Canuck

  Saturday, 22 September 2001

 < 4:12:21 AM>.

Japan Today Japan News - Bush tries to calm Canada down The United States sought to smooth Canada's ruffled feathers on Friday over President George W Bush's omission of the U.S. neighbor from a list of countries he thanked for offering anti-terrorism support.

Whoops. OK, I'm of two minds here. The first thought is "hello?!" The second thought is, what the heck. No need to be insecure about it. George ain't so bright. It slipped his mind perhaps. (In the age of the teleprompter?!). All the hand-wringing is related to anxiety about whether we think the American's find fault with Chrétien's response and the fact that before all this happened dubbya seemed unaware that Canada was their biggest trading partner.