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mbarrick
I am supremely choked this morning. Probably every Canadian has seen this in news already, but I doubt this is going to show up much in the American media. One of your fuck-head, ill-trained, trigger-happy soldiers dropped a bomb on us, killing four and seriously injuring eight others. This happened in a training area, not a combat zone. Let's take a look at how we've been treated by the U.S. government over the last few months:- First the U.S., taxes the living shit out of our wood simply because we produce it more efficiently, all the while paying lipservice to "Free Trade"
- Then, after 9-11, Bush completely fails to mention us in his speech despite the fact that we took in all the grounded planes after the airports were shut down and we lost people in the WTC as well, nonetheless we send troops to Afghanistan to help out.
- Meanwhile, we continue to get shit on over the lumber tariff, and
- we get threatened with wheat tariffs.
- The U.S. wrongfully arrests and convicts one of our citizens simply for legally doing business with Cuba (in what is probably some twisted political manoever to try and win the next election in Florida without cheating)
- Bush just assumes we'll play ball with his energy plans,
- and he tries to further walk all over our sovereignty (at least we said "fuck off" to this one)
- and then, we get a fucking bomb dropped on our soldiers!
"We are in a very, very dangerous business," Maj. Bryan Hilferty, a U.S. military spokesman, told reporters at Bagram Air Base north of Kabul. "We play with stuff that kills people."Play? Play?! That's the bloody problem, American soldiers are, generally speaking, badly trained, given a whole crapload of technology, and they think they are playing a damn video game. An incident like this happened in the Gulf War as well, but to the British. Two thirds of British casualties in ground operations in the gulf were caused by Americans. Most American casualties are caused by Americans.
And the Americans wonder why the rest of the world either hates them or sees them as a fucking unfunny joke.
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I know...
Date: 2002-04-18 09:56 am (UTC)Re: I know...
Date: 2002-04-18 10:01 am (UTC)Second off - *click* Whutz wrang wit ahr gun kontrol lawz?
Bonus points for Tim Burton
Date: 2002-04-18 10:02 am (UTC)Re: I know...
Date: 2002-04-18 10:05 am (UTC)Canada simply *must* annex Florida. Cubans could come and go as they pleased. Bush would be assured of losing the next election. And you could be Canadian and get all the Timbits you wanted.
Yer gonna laugh...
Date: 2002-04-18 10:06 am (UTC)Re: I know...
Date: 2002-04-18 10:07 am (UTC)Pondering acts of sedition.
Re: I know...
Date: 2002-04-18 10:10 am (UTC)Second Off: What was I thinking? I mean any ole shmoe with fake ID SHOULD be able to waltz down to thier local Wal-Mart and pick em self up a gun! *tongue firmly planted in cheek*
Re: I know...
Date: 2002-04-18 10:15 am (UTC)When I eventually make my trek to visit friends in Seattle you must join Capt. Canuk while we swap manly stories and drink.
You might help keep the macho testosterone levels down. Ooo and you can do my hair all gothy!
"friendly fire" my ass!
Date: 2002-04-18 10:41 am (UTC)can i emigrate to your country now? i don't like this one anymore- it stinks. :{
on an amusing note however, i caught "that 70's show" the other night when the guys try to go to canada to get beer... :}
Re: "friendly fire" my ass!
Date: 2002-04-18 10:54 am (UTC)Stupid Sonsobitches
Now, I have friends that are American (as many of us do), and please understand me that I do not hate yanks on an individual level - my anger is directed at their government and foreign policies. They, of all people, should know a little bit about war and deadly weapons...but somehow this shit actually happened! And you can bet that the US news will NOT be making this their cover story, oh no.
Just how many more times are they going to shit on us? Yes, we're a nice, polite, friendly nation. We are continually taken advantage of, and do little to retaliate because, well, it IS the USA after all, and they are 'bigger' than us. Frankly, I don't care how big the bully is. He's GOT to be put in his place. On a personal level, I am insulted, pissed off and feeling very vengeful as a result of this event.
Re: Stupid Sonsobitches
Date: 2002-04-18 11:27 am (UTC)Trust me I know first hand!
I am a good Yank though so be nice. Besides I am St. Verkan too.
Re: Stupid Sonsobitches
Date: 2002-04-18 12:28 pm (UTC)"An American can be intellegent, but Americans are ignorant, stupid, and trigger-happy."
Never forget that we kicked their ass (http://www.galafilm.com/1812/e/events/wash_burn.html) when they tried to invade.
LMAO!!!
Date: 2002-04-18 12:29 pm (UTC)Ooo and you can do my hair all gothy!
You'll have to do an allergy test though, I had a bad experience dying someones hair black and trust me, you DON'T wanna know what the reaction was like...
To be fair
Date: 2002-04-18 12:37 pm (UTC)Re: LMAO!!!
Date: 2002-04-18 01:03 pm (UTC)The trip is still on the drawing board though.
I used to act in local theater and still tend to temp dye the hair for special occassions. I will allow a test though for safety reasons.
Bye
*applauding*
evilyn
Re: *applauding*
Date: 2002-04-18 07:59 pm (UTC)Re: *applauding*
Date: 2002-04-18 08:24 pm (UTC)evilyn
Re: *applauding*
Re: *applauding*
Date: 2002-04-18 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Re: Bonus points for Tim Burton
Date: 2002-04-18 11:48 pm (UTC)Re: Stupid Sonsobitches
Sorry if I am incoherent... I'm sleepy. ;-)
no subject
Date: 2002-04-19 01:13 am (UTC)(oh wow, someones going to chop off my dick for saying that one) ok here comes alittle more stereotypicaly american ignorance.
where is the canadian capital anyways? ;-)
ROFL!
Date: 2002-04-19 08:47 am (UTC)no subject
Re: Bonus points for Tim Burton
Date: 2002-04-19 08:51 am (UTC)Re: Stupid Sonsobitches
Americans suck.
Date: 2002-04-19 01:01 pm (UTC)Truth, justice, and the American way.
Date: 2002-04-19 01:14 pm (UTC)Of course it isn't your fault where you are born (fact of the matter is I may *be* an American citizen if I bothered to chase down the paper trail, not to mention I was married to an American), but for every person that has their wits about them there seems to be ten more that actually believe all the propaganda. America was founded on remarkable, noble ideals. Unfortunately your own government has been slowly eroding them and outright abandoning them for the last century.
Re:
Date: 2002-04-19 01:59 pm (UTC)How about a multimedia website?
Date: 2002-04-19 02:09 pm (UTC)Re: Truth, justice, and the American way.
Date: 2002-04-19 06:07 pm (UTC)Re: Bonus points for Tim Burton
Date: 2002-04-19 06:57 pm (UTC)