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James Robinson wrote:

Canada, that socialist country with government-run medical care ...


Government-funded a la US Medicare (provincial health plans funded federally
similar to highway grants in the US). Doctors are private ... my friend
in Toronto
opened his third office last year.

Since 80% of the billings are to the provincial health insurance fund,
then yes
the government does have a lot of sway ...

Also, pharmacies are private. Pharmacie Jean Coutou was a third of the deal
to buy Eckard's from JC Penney today, along with CVS. That doesn't sound
like a Sovietic people's dispensary to me ... (-;

gld

Richard Steiner wrote:

I find it somewhat shocking that citizens of the US are being portrayed
as all lining up behind their leadership. That simply isn't happening.



You should search CNN.com on their polling data from the past year.
Or even on their broadcasts (notably Aaron Brown's NewsNight).
People pouring out bottles of French wine a year ago ... "freedom
fries" ... "French Laundry" in Sacramento, CA getting defaced (it's
owned by naturalized citizens from Lebanon, where they do speak
French). All those clever and witty quotes of Homer Simpson's
"cheese munching surrender monkeys".

Even now, the NYT and Washington Post articles have a tone that
Paris and Berlin need to make up with Washington ...

gld

Following up to Kid E. Poole

this is an english language ng.

Nonsense. This is a multi-lingual newsgroup. Use
whatever language you like. Or in your case, Marie,
feel free to make pedantic grammar corrections
followed by egregious grammatical errors in any
language you almost understand.

of course, silly me! :-)
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On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 00:14:48 -0700, "Gary L. Dare"
wrote:

Richard Steiner wrote:

I find it somewhat shocking that citizens of the US are being portrayed
as all lining up behind their leadership. That simply isn't happening.



You should search CNN.com on their polling data from the past year.
Or even on their broadcasts (notably Aaron Brown's NewsNight).
People pouring out bottles of French wine a year ago ... "freedom
fries" ... "French Laundry" in Sacramento, CA getting defaced (it's
owned by naturalized citizens from Lebanon, where they do speak
French). All those clever and witty quotes of Homer Simpson's
"cheese munching surrender monkeys".

Even now, the NYT and Washington Post articles have a tone that
Paris and Berlin need to make up with Washington ...

gld

Let me get this straight. Washington said we're going to invade Iraq
because of their WMDs, we want you to support us. Paris and Berlin
said, there are no WMDs, so we won't support your invasion. Washington
invaded Iraq, there were no WMDs, and now Washington wants Paris and
Berlin to make up? Americans must be falling off their chairs laughing
at their government!
--==++AJC++==--

Following up to

On what day and by what instrument did the UK inform the U.S. Gov. that
NORAID was a terrorist organization and specifically ask them to
intervene ?

You're telling me that all the US intelligence agencies are too dumb
to figure out that an organisation in their midst is giving succour to
one of the major enemies of their major ally?

that wasn't the situation, was it.
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On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 15:07:28 GMT, devil wrote:

On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 02:56:44 +0000, Chad Irby wrote:

In article , nobody
wrote:

It gives the illusion of enhancing security. Secondly, and more importantly
GET OVER IT. 9-11 was many years ago.

Two and a half is not "many."


The real distinction is between before and after the US attack on Iraq.

The day the US invaded Iraq, the "war on terrorism" was dead. The Bush
adminstration showed its true colors. It sowed the world what its real
agenda was and that the "war on terrorism" never went beyond a cheap
excuse. Crookery really.

Rather, the opposite. The US crusade agaisnt the Muslim world has palced
all of us unwillingly and unnecessarily at risk. Most of us do not see
the world in black and white. Most of us are stronlgy opposed to the Bush
crusade. Yet we end up being put in the same bag in the Muslim world
unfortunately. Only way out is to take a clear stance, as they did in
Spain.



Out of interest what is this week's explanation from Bush as to why he
invaded Iraq? We know it was nothing to do with WMDs, as everyone knew
there never were any. We know it was nothing to do with the 'war on
terror' as we all knew invading Iraq would only stimulate terrorism.
We know it was nothing to do with liberating an opressed people,
otherwise the US would have in popped in to Zimbabwe and Burma by now
to liberate the poor souls there, in both cases guaranteed to be an
easy job, and sure of a warm welcome. So what is the current
expanation for invading Iraq?
--==++AJC++==--

AJC wrote:
This point has been raised several times in the past. The US has a
very poor healthy life expectancy figure compared with other developed
countries. Top of the list of countries are usually Japan, France, and
Australia.

However, this by itself is not a reflection of the USA health care SYSTEM. The
problem with the USA health care system is it does have the "best health care
of the world" but it is only available to a relatively small percentage of the
population. The rest has dismal health care or in many cases, none at all.

Another problem is that those without insurance will not have preventative
visits to a doctor and by the time they decide to mortgage the house to see a
doctor, the required treatments costs a whole lot more because they allowed
the disease to progress much more.

In other nations, helth care may not be as "high tech" as in the small portion
of the USA, but since they do not have the extreme cases at the low end, it
significantly raises the average health of the country.

Following up to AJC

Americans must be falling off their chairs laughing
at their government!

*should* be.
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On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 08:46:09 +0100, The Reids
wrote:

Following up to AJC

Americans must be falling off their chairs laughing
at their government!

*should* be.

How can they not be, given the evidence?
--==++AJC++==--

AJC wrote:
Americans must be falling off their chairs laughing
at their government!

*should* be.

How can they not be, given the evidence?

Because they beleive the spin made by the Bush regime and the USA media as
well as the Democrats and conveniently forget what the USA's true allies had
been telling it all along.

Where the UN failed in in the security council trying to pass a resolution
calling the invasion illegal the day after it began. The USA and UK would have
vetoed it, and it could have then gone to the general assembly for general vote.

Kofi Anan could have then gone on USA TV stating categorically that the USA
has absolutely no UN mandate to invade Iraq and that because Iraq had not
attacked the USA, there were no laws that would allow a country to
pre-emptively attack another. Anan may have lost his job next time his
mandante needs to be renewed by members (where the USA has a lot of
influence), but he may have had sufficient impact to make the US media and
the democratic party turn against the Bush regime.

But right now, nothing will be done until the US elections. And unless the
democrats really start to attack the Bush regime for its lies and mistakes on
Iraq, the regime will either be re=elected, or will be thrown out without any
impeachement or legal repercussiosn for their illegal actions and lies.