Re: Are you saying it is not true
You have the balls to sign on as Osama, You are a sad attentiion seeking sole arn't you. TOO bad you are as ignorant as you are insulent!
>*** This, from a Canadian newspaper, no less, is worth sharing.
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>***** America: The Good Neighbor.
>***** Widespread but only partial news coverage was given
>***** recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from
>***** Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television
>***** commentator. What follows is the full text of his
>***** trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional
>***** Record:
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>***** "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the
>***** Americans as the most generous and possibly the least
>***** appreciated people on all the earth.
>***** Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and
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>**** Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the
>**** Americans who poured in billions of dollars and
>**** forgave other billions in debts. None of these
>**** countries is today paying even the interest on its
>***** remaining debts to the United States.
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>***** When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it
>***** was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward
>***** was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of
>***** Paris. I was there. I saw it.
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>**** When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United
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>***** States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59
>***** American communities were flattened by tornadoes.
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>***** Nobody helped.
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>***** The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped
>***** billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now
>***** newspapers in those countries are writing about the
>***** decadent, warmongering Americans.
>
>***** I'd like to see just one of those countries that is
>***** gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar
>***** build its own airplane. Does any other country in the
>***** world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the
>***** Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why
>***** don't they fly them? Why do all the International
>***** lines except Russia fly American Planes?
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>***** Why does no other land on earth even consider putting
>***** a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese
>***** technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German
>***** technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about
>***** American technocracy, and you find men on the moon -
>***** not once, but several times and safely home again.
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>***** You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs
>***** right in the store window for everybody to look at.
>***** Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded.
>***** They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless
>***** they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American
>***** dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
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>***** When the railways of France, Germany and India were
>***** breaking down through age, it was the Americans who
>***** rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the
>***** New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an
>***** old caboose. Both are still broke.
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>***** I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to
>***** the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me
>***** even one time when someone else raced to the Americans
>***** in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even
>***** during the San Francisco earthquake.
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>***** Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one
>***** Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get
>***** kicked around. They will come out of this thing with
>***** their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled
>***** to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating
>***** over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one
>***** of those."
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>***** Stand proud, America!
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