Posted on 05/02/2006 4:22:33 AM PDT by Kurt_Hectic
If I remember correctly, Norway did a lot more than simply criticize our war effort in Iraq.
Or what did you have in mind?
What's wrong with Norway is what's wrong with most of "Old Europe" -- they've fallen in love with their Socialist and Center-Left welfare state. What happens in 40-50 years when the North Sea oil reserves (and revenues) begin to run out? Will they want that strong alliance with America again?
If I may respectfully offer some advice to Norway - look at Canada.
The Canadian Prime Minister and members of his party constantly made insulting remarks about President Bush, and worked to undermine his most important goals in the WOT. And, surprisingly to the Canadian Prime Minister, he found it difficult to command Bush's attention.
But now, the Canadian Prime Minister has an excellent relationship with President Bush.
So what changed?
The Canadian voters threw out the lefties!
Hard to fathom Norwegians being the scourage of the world.
But hey I'll bite, No good Norwegians.
Well, in a pinch we could always turn off the oil taps for a few days. $350/bl might get his attention... :-)
So what? Since the recent Trans-Atlantic clash over Iraq NATO is stone cold death anyhow. The broad public (and its leadership) in "old Europe" does not believe in NATO anymore.
Nevertheless I think that this reaction is a littlebit overexaggerated. Other opponents of the Iraq war do not have to deal with such a offending loss of American goodwill. Even Gerhard Schroeder, who was one of the staunchest opponents of Iraq was invited and visited by G.W.Bush. Maybe because Germany is a more important country to the US? Anyway this kind of policy is not helpful.
Hehe! Good point!
I could hope that that would get the attention of our lefty politicians, who might then finally agree to open up ANWR and coastal areas for drilling.
Our home grown leftists wouldn't agree to drilling ANWR or any of our domestic resources if we all sent in pictures of our families burning furniture to keep warm.
Any chance Dubys *genuinely* doesn't have time in the forseeable future??
/sarc off
I see that there are still a lot of Quislings in Norway to this day.
Actually, after Schroeder played the Anti-American card to win in his previous election, Bush refused to return Schroeder's calls or schedule a meaningful visit with him for a very long time.
Glad to see the back of that slimy jerk. Looks like Schroeder is now collecting his paycheck from the Russians for services rendered.
You, sir or mam, are severely misinformed. Please do not smear my country with galling historical falsehoods.
Norway fought for 2 months before the nazis won and installed their puppet prime minister after the King and the government fled to England. Norway was NEVER a "docile servant" of the nazis.
The fact is that most norwegians considers the USA and Brittain its closest allies. But the lefties has to learn that the US responds and it actually has consequenses when the lefties talk about boycott of Israel, pulling out of the war on terror etc. Stimulus -> response.
He's probably thinking of Sweden!
Without Swedish iron ore many fewer panzer tanks would have rolled out of the Ruhrgebiet.
Finland did the same but I think in both instances it was simply go that way or die.
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