Yup, thats right, folks... according to Christopher Sands of the Center For Strategic and International Studies, the majority of Canadians weren't "good" because we didn't support sending troops to the Iraq war, or supported the idea behind the US going.
Now how did we find this out? Well, Macleans magazine (our version of Time or Newsweek) had a journalist down at the Hudson Institute, who had the privilege of listening to our (in my opinion) most buffoonish Minister in the Cabinet (even some Conservatives I know think he's not that bright), Security Minister Stockwell Day.
And how did Stockwell day get introduced by Christopher Sands? In a manner described by the reporter as revealing a bit of the lingering inside-the-beltway attitudes toward Canada, Iraq war disasters notwithstanding, and she refers to this:
"I was struck back in 2003 after doing a briefing with some people in the Administration. It had been a rough year. We were getting ready to go to Iraq. Canada-US relations were somewhat strained by that. At the end of the briefing -- which had been a little bit grim -- about how Canada and the US could work together better in this war on terror that we were facing, the person I was was briefing paused and said to me, 'Chris, where are all the good Canadians?' When he said that it broke a little bit of my heart, because I'm an American but I love the Canadians. I think what he meant by that was 'Where are the Canadians of World War I and World War II, that people understood to be... even when Europeans didn't, those allies we had come to count on.' Well, I have good news. Our speaker today is one of the good Canadians..."
What Christopher Sands is referring to of course is that Stockwell Day's Conservative Party, led by then opposition leader- now Prime Minister Stephen Harper - was the only party that supported sending troops to Iraq in support of the "coalition Of The Willing". Harper was bitterly denouncing Prime Minister Jean Chretien and the Liberals every day while this was all going on.
Now of course, you'd never ever hear a peep about that in Canada nowadays, because people like Harper and Day want Canadians to forget what they were advocating at the time. Its good people like Christopher Sands are out there though to remind us all of what people like Day and Harper were advocating. That should come handy as a good quote during the next election campaign.
I didnt know much about this Center of Strategic Studies... so I went to study up on it, and found that amongst its board members are Henry Kissinger and Brent Sowcroft.. and it was also a sponsoring organization for the Iraq Study Group.
At any rate, I just wanted to apologize to you all for being a "bad Canadian" (one of many I might add). I'm glad there are a few "good ones" left for neo-cons like Christopher Sands to laud.