A Suggestion for a Northern Neighbor, Canadians Need to Mend Fences

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President Bush visited Canada this week. Bush had a simple message from his voters: We are in it to win it in Iraq. The message is not getting through the thick heads in Canada. The Globe and Mail in Toronto dared to deploy the headline: U.S. sets about mending fences. Those who broke the fence should fix it. As one friend to another, I suggest that Canadians begin by learning how to say, Were sorry. Canadians can start by apologizing to the people of Iraq for not lifting a finger to close the rape rooms and torture chambers of Saddam Hussein. The 300,000 bodies found in the mass graves of Iraq bear silent witness to an evil that too many good men ignored for too long. Canada sat on the sidelines with France and other former powers, while Bush led a 30-nation coalition to defeat evil. For refusing to participate in the liberation of 24 million people, the least Canadians can do is apologize. Next, Canadians can apologize to Israel for doing nothing to stop Hussein from financing the murder of thousands of children and other innocents over the years. It is no coincidence that the suicide bombing of Tel Aviv subsided once Hussein was captured. To use a word favored by socialists, Canada had become an enabler nation. Canadians should apologize. To his credit, Paul Martin, the new leader of Canada, has instructed his representatives to begin voting against anti-Israeli resolutions in the United Nations. After 40 years of wandering in the pseudo- intellectual desert of anti-Semitism, Canada will once again recognize the right of Israel to exist. That helps. Next, Canadians should apologize to their allies for their sorry excuse for a military called the Department of National Defence. In the 1990s, choking on the cost of their socialism, Canadians cut their military. They took the cheap way out and hid behind an American shield. Today, Canada is little more than a protectorate of the United States, unable to muster 60,000 troops. Canada is now Guam with hockey teams. The hockey teams might be better equipped than the military. Canada is pitiful. It just finished acquiring four used submarines from the British Navy. The Brits charged only a token fee for these subs, which were mothballed after problems with propulsion and the flooding of torpedo tubes. The subs are being retrofitted to carry American torpedoes more hand-me-downs. The military refers to a submarine without torpedoes as a target. How far the mighty have fallen. On D-Day, 15,000 Canadian troops stormed Juno Beach and 1,074 soldiers were wounded or died. The Royal Canadian Air Force took the toughest assignments in Europe. Finally, Canadians should apologize to their children for failing to care enough about their freedom to defend it. Canada was not alone in mooching off the American military. For years, NATO translated into French and German as those dumb Americans who will protect us from invasion. Nonetheless, the cowardice is unworthy of those brave Canadians who fought for freedom 60 years ago. If Bushs visit got Canadians to think about these things, they should thank him.

Don Surber may be reached at 348-1245 or donsurber@dailymail.com.

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A Suggestion for a Northern Neighbor, Canadians Need to Mend Fences

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