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BountyHunter2008 Good luck, and have fun. --BountyHunter2008 (talk) 17:36, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 02:06, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cold War

You're the one using flawed logic here — I didn't say that Canadians were in the background in the Cold War solely by virtue of Canada's more limited level of international prominence vis-à-vis the US and the USSR. I said that Canadian PMs weren't leaders in the Cold War because Canadian PMs actually took a neutral, hands-off, "staying out of it as much as possible" role. I'm not loading in assumptions about Canada's level of international influence; I'm merely describing the position that Canada actually chose to take. Brokering a peace deal between the US and the USSR is not "anti-communist" leadership; it's leadership of a type, but there's nothing anti-communist about it. It can just as easily be characterized as pro-communist, because it's not predicated on "capitalism wins, communism loses" at all. Bearcat (talk) 17:17, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]