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As a Canadian I can assure you that sadly it is true. The Canuck public is seething over the performance of our so-called leader in regards to the war. Had Bush not clearly taken him out behind the woodshed when he was in Washington (the look on his face coming out of the meeting told us everything we needed to know) Chretien would probably still be denying that Canada had any terrorist problem at all. This was after our own intelligence service had warned him on numerous occasions that cells were raising money in Canada.

The Liberal government (and you in the States have no clue how appropriate that name is for these clowns) has systematically gutted our once proud and strong armed forces. If you think Klinton used the U.S. Military for social experimentation you would be positively appalled at what we've been witness to in Canada. To top it off, we have a Defense Minister whose greatest qualification for the job is that he used to be Mayor of Toronto (read: no qualification at all!). Our Imigration minister is a shrill vacant headed woman who accuses anyone who questions our outrageously open refugee policy of being a racist of the worst order, and I'm not exaggerating. These people have no clue and only care about their own political skins, regardless of the damage they do to the country. To make matters worse, our system of parliamentary democracy has none of the checks and balances in your system so the Prime Minister of a majority government can operate effectively as an elected dictator.

Our armed forces personnel are furious at these developments. They are proud and extremely well trained which does go a long way to make up for our equipment and numeric shortfalls. We do in fact have some people in theatre now, likely members of our commando force as well as some naval assets. The only good that may come out of this on our end is that the vast majority of sleeping Canadians have finally had our lack of military preparedness laid bare and we don't like it one bit.

Canadians, with the exception of some aging draft dodgers that can't seem to get over their hatred of thier homeland, have a great deal of affection for America and Americans and have no illusions about who is really protecting our great land mass. It is embarrassing and frustrating that when America asks for our help our stupid, venal, oh-so politically correct Liberals are defying the will of the population and humiliating us in front of our absolute best friends. I guess they just can't bear to risk losing any of the "peaceful moslem vote."

You have our apologies and admiration. We will correct this problem at the next election, G-d willing.