Russia slams new sanctions against Iran

[olp1fan]

Still is....God save the queen.

im sure we'll become enemies some point during the next 89 years

[Wild Bill]

Still is....God save the queen.

We may have gotten off to a rocky start but Canada and America have had such an outstanding history of being friends and allies that I seriously doubt if anything could shake it.

We've had disagreements of course. Brothers always do. There have been, are and will be areas of conflicting interests.

There are no other countries in the world that share such a long, undefended border. There are no other countries with such integrated economies.

There are always yammerheads that slam Uncle Sam because he's not leftwing enough for their liking. They are frustrated because theirs has always been a minority view. The true feeling of Canadians towards Americans has been shown in incidents like the American hostages in Iran during their religious revolution after the fall of the Shah being sheltered and smuggled out by Canadian embassy workers. Or even more clearly, by the people of Gander, Newfoundland who when hundreds of American commercial flights were grounded there during the 9/1/11 crisis, took the passengers into their homes to feed, shelter and even cloth them!

Show me ANY Arab country that has done the same for the displaced Palestinians! All they've ever done is give them money and ammunition for terrorism against Israel and its allies.

I think it far more likely that some day we will unite! In one of Richard Rohmer's books he made the claim that when the first Articles of Nationhood were drawn up after the American Revolution, where the formulae for defining and accepting new states were drawn up, there was a paragraph or two that specifically left a door open for Canada to join the Union, with a minimum of fuss.

I've always wondered if this was fact or fiction, particularly when Rohmer's books were always fiction based on established fact.

Perhaps one of our American members knows or can find out for us.

[WWWTT]

Hey you guys remember the Iran Contra affair?

Oliver North?

Ronald Reagan or selling missles to Iran?Anyone?

WWWTT

[Guest Derek L]

Hey you guys remember the Iran Contra affair?

Oliver North?

Ronald Reagan or selling missles to Iran?Anyone?

WWWTT

Sure do……..and arming Osama and his band of merry men to fight the Commies……..So?

[olp1fan]

We may have gotten off to a rocky start but Canada and America have had such an outstanding history of being friends and allies that I seriously doubt if anything could shake it.

We've had disagreements of course. Brothers always do. There have been, are and will be areas of conflicting interests.

There are no other countries in the world that share such a long, undefended border. There are no other countries with such integrated economies.

There are always yammerheads that slam Uncle Sam because he's not leftwing enough for their liking. They are frustrated because theirs has always been a minority view. The true feeling of Canadians towards Americans has been shown in incidents like the American hostages in Iran during their religious revolution after the fall of the Shah being sheltered and smuggled out by Canadian embassy workers. Or even more clearly, by the people of Gander, Newfoundland who when hundreds of American commercial flights were grounded there during the 9/1/11 crisis, took the passengers into their homes to feed, shelter and even cloth them!

Show me ANY Arab country that has done the same for the displaced Palestinians! All they've ever done is give them money and ammunition for terrorism against Israel and its allies.

I think it far more likely that some day we will unite! In one of Richard Rohmer's books he made the claim that when the first Articles of Nationhood were drawn up after the American Revolution, where the formulae for defining and accepting new states were drawn up, there was a paragraph or two that specifically left a door open for Canada to join the Union, with a minimum of fuss.

I've always wondered if this was fact or fiction, particularly when Rohmer's books were always fiction based on established fact.

Perhaps one of our American members knows or can find out for us.

Canada and the US were ready to wage war against each other in the 1940s if germany won the war

and I will fight to my death should the day ever come when they try to make canadaa state or form the NAU

[WWWTT]

Sure do……..and arming Osama and his band of merry men to fight the Commies……..So?

Do you?

Do you remember the part to hold the American hostoges till after the 1980 American election so Reagan can easily win?

Strong Iran/enemy=strong republican party

Weak Iran/enemy or no enemy=weak republican party

WWWTT

[Guest Derek L]

Do you?

Do you remember the part to hold the American hostoges till after the 1980 American election so Reagan can easily win?

Strong Iran/enemy=strong republican party

Weak Iran/enemy or no enemy=weak republican party

WWWTT

I certainly do, granted when Reagan won, I wasn’t even twenty………I think many more issues than the hostage crisis did in the Peanut Farmer….

[WWWTT]

I think many more issues than the hostage crisis did in the Peanut Farmer….

Oh and it was perfectly OK do negotiate with the enemy to keep your own citizens held against their will for your own personal gain?

Who side were the republicans on again?

WWWTT

[Guest Derek L]

Oh and it was perfectly OK do negotiate with the enemy to keep your own citizens held against their will for your own personal gain?

Who side were the republicans on again?

WWWTT

Who was doing the negotiations well Reagan was running for office?

[WWWTT]

Who was doing the negotiations well Reagan was running for office?

If your interested you can do a google search or maybe wikipedia can be a little more informative.

WWWTT

[Guest Derek L]

If your interested you can do a google search or maybe wikipedia can be a little more informative.

WWWTT

I’d assume Carter’s administration did………Didn’t he in turn approve Eagle Claw (which helped further Chuck Norris’s “acting career”) and resided over the majority of the negotiations?