Not only are Americans totally arrogant, rude, and for the most part hated.....They seem to be totally fucking incompetent also. In Afghanistan, they killed a load of us Canadians. In fact, they have bombed the Canucks a few times now. Then, they crashed a chopper. And if that was not bad enough crashed another. And to top it all off, they start killed each other. I ask you, does this sound like a world super power to you? Or a band of bumbling idiots trying to run a half assed attempt at a country and take over the world at the same time? American does not deserve to be a world super power. Canada on the other hand, does. </rant>

John.

The hell man? You think we are trying to take control ove the wrold? George Bush told our troops to take down the flag from that flag pole in the Iraq city. Canada doesn't have anything to be called a superpower. America is smart enough to utilize a system that is the most adaptable and easiest in the world. America is a world super power because we are not afraid to do what we feel is right. And you blame two heilocopter pilots for those crashes don't you even dare put it on all America. You have no idea what your talking about. I can say you are a smart man but you are the arogant one. Your the Rooster who thinks he's cock of the flock. If we are so incompetent then why do we have the ability to knock down enemy missiles with other missiles? Why can we use lazers to knock down missiles? Why do we have the most advance military equipment known to the general public? I don't know why we strive s! o hard to help others. We aren't attacking Iraq, we are attacking Saddam and his followers. Do you know that he took two of his sones (can't spell them but they sound like this) Uday and Whosay to a prision and forced them to shoot and kill a few prisioners? Do you know that they hung men by their ankles or their wrists and droped them through plastic shreders? Do you know that the only reason why the people of Iraq never resisted to Saddam is because they feared what him and his republican guard would do to them? Why does every one hate us? John, are you such and idiot as to say we are the stupid ones who bombed the Canadians? I hate to break it to you pal but those Canadians were the stupid ones, they were in the wrong place. They were way too far a head of every one else and it just so happened they were in the hot zone which is not the place to be. I'm not trying to badmouth Canada. I never have wanted to. ! I love Canada. Its a very beautiful place. I'm trying to make you see that your accusations and stupid remarks about America are getting on my nerves. Naive people too blind to look at the reasons shouldn't be allowed the freedom we give them here.

First off I would like to point out that I never said that Canada could be a super power, mealy that they deserve to be. Secondly I feel that I ought to address your comments about the Star wars missile defense program. Being a 4-year physics student and being on a team on students who looked into the feasibility of the program, I can tell you that the Star wars program was never scientifically sound. Not to mention political suicide. I’m not sure if you know how the program was supposed to work, but I suppose I should explain it to you anyway. When an enemy missile is launched, it typically takes 30 to 60 seconds to reach altitudes where the infrared early-warning satellites can detect the hot exhaust from its engines. These satellites orbit at an altitude of 40,000 kilometres and can be kept over the same point on the earth's surface. Once two or more detect the rocket, they can crudely track it in three dimensions by stereo-viewing. However, the satellites can only see the hot exhaust from the rocket's engines, so their tracking ends abruptly when the engines shut down -- an event that typically happens in space at between 200 and 300 kilometres in altitude. The radar systems originally planned for this task operate on a very short wavelength (three centimetres at a frequency of 10 gigahertz), which allows them to identify objects to an accuracy of 10 to 15 centimetres from many thousands of kilometres away. This makes it possible to observe distinct reflections from different surfaces -- even the seams on an object as it tumbles through space. The spacing and intensity of these signals, and the way their echoes vary as the orientation of a target object changes, can in some circumstances be used to determine which object is a warhead and which a decoy. If all goes well, this information will be used to deploy one or more interceptors within about 10 minutes of an attack's being launched. The interceptors will fly to the defence, destroying their targets about 18 minutes after launch. This is all very well, but here is where the problems occur. For starters, an adversary could alter the reflections from decoys and warheads by covering surfaces and seams with wires, metal foil or radar-absorbing materials. These simple strategies would render the radar unable to reliably sort out warheads from their armadas of decoys. Compounding this problem is a simple fact: in the near vacuum of space, a feather and a rock move at the same speed, since there is no air drag to cause the lighter object to slow up relative to its heavier companion. This basic vulnerability makes it even easier for an adversary to devise decoys that will look like warheads to radar or an infrared telescope observing them from long range. What's more, an adversary would likely deploy decoys and warheads close together and in multiple clusters. Under these conditions, even if the radar could initially identify a warhead among all the decoys, it couldn't track it accurately enough to predict the relative locations of the different objects when the kill vehicle encountered them some eight minutes later. Consequently, the kill vehicle must be able to identify warheads and decoys without help from satellites, ground radars or other sensors. If it cannot perform this task, the defence cannot work. One simple way for an adversary to make discrimination impossible is to put the warhead inside a balloon and deploy it with many additional balloons of different sizes and surface coatings. The temperature of a balloon exposed to the sun can be drastically altered, as can the amount of infrared heat it radiates and reflects from the earth and sun, depending on its size and surface coating. Balloons of different dimensions and with different coatings would each look slightly different. Since there would be no way to know why this was so, there would be no way to know which balloons were empty and which contained warheads -- and discrimination by the kill vehicle's infrared telescope would be impossible. In test with the laser missile defence, when the laser beam was fired that the earth surface the beam dissipated on touching the atmospheres, it was with a higher powered laser possible to hit the missile however due to the severe loss of strength due to dissipation, the laser beam did not damage to the projectile what so ever. So in all honesty, America does not have ability you aforementioned. I am not against taking out Sadam, I am against a group of idiots taking out Sadam. The US has a blatant disregard for international law. Infact this “self-defence” (I say “self-defence” because Iraq does not stand a chance, so it’s more like murder) is totally illegal, but then.. When has America cared about the law, they can barley keep their own; for example. The Zodiac killer, who killed upwards of 15 people, are still walking free simply because they feel that they can taunt the government and police, and are not afraid of consequences. The Enron chairman that stole $100mil+ from American investors wasn't charged with anything, and is a fully-free man. With regards to the Americn pilots droping the bomb on the Canadian, do you actually have any idea what happened? Canadian Light Infantry were engaged in night live-fire training south of Kandahar at Tarnak Farms Range. While the Canadian soldiers were training, two U.S. F-16 fighter aircraft were returning from a mission over Afghanistan. As they passed south of Kandahar, the flight lead noticed what he described as fireworks coming from an area a few miles south of Kandahar. Perceiving this as surface-to-air fire directed at them, the flight asked permission from an Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft to obtain the coordinates of the site. While attempting to get the coordinates, the wingman requested permission to fire on the location with his 20mm cannon. AWACS told him to standby and later requested additional information on the SAFIRE along with directing him to hold fire. The wingman gave the information and immediately declared that he was "rolling in in self-defence." He then released a 500 pound laser-guided bomb that impacted on a Canadian firing position at the Tarnak Farms Range. Four Canadians were killed and eight wounded. All the wounded soldiers were immediately evacuated from the area for medical treatment. When the two F-16s landed, they were told they had released a bomb on friendly forces. The Canadian troops had registered and logged the fact that they where training in that area and where yet again trigger-happy. If they had have followed orders and held fire they would have saved those lives, in testimony, the AWACS told a court that had they have waited they would have been ordered not to fire on the troops. “Naive people too blind to look at the reasons shouldn't be allowed the freedom we give them here” I think you need to just shut the hell up now you arrogant little boy. You do not “give” us freedom, freedom is ours, it is a right and you need to learn that America may have lots of guns but they are dumb. Please stop emailing me with empty arguments not back up with facts.

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