Originally posted by loggerbomb: let it be known canada is not defended by the USA. We are protected by ourselves and NATO.
As Kremit pointed out, your defense budget is almost nothing. You lived under OUR nuclear umbrella during the Cold War. Your defense budget can be nil because of us. As Kremit also pointed out, the US pretty much is NATO, so you yourself admitted that we protect you. To claim that Canada isn't defended by us is deserving of a Gold Star of Comedy.
As for the "spying". The NYT made it sound as if Bush secretly ordered the random spying of every single American. In reality, we were only monitoring inbound calls to people with known ties to al Qaeda. Several members of the House knew about it, as did Senator Jay Rockefeller, ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Commitee. And as we've now found out, they chose to publish this now because the author has a book coming out in a few months with more information on this. So yes, the left wing media machine is dictating the news cycle in order to sell books once again.
Bush should be applauded for his anti-terrorism measures.
