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great points as always vena :)
good to see you around these days...
been a long while..i think we here in Canada are slightly biased against the war, and i think its for the following reasons...
1) we're so damn big a country, with so much empty wilderness, no country in their right mind would ever attack us...theyd end up lost in the big forest and never be seen again..
(ok..that was mostly just for fun)2) with a vast store of natural resources, virtually unlimited fresh water and our own oil desposits, its hard for us to contemplate attacking someone else for them...we gots it all right here, thankyaverymuch....
2) Canada has for a looooong time now had a pretty good reputation as a peacekeeper force..
as armies go, ours is obviously small in comparison to many others..especially our neighbors to the south...
but thats ok...we have a 10th the population...
and c'mon..what, are we gonna compete with the yanks on the most kick ass army?
not likely...
so we do what seems the most logical thing..
instead of a massive military we choose a slightly smaller one, and use it to help keep the peace..4) all that being said..
if someone, anyone, can produce unquestionably, some proof that this dude is more of a threat than half the tinpot dictors, including the dear leader of North Korea, and is more likely to start throwing weapons of mass destruction around..than say...oh..pakistan and india (who lets face it, are FAAAAR and away more likely to come to blows with them) then OK...go into iraq and have done with it...but...
if you can't find it..
cuz it aint there..just someone for the love of gawd admit that this is nothing more than old style empire expansion..
anyhow thats what it seems like to me vena..
(but then again, i get most of my material and info from my brother in law...one of the writers at http://zmag.org
:)