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Unarmed, in a hostile world
Toronto Sun ^ | 10/10/2002 | Linda Williamson

Posted on 10/11/2002 7:50:51 AM PDT by MD_Willington_1976

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Well it looks like Canada's military doesn't have a pot to piss in. The leader is a crackhead. And it looks like the liberals are on track to making Canada a 3rd world country..

I am sure glad that I had the opportunity to move to the USA, I've said it before, Canada is a socialist dictatorship that puts up a good front.

Here is the link to the CDA report, it is rather long because it is in both English & French...you know 2 official languages crap to please the Queerbeckers in Quebec

http://www.cda-cdai.ca/english-frame.htm

1 posted on 10/11/2002 7:50:51 AM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: MD_Willington_1976
Let's face it: this is the best time since 1814 for the U.S. to capture Canada. I say we do it.
2 posted on 10/11/2002 7:53:53 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: MD_Willington_1976
I don't think our elite is all that bothered that the countries of the West have essentially disarmed save for some useful occupation troops.
3 posted on 10/11/2002 7:54:47 AM PDT by junta
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To: MD_Willington_1976
"The eye-opening document makes the strongest case yet that 30 years of neglect and budget-slashing have left Canada's military dangerously dysfunctional. (This is the same group, remember, that in last year's report, pre-Sept. 11, pointed out our military investment ranks just ahead of Luxembourg's."

When are those Canucks going to figure it out? That's one of the first things that happens when you let Liberals run your country. Thirty years is a long time to be foolish!

4 posted on 10/11/2002 7:59:11 AM PDT by Destructor
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To: pabianice
Let's face it: this is the best time since 1814 for the U.S. to capture Canada. I say we do it.

Might not be a bad idea, but I think we need to capture the U.S. Senate first.

5 posted on 10/11/2002 8:05:32 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Destructor
When are those Canucks going to figure it out?

Wise people might read about Canada and say "this shouldn't be allowed to happen here in the US." Then there are the liberals. And their enablers, the greedy people with their hand out ready for your tax dollars. When will they figure it out?

6 posted on 10/11/2002 8:06:44 AM PDT by MichiganConservative
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To: MichiganConservative
That's a good question!
7 posted on 10/11/2002 8:12:22 AM PDT by Destructor
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To: pabianice
Don't you mean 1812...

http://www.rpsc.org/Library/1812/warof1812.htm
8 posted on 10/11/2002 8:27:27 AM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: MichiganConservative
Canadians should not only look at their lack of military defense, but also the right to self defense of citizens.
Canada's current gun laws are very closely crafted after the early stages of Great Britains early gun laws. Now in England, unarmed, defenseless citizens have a 55 percent chance of having a crime committed against them.

If national defense is weak, the chances of criminals or terrorist countries are much higher. If personal defense is weak, the same applies. Defense is equally a personal responsibility as well as a government responsibility. Some people will never learn until it is too late.
9 posted on 10/11/2002 8:34:10 AM PDT by o_zarkman44
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To: MD_Willington_1976
The danger isn't that the U.S. will take over Canada, the danger is what happens when the U.S. finally gets a bellyful of spilling blood to protect the interests of those who villify it, and pulls back its own military to protecting strictly its own interests. I mean very strictly - contrary to the hysterical insistence that "it's all about oil," the stakes of the U.S. with regard to domestic petroleum supplies are not particularly high in the Middle East. So we let them throw nukes at one another, so what? China wants the Spratlys? No skin off our nose.

I think that some sort of retrenchment is inevitable whether or not we get tired of the defense freeloaders, and the EU needs to be aware of this much more than Canada. The time for the buildup of regional security infrastructure is now before U.S. economic considerations make it mandatory. The U.S. cannot and will not maintain its worldwide defense expenditure in the defense of a nonexistent empire forever, and self-righteous anti-American rhetoric will not keep the barbarians from the gate.

10 posted on 10/11/2002 8:49:31 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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Do we have to take Quebec, too? Can't we just go around them?
11 posted on 10/11/2002 8:51:28 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
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To: Dark Wing
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12 posted on 10/11/2002 8:56:36 AM PDT by Thud
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Why go around? they will just surrender like their cousins in France...

They'll say something like this...

Oh l'humanité! Nous devons nous rendre ou ils prendront notre vin et fromage. N'hésitez pas à utiliser nos femmes pour votre satisfaction personnelle, mais ne prenez pas s'il vous plaît notre vin et le fromage.

(Oh the humanity ! we must surrender or they will take our wine and cheese. Feel free to use our women for your personal gratification, but please do not take our wine and cheese.)
14 posted on 10/11/2002 9:01:12 AM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: middleground
Yep...leaning more towards American though...Every time I go back up there, some one calls me a traitor...
15 posted on 10/11/2002 9:02:35 AM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: pabianice
Let's face it: this is the best time since 1814 for the U.S. to capture Canada. I say we do it.

Except Quebec. And I'm not real thrilled with the eastern provinces either. The western ones however.....

16 posted on 10/11/2002 9:03:43 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: MD_Willington_1976
Okay, go through there, but don't stop. Otherwise they will try to surrender and then we will have to put up with them forever.
17 posted on 10/11/2002 9:06:21 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
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To: MD_Willington_1976
Canada has a military? Who'd a thunk it?
18 posted on 10/11/2002 9:11:19 AM PDT by Lost Highway
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To: Billthedrill
I think the problem is that we (the US) do not want China (or Russia) creeping into Canada. For all their freeloading faults and fem French accents, the Canuks are a relatively harmless lot. So we have to, for our own sake, save their sorry asses in any such event.

It's like the hard-working brother who has to keep floating his dead beat brother money, just because the family doesn't want to have a homeless relative.

I know that keeps pissing my brother off. 8-)

19 posted on 10/11/2002 9:15:06 AM PDT by dead
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To: MD_Willington_1976
How badly have the Liberals in Ottawa decimated the Canadian Armed Forces? In 1938, the Cdn army alone had 63,000 men under arms. Plus the navy. The air force hadn't been fully formed yet. In 1945, From a population base of just over 12 million, Canada had sent a MILLION combatants into harm's way.

We had done most of the coastal mop-up, and liberated the low countries while England, Russia, and America chased the Nazi Wehrmacht back to Berlin.

We had the third largest navy on earth.

Today, as we speak, the TOTAL armed personnel in the forces (army, navy and air force combined) is less than 55,000. From a population of just over 30 million.

It's an utter disgrace.

20 posted on 10/11/2002 9:16:55 AM PDT by Don W
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