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To: elbucko
Look up "hypocrisy" in the dictionary and you will see the Canadian Maple Leaf. When Britain was facing invasion by the Nazi's in 1940, the Canadians refused to allow British pilots to be sent to "Kanukistan" for training. They didn't want to violate Canada's "neutrality". Until '42, more British pilots were trained in Oklahoma and Texas than all of Canada

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm sorry, this is PURE and UTTER B*#*&$#!.

Canada declared war on Germany on September 9th, 1939. So in no way, shape or form could Canada been concerned about its 'neutrality' in 1941 because by that point, it wasn't neutral.

Most of the British pilots of WWII were trained in Canada because of the difficulty of training pilots in Britain in between air raids.

And prior to Dec 7th, 1941, uniformed British pilots wouldn't have been caught dead training in American facilities as it would have violated America's neutrality.

If you want to complain about the NDP, that's fine by me. Naive doesn't even begin to describe them as far as I'm concerned.

But I will not, under any circumstances, allow to you get away with posting such crap as you've listed above.

My grandfather started fighting in WWII long before any of yours did, and I will not allow to smear either his memory or the honour of the the country he fought for.

64 posted on 01/30/2003 5:24:09 PM PST by altayann
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To: altayann
Just so you'll know, not all of us feel the need to bash all Canadians and Canadian-American relations just because you have some loonies in your government. After all, we have no room to talk when it comes to having loonies in our government.
66 posted on 01/30/2003 5:28:21 PM PST by wimpycat (U.S.: Masters of our domain...France: morally bankrupt member of "old Europe")
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To: altayann
Canada, England, Australia and New Zealand created the Commonwealth Trainning Plan in 1939 and trained over 100,000 aircrew in Canada by 1945. The original poster is full of crap.
67 posted on 01/30/2003 5:28:29 PM PST by Snowyman
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