned Canadian.
YYZ717, can we now stop making outlandish baseless claims?
SFOMEX From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 7, posted (8 years 3 months 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 1144 times:
As long as Canada is protected militarily by the US
Is it true? I wasn't aware that Canada needed American protection. Is this official, kind of a mutual agreement? I remember than Canada sent thousand of brave men to fight WWII, so maybe they work together in defense matters.
Quebecair727 From Canada, joined Apr 2001, 328 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (8 years 3 months 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1099 times:
Dear YYZ717,
Is it my computer or is it you that changed? I just noticed that you have moved to Bouvet Island. Or is it that you are now ashamed of your origins? I guess not because you signed patriotic canadians. Must be my machine.
L.1011 From United States of America, joined Aug 2001, 2209 posts, RR: 10 Reply 9, posted (8 years 3 months 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 1085 times:
Is it true? I wasn't aware that Canada needed American protection. Is this official, kind of a mutual agreement? I remember than Canada sent thousand of brave men to fight WWII, so maybe they work together in defense matters.
Canada is our largest trading partner and one of our best friends. And the fact is, Canada doesn't exactly make many enemies, so the few enemies they do have just hate the West and are our enemy as well, so we work together with the Great White North.
CPDC10-30 From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2000, 4759 posts, RR: 27 Reply 11, posted (8 years 3 months 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 1071 times:
Did those of you here tearing a strip out of YYZ717 even bother reading the article? Cellucci's comments should not be a surprise, he is pointing out that our lack of strategic airlift that delayed our response to the tsunami disaster. Can anyone dispute this?
Yyz717 From Canada, joined Sep 2001, 15989 posts, RR: 59 Reply 12, posted (8 years 3 months 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 1065 times:
Cellucci's comments should not be a surprise, he is pointing out that our lack of strategic airlift that delayed our response to the tsunami disaster. Can anyone dispute this?
Exactly. Celluci's comments were bang on. Of course, some Canadians are so filled with hatred of the US that they protest even the benign and correct analysis of a US embasssador.
Canada's strategic airlift is pathetic. We operate some of the oldest Herc's in the world dating from 1964. Their mx costs are staggering. Canada needs new C-130J's and a larger aircraft also -- possibly the C-17 and/or new Airbus A400M.
Dear YYZ717,
Is it my computer or is it you that changed? I just noticed that you have moved to Bouvet Island. Or is it that you are now ashamed of your origins?
Oh chill out Quebecair. It's just an av site on the internet.
Panam, TWA, Ansett, Eastern.......AC next? Might be good for Canada.
Canadi>nBoy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 13, posted (8 years 3 months 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 1037 times:
Personally, I also feel that Paul Celucci's comments and observations were accurate, and agreeing with him does not in any way, shape or form make me
or any other person who holds a Maple Leaf pasport 'less' of a Canadian, less than patriotic. That is absolutely absurd. This line of thinking is, in my opinion, conducive to the very problems we face as a nation today re global military/peacekeeping capabilities and mandates. I think in many ways that both the Federal government and many Canadians truly have blinders on.
And when the truth, the facts as they are, are presented to us by, God forbid, and American, hackles are raised. This is truly idiotic.
Yes, Canada had an illustrious past in terms of military involvement and superlative peacekeeping campaigns, and we have every right to be justly proud of those acheivements. However, I feel that in many ways, the government and many Canucks are transposing those acheivements from another era into the Canada of 2005 and beyond. Paul Martin's minority government wishes to illuminate Canada as the quintessential role model of
peacekeeing on the world stage - what a joke. The government truly believes that the military infrastructure currently in place is apt and will serve the needs as they so arise.
I concur with those who pointed out, as an example, the horrific Tsunami disaster in southeast Asia, and Canada's subsequent poor response to the immediate, urgent needs of Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand, mostly in regards to the implementation of the Canadian D.A.R.T. As we all know, the Government pointed out the fact that D.A.R.T was not implemented because we were not called upon by the Sri Lankan government to come to their aid? Bullshit. I find that an insult to my and every other Canadian's intelligence. Correct me if I am wrong, but since when does a nation wait to be 'invited' to respond to a major disaster, when minutes and days mean countless more lives lost? And while I'm ranting on about this, I still cannot comprehend the fact that Paul Martin elected to remain in Morocco during the critical days following the Tsunami disaster. Some may argue this is a moot point, but I respectfully disagree.
But of course, Ottawa didn't, and does not see the Tsunami ill response in that light. In their collective eyes, we are still a strong and viable player on the world stage. Yeah, right.
Paul Celluci held up a figurative mirror to the Canadian people, who in turn did not wish to see the image which was reflected. That's not only sad, it's pathetic.
Quebecair727 From Canada, joined Apr 2001, 328 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (8 years 3 months 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 1005 times:
Brrrrr! It's cool tonight. We have a cold front coming from southern Bouvet Ilsand. I guess this is just a normal thing. We don't get a lot of warmth coming from that part of the world. Better get used to it.
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