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Originally Posted by johnnyc
Good article, Raggedy makes a good point. As a note to your point Raggedy, during the Salt Lake City Olympics, whenever the Americans were out of a sport, they always cheered for the Canadians, I can't help but doubt very much that will happen to them when the Canadians are out of contention in Vancouver in 2010.
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well, Salt Lake was right after 9/11.....we loved the Americans back then, and so did they after all the assistance and moral support we gave them after that day. We even sent our troops to Afghanistan on their behalf....
...but then, their president forgot to mention Canada while thanking nations that contributed to the War in Afghanistan, forgot to thank Canada for its assistance on 9/11 (40,000 airplane passengers destined for America landed in Canada), did not apologize for a full two years for the friendly-fire deaths of our troops in Afghanistan (didn't happen for a full 3 years until Bush visited the Maritimes), blamed us for the big blackout, and then there's Iraq.
America is a very different nation today. Everybody's paranoid (it was the communists in the 50's/60's, now it's the terrorists). And it's a nation that doesn't do news anymore. What was once one of the most respected news sources in the world - CNN - is now a circus.