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Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marcos who wrote (497)	8/29/2002 12:36:50 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

Some items for consideration. Where have you been? Who do you think manned Norad command centres in Canada since 1960? Answer: American Colonels. US army with some German "expat" assistance. Who built radar stations and manned them in Baffin Island? Answer: American Armed service personnel. Who built the Alaska Hiway through Canada? Answer US army engineers and US army personnel. With some Canadian assistance. What was the nationality of 10,000 army troops stationed in Whitehorse Yukon in 1943 to 1945? Answer: US. What was the nationality of 1500 troops and tanks training in Saskatchewan for the last 25 years or more? Answer German. What was the nationality of many of the jet pilots stationed at various military bases throughout Canada. Answer: US, and British. What were the nationalities of 10,000 air crew who trained at various bases throughout Canada and at Camp X in Missisauga. Answer: You name it. European and US. I used to live at on of these military bases for 17 or so years. I knew who my next door neighbours were and where they came from. Our Nato troops have been stationed in Cyprus, Germany, and the US. Nato troops are Nato command. No big deal all these years, so it is no heart attack now. The reason they need to do this is because the entire Canadian army, which is 1/5 of Spain's size, can only field 1500 infantry and with any sort of thing going on in Asia, or Europe that is down to a few hundred. If there is a terrorist alert or attack on Iraq, we would not have enough personnel to guard 2 airports. And we have more than 2 airports. And a few ports too. It is either hire about 50,000 more soldiers as grunts for 20 billion a year, or get the Americans semi-gratis. The US can afford to lend 3 or 4 divisions and all we have to do is feed and house them. They come complete with weapons, Nato training and they speak more or less good English. Perfect. we cannot afford to hire one division of our own. Nolo contendre. Anyway my friends in the CIA tell me that the invasion won't be for while now. EC<:-}

To: marcos who wrote (497)	8/29/2002 2:33:12 AM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

I For One Will Need A Lot More Information Than This marcos: cbc.ca And even though I am a big fan of Ret. Gen. L. Mackenzie ( the only one who had Kosovo right - including the Americans )who says basically we have let our guard down so long we couldn't handle a major terrorist attack and we would have little choice,I too am a little apprehensive at this point. We train,conduct exercises, and fight shoulder to shoulder with our Southern neighbours ( oops--Alaska -g- ), so I don't have problem at all regarding military integration on either side of the boarder.Your concerns and those of Lloyd Axworthy wrt sovereignty is another issue entirely. However, it must be noted, that it was under Mr.Axworthy's watch that the forces have been led down the slippery path to this inexcusable and embarrassing situation in the first place.So I take his rear view mirror paranoia with about as much concern as he gave the forces during his tenure. Regarding the earthquake scenario, I agree with you.Canada has sent firefighters South quite a few times over the past few years.Sheesh! It seems like every year lately, and we would expect the same in return. Up to this point, we have relied on NORAD for continental defense, but that is mostly in the Air theater, which we really don't take much notice of day to day.Our ports are visited regularly by the US Navy, and we visit theirs fairly regularly. Based on that, we shouldn't become too alarmed by seeing ground forces in the event of a catastrophe, assuming they are fully under Canadian Command at the time. Anywho, like I say, we should be allowed more information on this plan and have the opportunity to bring it to public debate. Until then, I don't have much more to offer. Maybe a few others on both sides of the boarder would like to chime in here? KC