As far as I know the US has sent nearly 20,000 troops to Afghanistan and Canada has sent over 2000. The US has had 341 military casualties in Afghanistan, and Canada has had 39.
Now, considering that Canada's population is just over 30 million, and US is around 300 million... percentage-wise, Canada has sent the same amount of troops and had a higher casualty rate. (I am only talking percentages)
My question is, how can some Americans say that Canadian's are sitting with our thumbs up our a**es watching the Americans do the dirty work. I am not even insinuating that Canada is doing more...
What I am asking is this:
HOW is it that Canadians have become the punchline in US military humour when we have sent and lost (percentage-wise) a comparable amount of good and brave men and women?
2006-10-26
08:43:09
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Wren
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