I am absolutely fuming over stupid and disgraceful remarks by a Fox News panel’s remarks about the Canadian military and it’s role in Afghanastan. We have stretched ourselves pretty thin and have made serious commitments to Afghanastan which have cost 116 Canadian soldiers their lives.

 

Check out the following CTV News story: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090323/military_comments_090323/20090323?hub=TopStories

 

Of the fatalities among coalition troops in Afghanistan Canada is third behind only the US and Britain while another 20 other cuntries are significantly farther behind but whose sacrifice is just as important.

 

Less then 2.5% of American forces deployed in Afghanistan have died as a result of hostile action while nearly twice that percentage of Canadian troops (over 4%) have been killed as a result of hostile action.

 

Troops deployed to Afghanistan as of Dec. 2008 are as follows:

 

US – 19,950

UK – 8,745

Germany – 3,600

Canada – 2,830

 

Fox News has made a habit out of displaying the worst characteristics of tabloid journalism while accusing the rest of the media of being liberal. Frankly, in comparison to any liberal traits in other media outlets Fox is off the charts in its own bias. So what has Fox News’ response been to requests by Canadian Defence Minister Peter MacKay for an apology? Continued lampooning by the commentator’s on their blogs.

 

As for me – I think I’ll be avoiding Fox programming for awhile. In the meantime perhaps you shoudl send a few thousand e-mails to the commentator, Greg Gutfield, who is responsible for the insult – redeye@foxnews.com