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2003-03-28 Proud to be a Canadian This entry has, I think, been a long time coming. I've just never been quite sure how to word it so that it doesn't offend anyone; I still don't know if I'm sure of the best way to go about it. But I have to say something. Anyone who's been reading my diary lately knows how I feel about the war. (For those of you who are just stopping by, I'm against it). But there's something that everyone should understand: I, like Bush's administration and its supporters, think that Saddam Hussein should be put out of power. He is a horrible man. But what I disagree about is the method. Going to war isn't the answer. If a few guys had been sent in quietly to get rid of him and his higher-ups, maybe the world wouldn't be as fucked up as it is right now. There's no way to guarantee that, just like there was no way to guarantee that the war strategy would be a fast operation as the US government told people it would be before the war began (sidenote: it's interesting that the story has quickly changed; now they're saying that we can't expect it to be quick). But this is all a moot point now. The troops have been sent in, bombs and missiles have been launched, so the US and UK can't retreat now. If they did, they'd look like chickens, and then Saddam would re-emerge and all hell would likely break loose. Therefore, I hope that the UK and the US are successful. I'm hoping that as many soldiers as possible will come home safely, that Iraq will be liberated from Saddam's reign, and that we can all stop holding our breath. BUT. All of this anti-Canadian, anti-French, anti-Germany, anti-everyonewhodoesn'tsupportthewar CRAP is pissing the hell out of me. Apparently, some of the American people are quite displeased with us Canadians because our prime minister has refused to get involved in the war. Supposedly, there's an entire town in Illinois who is currently anti-Canadian. There's some asshole who sells computer parts who now refuses to sell anything to Canadian buyers. To that I'd like to respond by saying: Big fucking deal. Newsflash #1: We Canadians do have our own Canadian companies that sell computer parts. To whoever this guy is, if you don't want to sell to us, that's fine; we'll keep our money in our own country if that's the case. Newsflash #2: Guess what? Canada is an independent country from the USA. We can make our own decisions about our own troops. In fact, some of our troops are in Afghanistan, working on the job that Bush decided to leave unfinished so that he could go play cowboy. It was OUR choice, and we made it. Live with it. Maybe Mr. President could take a page from our book: although I'm sure our PM had many other reasons for his decision, maybe part of it was that he actually listened to his people, chose not to ignore the multitude of demonstrations that have taken place and continue to do so. A lot of Canadians are, of course, worried about US-Canadian relations. Apparently, some US people are refusing to take vacations in Canada this year, which will hurt the travel and tourism industry. I'm not saying that the relationship won't be strained, but what fearful Canadians have to remember (and maybe some US citizens as well, for that matter) is that Canada supplies the US with some much-needed natural resources, such as Hydro power, lumber, etc. If the US ends up wanting to be pricks about our decision, we could (not saying that we would) cut them off from said resources, and Americans could sit fuming about us stupid Canadians in the fucking dark. To those Americans who feel this way, you can go to hell, because Canada is not the 51st state of the US. |
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