An article I mentioned

This is the first of two or three semi-related posts:
I mentioned in a comment to a friends post about requirements made before Bush would speak can be found here. Yes, it's only from a source and not put out by the white house, it can not be taken as absolute fact. But considering how bad it would make Bush look, it's no surprise no one would officially say this. That being said, during his recent speech to troops in Florida, the Canadians working at the base were all given the day off and strongly hinted that they should not go to the speech even though they were technically allowed to. Bush's people said they did not want Canadians there because of his displeasure towards Canada. There also suggestions that the Canadians were all but banned from going, but these were all downplayed. This was reported in the news on tv wed night. This probably gives some credibility to the previous story about the EU parliament.

From yesterday morning when I was unable to post it

On to something else. For awhile I've been thinking of making a post about the stuff going on between Canada and the US right now, but I've been waiting to see what happens. But I'd like to point something out to those who are pro-war right now. Our official stance here may be that we don't support the war on Iraq, but we are most definitely still on board the "War on Terrorism" going on. This is important because it means we have a number of troops (some are on front lines) and some ships in the area. These people are technically participating in the war on Iraq even though our official position is no war on Iraq. This effectively means WE ARE PARTICIPATING, BUT NOT SUPPORTING THE WAR on Iraq. If we were truly, 100% not going to support and wanted to be pricks, we would then pull ALL of those troops out of the area, but we won't. Many of the soldiers in Iraq are officers and technicians, so pulling them out would cause the US problems because they are in an exchange program we have going on. Add to that, that we are presently in command of all naval forces in the area, pulling out would again, cause some trouble (also suggested that our JTF-2 troops are in Iraq). We are not doing that. We may not be helping the US in the war on Iraq, but we have been giving them support in other ways that of course, don't get the headlines and make us look bad, etc. We have an increased role in Afghanistan to free up US soldiers and equipment to help in Iraq is one example. So while my government is not giving moral support, we are supporting the war on Iraq in several other ways. So all the comments about Canadians is a tad annoying to me and why I've been waiting to post about this and more so I could try to see the end result first.