Quote Originally Posted by Louis IV the Fat
That perhaps depends a good deal on what you expect it to state.
No noun to identify the subject - on a thread about the exit of soldiers from Iraq. Nice try big boy.

No, with paraphrasing you change the wording but not the meaning. Introduced by me was the French 'bashing', it was done by paraphrasing the statement. All I had to do was swap 'Canada' for 'France'.
Then again - its made up now isn't?

The original sentence was from a Canadian expressing my sentiment. Shame that link is now expired. You may have been surprised by reading the full post where my quote came from. It was a comment on the main article by some Canadian army guy. It is, well, not pro-war or pro-American, but highly critical of the nations that didn't go to war in Iraq. He goes on to say that, (and I'm paraphrasing again as I can not quote from the link) that whatever you may think of the Iraq war, it doesn't suit us to criticize the nations that did go to war. He says how hypocritical it is when we have never done anything for the Iraqi people, how we do nothing now, how we will still not do anything when civil war breaks out.
And what he states is his opinion - is that a bad thing?

It is far removed from some 'vehement anti-americanism that has to be spout' - it is a call for modesty and introspection by Canada, and extended to France by me.
That is fine and dandy - now all you have to do is apply introspection to all the rest of Europe.