[Clo] Une réponse Canadienne aux excuses de FOX

[Raymond Hamel]

Désolé messieurs mais je n' ai que la version Anglaise

Raymond

A Canadian Repies to the FOX Apology

*Below is the letter I have sent to Greg Gutfeld of FOX network's "Redeye"**
regarding his comments on Canada's military and which I will be sending to
my local newspaper.  If you are as incensed as I am, please forward it to
others on your e-mail list; if not, or if you are satisfied with his
apology, feel free to delete it..*

Peter

Dear Mr. Gutfeld;

As a Canadian, I find your lame duck apology for your despicable comments on
Canada's military to be totally inadequate.  Perhaps you and your ignorant,
redneck audience would find the following to be just as humorous should you
care to share it with them, which I don't imagine you will.

Your comments and those of your "commentators" were not only an insult to
the men and women of the Canadian armed forces but also demonstrate once
again the appalling arrogance and ignorance of Americans such as yourself.
Let's take a quick look at American military prowess as seen from a
non-American standpoint.

Invade Canada because they have no army? You tried that back in 1812 and got
your American butts kicked.  The only significant battle that US forces won
in that war was the Battle of New Orleans which was actually fought several
weeks after a peace treaty had been signed in Europe.  And even in this
battle, your Old Hickory (was that a reference to his head) depended on the
support of a French pirate and his men who betrayed the British.  How's that
for an amusing play on Andy's nickname?

Actually, when it comes to winning wars on your own, the only one you can
lay claim to is your Civil War, which Americans of one side or the other
pretty well had to win, didn't they?  In the Revolutionary War you had the
French to help you.  In the Spanish American War, you had the local
indigenous populations to help you.  Are you finding this amusing?

You largely took a pass on World War One until it was three quarters over
and then sent only a token force most of whom saw no action before the
spring of 1918.  Canada, by contrast put 10% of its entire population in
uniform and these men were invariably given the most difficult objectives
which they always achieved, unfortunately with the loss of a full 10% of its
force - that's killed, not just wounded.  And who were your great heroes?
Eddie Rickenbacher who managed to shoot down a total of 26 enemy aircraft in
about the same amount of time that the Canadian ace, Billy Bishop, shot down
72.  Where did your guys learn to fly?  Then there was that hillbilly hick
from Bear Creek Hollow, Tennessee named Alvin York.  What the hell kind of
name is that for a soldier?  Alvin's a bloody chipmunk's name!  Am I being
funny yet?

Of course in World War Two you Americans jumped in when it had only been
going on for two years and a quarter years, but you made up for it by taking
all the credit.  Again, it was mainly the Canadian forces who took the brunt
and who were given the toughest assignments in areas like the Italian
campaign and at Normandy.  Why do we never hear anything from Hollywood
about what the Canadians achieved at Juno Beach, generally regarded by most
historians, other than Americans, as a tougher objective than Utah or even
Omaha Beaches?  Why don't you American know that the Canadian Division was
held back from entering Rome on June 6, 1944 so that Georgie Patton's ego
could be satisfied, his ego and propensity for slapping Privates being his
two most outstanding leadership qualities. Are you bozos laughing now?
"But we Americans won the War in the Pacific," I hear you saying.  Yes,
after the Australians and Chindits showed you how to defeat the Japanese at
jungle warfare.

Unfortunately, those lessons in jungle warfare seemed to have been forgotten
by the time you got to Vietnam where about the only things American troops
did were drugs and young Vietnamese women.  Isn't this just hilarious?

And now you're going to send an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan
where, given your extremely limited success in Iraq (another war you don't
seem to be capable of winning), it's just possible that the Canadian and
other lesser UN forces there may feel they would be better off without.  You
Americans are just a laugh a minute!  No wonder the rest of the world loves
you so much!

As I suggested at the outset, I doubt if this will be shared with your
audience (which, by the way, doesn't and never will include me), but if you
do, I'm sure you will all take it in the humorous vein in which it is
intended.  Excuse me now while I extract my tongue from my cheek.

Peter Salter
A justifiably proud Canadian


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Raymond Hamel
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