Letter From Canada: The New Christian Right (Nation Moonbat Goes Nuts Over Tories Alert)

The Nation ^ | 11/02/2006 | Chris Hedges

[GMMAC]

"We carried our weight at one time."

[twonie]

Don't be so quick to blast off about "my country". You are way out of your league here.

[GMMAC]

"You are way out of your league here."

... and, presumably, this above assumption of yours would be based upon your now 10 day experience on FR ??? (... snicker!)

FRiendly advice:
It's mouthy newbies who generally don't last long in the 'league' hereabouts.

Just keep going from thread to thread disparaging one of America's true friends & allies if you wish to find out.

[fanfan]

Don't be so quick to blast off about "my country". You are way out of your league here.

How nice of you to join FR just to push people around.

Good luck with that, noobie.

[twonie]

Hey, fanfan, check your spelling before you head for the deep end of the pool.

[fanfan]

(Just because there are fewer of us don't mean we are wrong.)

LOL!

I'll check my spelling when you check your grammar.

[albertabound]

From whom and just when have you defended us. When it is required, we put our money where our mouth is and I have the dead relatives to prove it. Last time I checked, where were you guys in 1812?. Sure as hell not protecting us.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

"Maybe you should be flattered that someone noticed you and thought to write about it."

If you count an article in The Nation as a flattering notice for anything but another Moonbat, you might have a point.

Having Hedges/The Nation scrawl out another attack on .... oh, you could cut to the chase and describe the villains as anyone to the right of Jane Fonda, but "Christians" will do for this episode....lowers the value of that notice to less than having a cat knock over your garbage can. I have to admit that I just skimmed through it, but I got the distinct impression that I'd heard the identical screed at least a half dozen times over the last five years, only Harper's name had been papered over Bush/Cheney/fill-in-the-neocon for this occasion.

Plagarism used to be considered an ethical lapse, until libs started copying their own blige with such happy frequency that it's devolved into a mere lack of originality.

(On the subject of notice BTW, you might try discussing your point of view BEFORE you start throwing rocks......and please keep in mind that while you are speaking for yourself, you may reflect on a whole bunch of others.)

[alarm rider]

Respectfully, due to your geographic location, you have been able to spend your money on other things besides defense. We know that and so do you.

[proud_yank]

Thats good advice!

[proud_yank]

LOL! Check out post #7.

Pot...kettle......

[fanfan]

I know, LOL!

[proud_yank]

IIRC, Canada had much higher casualty rates on D-Day than the US, no?

[proud_yank]

Loooong siiiiigh....

[GMMAC]

"Canada had much higher casualty rates on D-Day than the US, no?"

"Allied losses had been high: 2,500 men at OMAHA alone, another 2,500 among the American airborne divisions, almost 1,100 for the Canadians, and some 3,000 for the British—more than 9,000 men in all, one-third of whom were killed in action. Even so, the number was less than Allied planners had expected. Concerned that Hitler would respond to the invasion with extreme violence and might even resort to poison gas, Eisenhower's chief surgeon, Maj. Gen. Albert W. Kenner, and the Chief Surgeon of the U.S. Army's European Theater of Operations, Maj. Gen. Paul R. Hawley, had prepared their staffs to process at least 12,000 killed and wounded in the First U.S. Army alone."

Source, about 2/3's of the way down the page

Overall, the U.S. apparently took more casualties.
Without further research as to the numbers of total forces committed respectively by each nation, it's impossible to know which took more on a percentage basis.

Suffice to say, all loses suffered were significant & much is owed to the heroic gallantry of all of our troops involved.

[proud_yank]

Someone had told me that the rates were higher for Canadian troops, don't know if that was as a function of population or army.

Suffice to say, all loses suffered were significant & much is owed to the heroic gallantry of all of our troops involved.

Amen to that.