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Renegade 13 said:

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Oh and Canada has a military so weak it can barely defend it's own country and relies on allies for everything (not an insult here I'm just saying) so they couldn't go about any serious wars if they wanted too.

WHAT?!? What in the world do you base that on? The fact that they dont defend their southern border and rely on us to do it? You realize of course that we dont defend our northern border and rely on them to do it. In fact, most of the missile shield and radar services for the US is Canadian. Is it the fact that there has never been a Canadian war for Canadian reasons? They DO show up for every world war. They DO show up for every UN action in some very nasty places. Their forces are juast as capable and equiped as anyones.

Now if you wanted to say something like "all your decent war equipment comes from research an manufacturing of the US" then that would probably be true. But of course thats true of most of the world and Im not sure its anything I would want to brag about.

Crap I misworded it again I'm sorry to Canadians everywhere lol I did not meant to imply their soldiers were incompetent ro their technology inferior I meant NUMBERS wise they are by far no true military power and can't fight a "serious war" on their own....as it would probobly bankrupt them....sorry again.

Once again you are right Starhawk. We have a very small standing military force, as it would most definitely bankrupt us. However, we were in both world wars, and performed very well in them. IIRC, we had 1 million people serve in WW2, and we performed in many operations, and were some of the best sharp-shooters in the entire war. Still are actually. Snipers. We could not start a war if we wanted to, at least not without a whole hell of a lot of extra spending and armament. But maybe that's a good thing.

I'm sorry if lots of this has been said before, but I'm working my way back through the Posts, without reading the most recent ones http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

What can say you Canadians like practicing your shooting.....does it have anything to do with hockey or is Canadian squrrel that tasty? (heh sorry I'm just kidding)

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And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why the rest of the world calls Americans arrogant.

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Oh and no offense to any Canadians here, I hear it's a lovley country with polite people but lets face it in the grand world scheme of things most of the 3rd world nations probobly don't know what Canada is while 99.999% of the world knows of that huge ol' country the United States.

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Next time you're in Canada, try looking up a show called 'Talking To Americans'. They talk to university and college students as well as political candidates including presidential candidates when they can. I'm not sure if they are still running it, but if you can catch a show called 'This hour has 22 minutes' they'll have re-runs. Then, you can talk about the differences between Canada and the US.

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And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why the rest of the world calls Americans arrogant.

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Actually if you pay attention to the wording it is hardly arrogant, Americans have been everyhwere and usually it's in large numbers.
As others have pointed out so politely Canadians don't much go to other countries (em masse) so go ahead and ask an Afghani child if they know who Canada is I doubt theyd know.

How is that possibly arrogant or even insulting? It's just a matter of where your nation goes en masse vs where "private citizens" go and let's face it there are countries we here in the industrialized west don't know about (i'm talking on a citzen basis NOT government) and they probobly on average don't know much about north America so what are you claimimg i'm being arrogant by saying there are places in the world that your average joe on the street of a 3rd world country don't know about?

I mean damn man if you take everything an American says expecting it to sound arrogant and rude your going to find a way to twist it in your mind to sound arrogant and rude no?

Anyway Renegade as to what happened to my friend it was actually funny, he was stuck in Canada for two days before being "deported" (can't remember what they actually called it at the moment) to the US. basically they just sent him home because his passport was not entirely in order even after all the beurocratic stuff that took 2 days to find out what was wrong lol. but he hadn't done anything illegal so it was no big deal but it's not like the RCMP gave him a lawyer when they questioned him for the 4 hours.
Either way he thought it was funny because of the fact that his parents made a goof and he got to stay in Canada for two more days of vacation while the mess was sorted out. You know he never did tell me what was wrong with the passport heh.

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Starhawk said:A.) Canada is not worth being hit by a terrorist attack to a terrorist organization because as renegade pointed out so well THEY HAVE an ity bitty tiny population that is not as centralized as the average US big city nor are they as nationally diverse so blowing up a building in Canada would only kill Canadians and most likely far fewer dead (the terrorists were attempting to knock the towers over not make them collapse, estimated body count was nearly 100,000 dead had the towers fallen while rescue personnel were on scene and while the other buildings and streets below were crowded as their fall would have lead to a chain reaction for multiple blocks and killed so many people it's scary), in canada you just couldn't kill that many people that easily unless you dropped a nuke so less body count means less publicity which means not worth it.

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And as for Canadians themselves being morally superior because they never fund rebel Groups or anything, uh THEY'RE TOOO POOR buddy! Hand a blue Canadian dollar to a middle easterner he'd use it for toilet paper and then laugh at you (heck he might give it back in the mail)so of course your not funding terrorist Groups.

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Ahem TERRORISTS HATE EVERYONE OF A DIFFERENT RELGION look at their doctrines, they hated us for soo many reasons you can't DARE simplify it as a "oooh big bad americans made dumb mistakes during the cold war" crap and th soviet union funded rebels to are they going after Russia.........NO so that blows that theory right clean out of the water buddy.

Who's talking about the Cold War. I specifically mentioned the Taliban. Had the United States not supplied funding & weapons to Bin Laden during the 80's & 90's the 9/11 attack may not have happened.

Terrorists have no problems with other Religions, as long you don't try to impose another Religion on to them. Unfortunately the U.S. likes to go around shoving Christianity down foreign throats, and that, young man, doesn't help your Country.

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Oh and no offense to any Canadians here, I hear it's a lovley country with polite people but lets face it in the grand world scheme of things most of the 3rd world nations probobly don't know what Canada is while 99.999% of the world knows of that huge ol' country the United States.

An ignorant comment from a waste of space.

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This is going nowhere... perhaps all involved should take the night off to cool down.

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Terrorists have no problems with other Religions, as long you don't try to impose another Religion on to them. Unfortunately the U.S. likes to go around shoving Christianity down foreign throats, and that, young man, doesn't help your Country.

I would have to say I disagree with you here Katchoo on both of your statements: Islam itself have no problems with other religions, and some "islamic" "terrorist" indeed take "care" in choosing their targets, but quite frankly, you cannot expect a group of men that follow a man who wants to establish a pan-arabic islamic sheikdom that "will" destroy jews, judaism, christianity, christians, and others that walk amongst "pure muslims who must pretend tolerance but deep down hate them (those belonging to other than their brand of islam) for what they are" that was sheltered by a radical militant group that shot women on sight for showing their ankles and bazooka-ed priceless peices of human heritage because they saw it as an affront to the Quran religious tolerance.

And the US government has never, ever, imposed christianity onto other nations. American missionaries are indeed numerous in many nations, and more go abroad each day, but they do it for their own beliefs, not for some political-religious agenda. And Countries can always reject these missionaries; whether they are accepted or rejected, that is a matter for the populace of the nations that are being evangelized to decide.

Edit: I agree with Fyron. This thread is IMHO becoming degrading, in both senses of the word. Let's all take a moment to calm down and if anyone should want to restart the discussion, be civil in doing so.

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"Tried to knock it down"??? If you want to tip over a building, you take out the supports. Ever watch a controlled building demolition? You don't see Engineers toppling a building blowing it from the top floors. Terrorists are a lot of things, but stupid isn't one of them. If they were stupid they would have been caught at the Airport.

This is the first time I've heard your explanation. Sounds like more "fear propoganda" to keep Bush's base controlled & paranoid.

Well it's hard to fly a plane I'm sure and aiming it probobly also hard so stupidity doesn't have anything to do with it.....they hit mid towers NOT the upper floor if they had hit a little lower they could have knocked it over look at the way it happened. Even the engineers say that's what would have likely happened if they had hit it lower. It's hard to fly a several ton aircraft into support beams......gaw.

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So you're, what, saying that it's all right to fund terrorist Groups and start rebellions? I think it's time you put aside your copy of SE:IV and smelled the coffee.

As for knocking our currency, well, have at it all you want. Poke all the fun you want at our Military too. At the end of the day our Soldiers will still be alive (and mostly home) while your Men & Women are off getting ripped apart in Iraq. The joke's on you, and I wish it weren't.

No I'm just saying you can't judge when you couldn't do it if you wanted too so pay attention.

AND you are an insensitive *** for that other comment as if you had paid attention to what I said earlier so I won't even give you a response to that stupid comment that makes you seem like a damned fool. Especially because I was not joking your military in any way I was just saying it's small as has everyon else here so pay attention or don't comment.

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Who's talking about the Cold War. I specifically mentioned the Taliban. Had the United States not supplied funding & weapons to Bin Laden during the 80's & 90's the 9/11 attack may not have happened.

Uh....LOOK AT WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THE 80's FOOL it was coming to the closing stages OF THE DAMN COLD WAR and the Taliban was funded to DRIVE OUT SOVIET FORCSE God you don't pay attention do you?
And Bin Laden is an oil millionaire so uh he doesn't need our money.

Terrorists have no problems with other Religions, as long you don't try to impose another Religion on to them. Unfortunately the U.S. likes to go around shoving Christianity down foreign throats, and that, young man, doesn't help your Country.

Again good lord your an *** if you beleive that, damnit man these damned terrorists torture OTHER MUSLIMS OF DIFFERENT SECTS and let's not mention SERBS, Jews and anyone else that does not share their views of the Corran.

And what on EARTH are you talking about MY NATION liking to SHOVE CHRISTIANITY down everyon'es throat? If you havn't noticed my government is leaning more towards the anti-religious aspects in recent history right down to banning the ten commandments in a public place so you are a fool if you think the US is actually out their on a crusade or crap like that.

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An ignorant comment from a waste of space.

Not ignorant again pay attention to the Posts above yours and actually read on commentary made by others many of the folks here agree with what I've been saying about some national politics.

You need to read some history books my friend and when you do then I'll come back and reply to you. I mean I made mistakes but most of that was fatigue what is your excuse for not even knowing when the Cold War was going on?

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Yeah I'm sure my friend would have just loved him commenting on her boyfriend being torn apart in Iraq....that's just the mental picture she'd like in he rmind of her boyfriends Last moments.

Oh and I just love the way you basically said he died fighting in some sort of crusade....yeah she'd love you. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/mad.gif

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Imperator Fyron said:
This is going nowhere... perhaps all involved should take the night off to cool down.

Frankly I can't be bothered to hang around here any longer. This place is going downhill while waiting for the next Release.

I'll see you all after SE:V comes out.

Read ya later.