The Hollowness Of The Stay-Puff Marshmellow Men

ShakingInOurBoots
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Mike Duffy, CTV's highly photogenic political puff-pundit is scared.

And he blames his fear on people like Carolyn Parrish and the Iraq Invasion/Occupation naysayers.

At least that's what the Puffmaster Flash told Rafe Mair on Friday when the two were discussing the softwood lumber dispute.

Essentially, Duffy's thesis is that we have made the big bad Americans (ie. the Roving Cheneyburtonians, not the people, of course) mad which is why they are punishing us by ignoring NAFTA tribunal rulings.

And even worse, they are going to continue to rub our nose in it, willy-nilly, because we are completely powerless to meaningfully defend ourselves in any and all trade wars.

To which we respond........

Poppycrap!

Why?

Because, in case Mr. Duffy didn't know it we, Canada, and not Iraq, or Hugo Chavez, or even those good ol' boy Prince Kings from the House of Saud, are the biggest single exporter of petroleum to the U.S. of A.

Here are the numbers, by way of the US Dept of Energy:

Total Imports of Petroleum (Thousand Barrels per Day)
Country	May-05	Apr-05	YTD 2005	May-04	Jan - May 2004
CANADA	2,188	2,190	2,123	2,087	2,121
MEXICO	1,826	1,632	1,640	1,751	1,654
VENEZUELA	1,574	1,567	1,582	1,603	1,588
SAUDI ARABIA	1,526	1,494	1,573	1,519	1,417
NIGERIA	1,214	1,243	1,134	1,270	1,167
IRAQ	588	542	536	674	664

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And in these $70 a barrel days that's what we call leverage.

So, why should we be afraid of the bully boys again Mr. Duffy?

On the contrary.

We say.....

' Bring 'Em On.'

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Thanks to: Richard Cranium of the AllSpinZone for bringing these numbers to our attention in a much less tongue-in-cheek, deadly serious post on the current situation in Venezuala.
Greg at Sinister Thoughts has a good, succinct post on the cave-in of the President's Choice brand of Provincial Marshmellow Premier Men.

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