# With friends like us, what do the UK and Canada need with enemies?

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**Created:** [August 23, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-friends-like-us-what-do-the-uk-and-canada-need-with-enemies/507433 "2009-08-23T22:56:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-friends-like-us-what-do-the-uk-and-canada-need-with-enemies/507433/13 "2009-08-24T05:39:45Z")

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> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> First came the insulting propaganda attacks on the NHS, with comments about how Stephen Hawking would be dead if he were British.
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> Now we have Senator David Vitter suggesting that he wants to [destroy part of Canada’s health care system in order to lower costs for Americans](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/vitter-destroying-canadas-prescription-drug-system-will-lower-prices-for-americans.php).
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> With friends like us, what do these countries need with enemies? Trash them? Propagandize against them? Call them names? Plot to harm them?
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> Let’s go after Australia next!
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> It was bad enough when it was just France. This is ugly behavior, folks.

Can you explain to me why Canada deserves low drug prices but we don’t?

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