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**MRT144** · January 25, 2003, 16:47

thats not even a good analogy...

Az · January 25, 2003, 16:55

Why not? because you're big and strong?

**The Mad Monk** · January 25, 2003, 17:00

Originally posted by Ned
Let me predict that France will be there with troops in the end.

...which end?

**MRT144** · January 25, 2003, 17:08

because it would be a completely different situation

basicly you want something from the US while the US prevents you from getting over run. you should be giving us something for our benevolence!

i agree though, we should pull out of the ME military and you should defend yourselves. its about time you did.

Az · January 25, 2003, 17:26

the US hardly prevents us from being overrun.
"our benevolence"

**Kramerman** · January 25, 2003, 17:37

Originally posted by SlowwHand

I agree. At the very end, there will be France.

If France was a man, Id punch him in the stomach...

**Alexander's Horse** · January 25, 2003, 19:39

Originally posted by Lancer
Are the Aussies are in because of the Bali bombing?

If you mean in the sense that the Australian Government hopes that by being a good ally The United States will one day save us from the yellow peril then the answer is yes.

**notyoueither** · January 25, 2003, 19:51

The United States is going to save Australia from Bananas?

**Alexander's Horse** · January 25, 2003, 20:18

see my other thread

**notyoueither** · January 25, 2003, 20:20

Well. That's a perfectly good 100-nil attempt ruined.

**Jaguar** · January 25, 2003, 22:02

Canada has 4 destroyers to the American 56. If they don't help, I'm not too worried.

**axi** · January 25, 2003, 22:05

Howard is IMO a fascist scum who is treating immigrants like **** just because they aren't white. He does what he does exactly because of the "Yellow Peril".

Apartheid is coming back... (not that it ever was absent in Australia...)

**Hueij** · January 25, 2003, 22:10

The Yellow Peril?? It is still 1948 in Australia?

**Alexander's Horse** · January 25, 2003, 22:31

Originally posted by Jaguar Warrior
Canada has 4 destroyers to the American 56. If they don't help, I'm not too worried.

You miss the point - the United States doesn't needs its allies cream Saddam Hussein. It could do that with one carrier battle group tied behind its back.

The US needs its allies to show the flag and make an essentially US operation into a multinational coalition for diplomatic reasons.

This exercise is also showing who are the closest allies of the United States. Its surprising Canada no longer wants to be in the inner circle.

**notyoueither** · January 25, 2003, 22:38

Canadian politicians of certain political persuasions feel a need to show that they are independant. Not to mention that it is not difficult for reasonable people to wonder where Saddam fits in the War on Terror.

Besides, we are inextricably linked to the gorrilla to our South. Neither of us could get rid of the other. We don't always have to play nice. The other is always going to be there. Not many nations other than Mexico are in that position vis-a-vis the US.

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