A Fox News video clip posted on the Internet YouTube site suggesting Canadian soldiers are weak and effeminate has raised ire among Canadians.
The 5-minute clip was from a recent broadcast of the “Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld” panel show on the conservative U.S. network, Sun Media reported from Ottawa. It was in response to a Canadian general’s remark that his troops would need a year off after their combat role in the NATO mission in Afghanistan ends in 2011.
Gutfeld reported the plan with a sneer, the video shows.
“The Canadian military wants to take a breather to do some yoga, paint landscapes, run on the beach in gorgeous white capri pants,” Gutfeld said.
The segment was posted by an unidentified Canadian who titled it “How to Lose Friends and Alienate Countries,” while conservative Ottawa commentator Geoff Norquay called it “insulting and beneath contempt.” the Sun report said.
Monday, the bodies of four Canadians killed in Afghanistan Friday were flown home. Canada has lost 116 soldiers since the NATO mission began in 2002.
American nutballs think all other conservatives don’t come down to their lack of standards.
#50 ,pedro
“Ashamed of what, on calling the poster of this non-story’s bluff?”
A non-story? Well take a look at how many people have commented here. Take a look at all the Canadian news sites,is the number one topic. So it should be no surprise how quickly the Canada’s Minister of Defense responded and his response.
When you treat such offensive comments as non-stories it is tantamount to an attack on the service and sacrifice of every American and Canadian solider and veteran.
By justify this attack on Canadians soldiers only give our enemy legitimacy to attack our soldiers.
Just because it is done by a liberal poster is no excuse.
#71, Maria,
Well, I don’t understand this urge to be the “Mr. Nice Guy”. If someone calls us “Ugly Americans” – so be it.
You’re an asshole that has never served your country. Why do I say this? Because if you had you wouldn’t be trash talking other soldiers that dieing as they fight America’s war.
WOW, I am not Canadian, nor really know any Canadians, but this pissed even me off. I can’t believe that this P.O.S panel is allowed to spew this garbage. It’s people like this that give our country a horrible name and make us not the “greatest country in the universe”, but instead the laughing stock of the universe.
# 82 Mr. Fusion
You should probably get your head out of your ass before your eyes wither away and read what I posted (oh.. wipe your feces off your eyes before that)
I said the Canadians serve along with us and don’t deserve our scorn.
As for the French, I was talking about Iraq and their refusal to obey our request.
#84, Maria,
As for the French, I was talking about Iraq and their refusal to obey our request.
Yup. Still the bully asshole. Never served. Probably picked on at school by the bigger kids three grades higher but the same age. Still living half your life fighting ogres in some fantasy computer game.
The French KNEW there were no WMDs in Iraq.
#85 Mr. Fusion
Look who’s the one who started calling names? And (s)he’s the one talking about being an asshole and a bully. Oh, the irony.
As for the French, who cares what they knew or not. They enjoy our magnanimous protection under NATO; they should have joined us when we went on a mission that we righteously believed in.
#86, Maria said
I’m an asshole, I’m an asshole
Where do you get the wee asshole.
#87 Mr. Fusion
Look at #85. You brought it into the discussion. You’re the one fascinated by ‘em… Don’t assume everyone else around you shares your fetish.
@ # 33
Hahahahahahah….I thought it was funny….
Dead soldiers isn’t comedy. Santa Maria is probably the most ignorant/stupidest human being I have ever heard from.
Here is one Canadian’s reply:
http://blog.itsuccessmentor.com/2009/03/thanks-to-a-great-canadian.html