I don't follow that first question, Sawzaw. I don't think you worded it right.

What I was saying is that there is very, very little danger to the average American from Islamic terrorism. You are far more likely to die from a traffic accident, being overweight, or through domestic violence, or by getting hit by lightning. On the other hand, there is enormous danger to ordinary Afghans, Pakistanis, Iraqis, and other Third World people from American terrorism, accomplished by the American military and the mercenary contractors like Blackwater.

You quoted Michael Moore out of context. Unless you post the larger context in which he said the few words you quoted, your quote is a waste of time. You cannot discredit everything a human being stands for on the basis of a single fragment of a sentence that you have lifted out of a whole bunch of stuff he said.

I should think you'd be interested in the fact that Micheal Moore is being extremely critical of Obama's first year in office rather than paying so much attention to a few words from him quoted out of context. You can damn anyone on the planet if you cherry pick through everything they've said and quote one tiny bit of it out of context and ignore the rest.

As for your other questions:

"Whom is the Emperor of America?" I don't know. Who do you think? Henry Kissinger? ;-) Why do you even ask me that?

"Should the US retreat from Haiti?" Not if they are there to render humanitarian assistance to earthquake victims. As long as that's what they do there, I have no argument with it.

"Do Canadians belong in Afghanistan?" Hell, no! If it were up to me, Canadian troops would be pulled out at once. A majority of the Canadian public agrees with me on that, but our Prime Minister is a neocon trained poodle in service of the American empire.

"Do they (Canadians) belong in Haiti?" I have no objection to anyone giving Haitians emergency assistance in the wake of the earthquake. Why would I?

Regarding your remarkes on the British Empire...we appear to agree on every point about the British Empire! ;-) So, what is your point? America has taken over where the British (and more recently, the Soviets) left off. America has indeed built itself a huge empire overseas ever since the late 1800s, beginning with the siezure of Cuba, the Phillipines, and other formerly Spanish possessions in 1898. You don't have to have official colonies to have an empire...you just have to have control of foreign places...militarily and financially and politically or by proxy through local puppets who have been bought or terrorized into submission. That control is achieved through a combination of military invasion or threat, coups, assassinations, puppet and client governments, financial takeovers, huge loans that control a poor nation through debt, etc. Recently Iraq and Aghanistan have been added to the unofficial tally of the American empire. It IS an empire, it just isn't called an empire anymore, because that isn't politically acceptable to do that anymore. So it isn't official. It is actual. And everyone outside the USA knows it, even if you Americans are too sold on your own propaganda to recognize it yourselves.

Our Canadian government has been helping you to maintain your empire, and that is shameful. I am disgusted with them for doing it, and I do not support them in any way when they do that.

I do not regard Haitian relief as empire-building nor would any sane person.

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Now let me ask you as intelligent a question as some of the ones you just wasted my time with:

Are you still buggering your neighbour's basset hound EVERY day...or just on Sundays?