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Originally Posted by Seaver
Man I didnt mean to piss off you Canadians so badly when I said you were never really a world military power.
And yeah, I know we were the last to invade Canada... but honestly that was almost 200 years ago by now... and it wasn't Canada back then... it was England :P.
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It's ok. We won, so we aren't all
that pissed off about it. And your new white house looks so pretty. =)
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Originally Posted by sob
Sounds admirable. Could you post the locations of a few Canadian hospitals?
I'd like to pass them along to a few "undocumenteds" in LA.
You don't mind, do you?
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No problem. Here:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/
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Originally Posted by Seaver
Chill out with the pissing contest buddy, the US doesnt want to invade Canada. The last time they did was 200 years ago, when we were still enemies of the crown.
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Agreed. That is one of the reasons why Canada has chosen not to build nuclear weapons, because the USA doesn't seem to be likely to invade in the short term.
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Originally Posted by Seaver
Now these are a little scewed higher for America because we front the vast majority in Afghanistan and Iraq at the moment, but you can see my point. Canadians made a concious choice, and have the ability to, spend MUCH less on the military. Why? Because they have no threats at this time by anyone who could muster any serious threat to them.
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No nation, other than the USA, is going to invade Canada.
No nation, other than Mexico, is going to invade the USA.
The American Military exists in it's current form and size to project power and policy overseas. It isn't a ministry of defence.