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to secure out butter tarts. I have a plan! If we disguise them as books the Yanks will leave them alone.

   

I loved the parts where they thought that our national hero is Dudley Doright and that we'd surrender because we're all French. Vive le Canada!!! They obviously never payed attention to what we did in WW1, WW2, 1812, and the Korean War.


(Well, 1812 doesn't really count because we were still a British colony, but they did defend the British Territory of Canada. Hats off and thanks to all the soldiers who fought for this great land. )

   

Sell Maple Syrup has Oil for their war machines.

   

Why is it that the US finds the need to put its foot in other countrys, their political decisions and their morals? Its CANADA for gods sakes, their own country, let the US deal with its own problems by doing it their way and Canada will do the sam; by solving their problems the way THEY want to. It doesnt need arrogant power hungry politicians and leaders from the US to dictate to it how to run the country.

   

Lucky for us that Canada and the US have been "Friends" for a long time. Otherwise they would had invaded Canada for the Oil we export. Nothing better than getting it for free.

   

Unlikely...

For one thing, we'd not likely do anything to warrant an invasion, and if they did it anyway, their world standing would essentially drop to that of what German's was in the early 20th.

   

"Darkwater"... bunny,................. okay, I think I got it.

Who knows what kind of cultural shifts await us in the near future (preferrably of the revolutionary kind), but there's no doubting that the actions of my government has been fascistic when you get down to the meaning of the word.

But how easy can it be to draw parallels with (say) Nazi Germany when the world has changed in some frighteningly key ways. Whereas before the rich and powerful were entirely dependent on the "rabble" (as they would see it) to man their destructive war machine, now nuclear weapons and unmanned military systems can give them the same destructive capacity without so many middlemen.

End result is that no war or conflict since the end of WWII seems to have required much in the way of physical sacrifice for the general American masses (and it usually didn't last long when it did). With conflicts being fought with disproportionate manpower and technology, or through proxies, this freed up the masses to become the ideal consumers for the rich and powerful.

Generations later, this consumerism has only gotten more ingrained in the American psyche. Case in point, while the concept of a "war" against terrorism was well sold to the public, this apparently didn't warrant the sacrifice of the key source of funding for the presumed terrorists (oil). The Iraqi War and the ongoing resistance thereafter is now an afterthought to all but the servicemen, their friends and families, and concerned citizens. I guess informed citizenry must make pretty lousy consumers..... x_x

My point being, though, is that Canada is far too close to our border (and even has teams in the MLB -- GASP!! @_@) to warrant any kind of invasion without the risk of scaring the hell off all the consumers (especially if you throw in partisan action and all.... `v'). There would simply be too much of that sacriligous sacrifice to ask of the "rabble".

And even if Americans would ever become desperate enough to consider such insanity, whose to say they wouldn't just as easily turn their guns onto eachother (conservative-liberal civil war, anyone?) or against the rich and powerful themselves?

Just trying to make some sense in an insane world.... -_-'

   

all the US would gain would be r beer n a shit load of enemies...

   

Now that's a frightening concept..

a new American civil war.

   

They have to invade Canada in order to stop the Saskatchewan seal hunt.

   

With the current and ever so blatant division amongst American voters I fear for not only the United States but for all of North America. Not since the American Civil War has there been such a visible division amongst the proud American people. I fear that the next four years will determine the United States' role in the world. The current administration seems to be set on nothing more than empire building under the guise of democratizing the world. One can compare the reasoning behind this to Hitler's one race ruling Europe but this type of comparison would be wrong.

The United States has taken on the role of the worlds police force and for the last while has done it well but now it seems that the power involved in this process has gone to many American's heads. We cannot have a single power running everything and I hope and pray that four years hence cooler minds will prevail.

The United States cannot and should not persue, what can be perceived as, a Holy Crusade to rid the world of all things not American.

Canada, with all of it's natural resources, must maintain the role of peacekeeper. We, as a nation, have been shit on by many Americans and we should not allow this to continue.

   

As a concept, yes it's very frightening and perhaps one that will never be brought up except through political musings such as this.

But if such a concept can profit or benefit a ruling elite (just like it has in countless third world nations before us), then it becomes a very frightening risk of inaction and blind faith to a government.

Another key difference that I left out in my previous post is that the USA is not a homogenous society. Though inaction to injustice, theft and atrosity may, at this time, seem universal among all us Americans, I can definitely assure you that ideology is far from it. Hence, the deep divisions -- perhaps not as simplistic as those portrayed in the media, but still present and awaiting the allegorical "powder keg".

   

You guys are losing your minds. Ever heard of that children's story about Henny Penny: "The sky is falling, the sky is falling"?

On one page alone we have people suggesting the following:

a. An American invasion of Canada
b. An American Civil War
c. The descent of American government into fascism.

These comments are so juvenile they really doesn't deserve a response. But as an American it seems it is not only my duty to be "World's Policeman" but "Corrector of Canadian (and sometimes American) ignorance".

1. First of all, the divisions within Canada seem much stronger to me than within the US. The East-West conflict on culture and economics exceeds anything I have experienced in the US.

You have the "Have" provinces constantly fighting with the "Have-not" provinces about allocation of monies.

The liberal east clashing with the more-conservative west on values.

In fact, you even have referendums about separatism of Quebec from the rest of Canada which seems likely to flare up again.

I even hear about western provinces wanting to separate from the rest of Canada and take their economies with them.

Then there is the english-speaking vs. french-speaking debate that is viscious and seemingly never-ending.

How can you go on about such issues in the US when the sky may really be about to fall down on your own heads?

It is almost incomprehensible how, in your need to get your "fix" of America-bashing, you seem oblivious to the magnitude of your own problems.

2. The red state blue state crap is largely a concoction of the media hyping the story as usual. I live in a big midwestern US city and work with Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, and Independents. We joke around with each other, eat lunch together, and hang out after work drinking beer.

If there was a war brewing, I would have read about it, or heard about it.

This is all pure crap.

And 1964-D-Peace, you need to look up the definition of "fascist" before referring to your country as "fascistic ".

   

Case in point....

Wikipedia excerpt

But it's ooooooookay, we still like yooooooou.......

If there was only ONE viewpoint to everything, the world would be a very boring place.

   

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