Shes just bitter because she cant get any.. Thats sooo obvious....

Even if you are a latent homosexual with an attraction to AC I don't see how mentioning the corrolation could be construed as a personal attack. ;)

Creature,

Please point out exactly what was so belittling. I am not getting it. I said the canadian ship was small and cute. How am I backed into a corner? Please explain. I am obviously too ignorant and mean to understand.

Aaron

BTW: Didnt you mock me and call me your "small Friend" in another of your (America sucks) posts?

Face it...lots of Canadians are also laughingstocks here...As long as Canada makes itself a haven for deserters and its citizens and govt representatives spout their anit-US sentiments...the country will never be considered by many in this country as a true ally in this or any war....in spite of the fact that some do help and serve admirably. Unlike some postings here, I do not consider canadians or any other nationality that join the US military to be a contribution from that nation...they are, after all, joining the US military because their own natioin did not provide similar opportunity to serve the same cause..probably due to political or financial considerations.

I find it odd that folks from other countries consider it their obligation to run down the US, its government, and military.....yet are so touchy when the tables turn. Seems like some sort of penile eny to me...right up there with the sexchange comments about Coulter that many make. Sheesh...you don't often see conservatives posting about liberal liars like Rather and his sexual preferences....or pointing out the obvious lack of masculinity some (unnamed) outspoken Canadians.

I suspect that more members of the US Navy died in WW2 than served in the entire Canadian military in Europe in WW2.....The foillowing is a pretty crappy statement to make...even if in response to the horrible observation that Canada had some small ships (ship envy?).

It seems pretty dubious to counter one crappy statement belittling US WW2 sacrifices with another one aimed at Canadians, even if it were correct, which it obviously isn't. :rolleyes:

371,000 Canadians served overseas. 39,300 Canadians were KIA.

Pretty sad attempt to counter my supposition...you posted two totally differnt statistics than in my statement...and implied that they are somehow the same...you should try applying for a job at CNN...you are a natural.

Although I have no idea how many of Canadian troops served in Europe, there were almost as many casualties in the US Navy as there were in total for Canadian forces. Total US troop losses were about seven times as many as Canada's and wounded in action were close to ten times as many. While my comments were not intended to denigrate the sacrifices of the Canadian forces in WW2 as you imply (only to refute the quote posted which is way off base)...the numbers clearly tell the tale regarding our navy who clearly did not hide out at Pearl Harbor while Canadians fought the war in Europe for us. It seems both made great sacrifices and contributions.

You could have fooled me.

I often wonder if you would be such a war mongerer if you actually served any combat duty instead of turning wrenches and sitting in a bunker state side for our military.

Its like you have a military version of little man syndrome.

and I am the belittiler?

I think we need to put the dems of this board on suicide watch... they all sound so angry and depressed... I'm worried about them.

You're statement is so far off base ("...more members of the US Navy died in WW2 than served in the entire Canadian military in Europe in WW2) that I didn't even think you could have believed it yourself.

http://www.legion.ca/asp/docs/about/MilHeritage_e.asp
"World War II commenced in September 1939 and by its end some six years later 237,000 men and women would have served in Northwest Europe and 97,500 in Italy"

Making up wildly incorrect statistics doesn't exactly strengthen your case, clearly you are off by a factor close to ten.
Virtually all allied countries, as far as I know, made huge sacrifices in terms of number of troops in service & casualities. :confused:

Apparently you have spent a lifetime being fooled...why should this be any different.

I wonder if you would hate the military so if you and ever spent a single second serving instead of constantly mischaracterizing the service of others. I spent almost 26 years active duty (a significant amount overseas) and almost three working for the Department of Defense. Come back and school me a bit when you learn something else from your video games or from the History channel about the time I served.

It's like you have the bedwetting liberal version of penis envy.

I love the way you edited my statement to leave off "I suspect..." so you could imply I misstated statistics. A cheap shot...even for you. You also fail to note that I did provide actual statistics later...which you totally disregarded. Apparently more US military personnel (not Navy alone) were killed or wounded in WW2 than the total number of Canadian soldiers who served in Europe...per your own post.

I never implied that you had misrepresented statistical data for your statement, just that you made numbers up out of thin air to make Canada's WW2 effort seem less consequential. I didn't assume you researched the statistics at all in the first place, let alone misstated them.

There is no way you can believe that saying Canada had less than ~40,000 troops serving in Europe ("I suspect that more members of the US Navy died in WW2 than served in the entire Canadian military in Europe in WW2..... ")

... is the same thing as saying Canada had less troops serving than the total number of all US Military personnel killed & wounded ("Apparently more US military personnel (not Navy alone) were killed or wounded in WW2 than the total number of Canadian soldiers who served in Europe...per your own post.")

The latter is a much greater number- far more than the actual ~330,000 odd Canadians that served in Europe (I imagine the total US casualties (KIA & WIA) would have numbered ~1M or more). The latter is also... true so I'll assume thats what you had in mind when typing the original post.

I have no issue with the stats you provided later- they tell the story well, but in no way back up your beliefs about the relatively tiny comitmment of Canadian forces to Europe.

"My cats breath smells like cat food...."

97.5 percent of all those using statistics make them up as they go along.

Let's all wave the flag and make statements about ourselves that can neither be proved or disproved.

The statistics are more often than not...correct-as they can be verified; it is the meaning attached to them that is flawed.

Lets just do as the folks from the left and burn the flag and manufacture statements about their president and any others that disagree with their anti-american agenda.....

OURAAAAH!! thanks, brother ;)