And this is why Canada sucks!!!

[1stdeadeye]

They are building a monument to AMerican Draft Dodgers!!!!

WTF!!!

Maybe Bill Clinton will be at the unveiling!

[SlartyBartFast]

Maybe Bill Clinton will be at the unveiling!

George Bush and Dick Cheney could join him.

The only difference between those three and the draft dodgers that fled to Canada is that the draft dodgers didn't have the money or connections to cover their cowardice by getting posts that would avoid active duty.

I agree the statue is pathetic idea.

[taylor492]

The statue and 2-day festival serve no other purpose than to spite the US. Honestly, did these draft-dodgers do any special for this Canadian city? Did they get together and start a food bank while they were there? A volunteer fire department? I doubt it.

Good Job Canada. But its not like i didnt hate Canada already. This is just fuel for the fire.
Im going to build a statue comemorating those USAF pilots who "accidentaly" dropped a bomb on those Canadian soldiers. If u can call them that.

[1stdeadeye]

Im going to build a statue comemorating those USAF pilots who "accidentaly" dropped a bomb on those Canadian soldiers. If u can call them that.

Ouch, not nice. Funny, but not nice!!!

[SlartyBartFast]

Good Job Canada. But its not like i didnt hate Canada already. This is just fuel for the fire.
Im going to build a statue comemorating those USAF pilots who "accidentaly" dropped a bomb on those Canadian soldiers. If u can call them that.

Alright, that was totally uncalled for. Hope someone kills some of your family and we'll celebrate that.

Want to have a competition of which country has the most yahoo idiots? Considering California has a bigger population than Canada, I think the US beats in shear numbers of looney bin candidates living on the left coast.

Canada, like the US is a free country. People can celebrate and build statues for whatever they want. Doesn't mean CANADA is organising it.

But even then, it's not commemorating the the draft dodgers, it's commemorating the welcoming of them by the town.

Considering Vietnam was such a SNAFU, can't say I'm not the side of the dodgers. Hell, the current American president and vice-president were all for avoiding duty by all means possible.

Now a statue of the Air National Guard welcoming scared rich American kids. There's a project.

How about we shut this thread down.

[taylor492]

Ouch, not nice. Funny, but not nice!!!

well what if you were a soldier who went to Vietnam in the place of a draft-dodger that went to Canada.

Maybe it was a little harsh...

[OysterBoy]

The statue and 2-day festival serve no other purpose than to spite the US. Honestly, did these draft-dodgers do any special for this Canadian city? Did they get together and start a food bank while they were there? A volunteer fire department? I doubt it.

Good Job Canada. But its not like i didnt hate Canada already. This is just fuel for the fire.
Im going to build a statue comemorating those USAF pilots who "accidentaly" dropped a bomb on those Canadian soldiers. If u can call them that.

Harsh dude, harsh.

Canadians in general are very honest, good people. You can't comdemn a nation for what our leaders do, and that applies to the US as well; still does not change the fact I do not like Americans, in general. Most of the American members of AO do not get on my nerves, but almost every American I've met made me want to punch myself in the groin.

The USAF comment is disgusting, thanks for confirming my doubts of Western society and its future.

[fire1811]

just offer free travel to the opening of the monument

then when all the draft dodgers go, dont let them back in the US. Let them stay with there monument


this is bad on so many levels

[SlartyBartFast]

well what if you were a soldier who went to Vietnam in the place of a draft-dodger that went to Canada.

Maybe it was a little harsh...

Nothing to do with it. Only the scummiest pieces of filth would consider celebrating the death of any innocent human being.

Your example is all the more heiinous because you suggest that some dumb trigger happy moron who can't follow orders and caused the death of good soldiers should be glorified.

If you were a soldier that went to Vietnam in the place of a draft dodger, IMO, you should have the following reactions: Pride in your own service (if it was honourable), and pride that you live a country so democratic and accepting that the dodgers were pardoned.

[Steelrat]

Harsh dude, harsh.

Canadians in general are very honest, good people. You can't comdemn a nation for what our leaders do, and that applies to the US as well; still does not change the fact I do not like Americans, in general. Most of the American members of AO do not get on my nerves, but almost every American I've met made me want to punch myself in the groin.

The USAF comment is disgusting, thanks for confirming my doubts of American society and its future.

Wow, so we are "good" Americans? You started off fine, but the commentary about not liking Americans is not needed. You want to start a cross-border argument, Im all for it.

[OysterBoy]

By American society, I suppose I should have said 'Western', as I experience the same feelings about the way things are up here too. Sorry for the mis-communication .

[SlartyBartFast]

Wow, so we are "good" Americans? You started off fine, but the commentary about not liking Americans is not needed. You want to start a cross-border argument, Im all for it.

Honestly. A thread is started that lumps Canadians into one bunch and then belittles the death of soldiers and proclaims hatred of us, and Canadians have to play nice with you?

[Steelrat]

If you want to punch yourself in the groin everytime you meet someone from "Western" society, Im guessing that makes for long and paintful days. Since you changed it from "American" to "Western" its certainly less inflamitory. *EDITED because I phrased something poorly.*

[Sooky]

I grew up 45 minutes away from Nelson, BC, and my sister went to school there. It is far from representative of the rest of the country. If you visit any of its surrounding towns, you'll see everyone is pretty normal and respectful (and probably to your liking, Conservative). But if you go to Nelson (the population is around 10,000 or so, I think. All towns in that part of BC are small), you'll find a ton of hippies on the streets, homeless in the allies, and drugs everywhere.

It's a small town with big city problems, minus the things that make small towns great. None of the surrounding towns have homeless, yet Nelson does. None of the surrounding towns have that much drugs, or gay pride festivals as Nelson does. If you go to any surrounding town with long unwashed hair, and baggy hemp clothing you'll get stared at - but in Nelson you'll fit right in. The main street is filled with unemployed hippies and coffee shops. I've stood at a crosswalk in Nelson at one time, and had someone come and ask me if I wanted to buy pot. You don't find that anywhere else.

Nelson attracts very strange people from all over North America (and if any draft dodgers came to the area, they'd be heading to Nelson). It's a small island of weirdness in beautiful southeast BC. Don't judge Canada on what Nelson does. The place is made fun of by everyone else in the Kootenays.

[Steelrat]

Honestly. A thread is started that lumps Canadians into one bunch and then belittles the death of soldiers and proclaims hatred of us, and Canadians have to play nice with you?

One guy started the thread, so that gives you a free pass to ridicule all Americans? Go to www.websters.com and look up "hypocrite."