March 30, 2003

AN ANGLOSPHERE, IF YOU CAN KEEP IT:

UN should have sanctioned attacks: poll (ABC au, March 30, 2003)
A new international poll suggests the majority of people from Britain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand believe the United Nations should have supported military action against Iraq. [...]

Of those surveryed, 61 per cent of Australians said the UN should have sanctioned the action, as did 81 per cent of Americans, 66 per cent of Britons and 50 per cent of New Zealanders.


It's probably appropriate to consider Canadians to be at least honorary Francophones at this point. Posted by Orrin Judd at March 30, 2003 9:10 PM
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Honorary Francophones?



You are mixing apples and oranges (different polls) here. The majority of Canadians were insistent that any action against Saddam must be sanctioned by the UN. The Cretien government knows the results of the latest poll down to the ninth decimal place. After all, its how they govern.



However, at no time did Canada actually express a position on what the UN should actually do one way or another, except to obliquely say Saddam is "bad".



When the big boys refused to hear the squeaks of the Canadians, Canada took their ball and went home. When the Canadian public asks why Canada is no longer in the game, Cretien claims they are not sulking, they are just demonstrating Canadian soverignty.



Rebuffed by the big boys, Canada will pout using their usual smug moral superiority to ignore the fact that once again the games of adults prove too rough for their sensitive natures.

Posted by: Biased Observer at March 31, 2003 1:56 PM

BO:



My point was that they appear not to have polled Canada in their survey of the English-speaking world.

Posted by: oj at March 31, 2003 4:53 PM
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