"Tony Volk" wrote in message
...
To clear the record, I'm Canadian, not European. So *you* shouldn't
say
"you" without knowing who *you* are talking about. And as I mentioned
before, I'll leave my comments regarding France's behavior vs. U.S.'s
behavior to stand. I'll just throw in a very self-serving quote I came
across recently ;-) :

"Canada- lynchpin of the English speaking world, whose relations of
friendly
intimacy with the United States on the one hand and her unswerving
fidelity
to the British Commonwealth and the motherland on the other. Canada - the
link which joins together these great branches of the human
family"-Winston
Churchill

Please remember that my posts have not been meant to attack the U.S.
Rather, they are an effort to promote an understanding of the similarity
of
the behaviors of two different countries, in an effort to reduce the
baseless France-bashing some folks appear to be engaging in. Regards,

Baseless? Have you been hiding under a rock for the past year or so? A lot
of us consider the recent French governmental prouncements to be a quite
nice "base" upon which to embark on a nice bashing or three.

Brooks


Tony

I thought Europeans were against "preventive wars". I thought Europeans
were against wars not fought for one's own defense. That seems to be
what you have been telling us since September 11, 2001.

Before the US officially entered the war in 1941 America was providing
massive amounts of aid to Britain and Russia and Army Air Corp pilots
were fighting the Japanese in China under the transparent cover of being
"mercenaries". We were doing a great deal to keep you Germans from
destroying the world long before December 8, 1941.