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To: tejek who wrote (222165)	3/5/2005 8:30:37 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571207

If the missiles are incoming to the US, they might not care what the US thinks and would want us to stop any defensive action. Particularly, if the missiles have nukes. If incoming nuclear missiles are coming toward the US and we had the ability to shoot them down we would not let Canadian opinion stop us. Its not just a Bush thing or a Republican thing, few Democrats would just sit their and take a nuclear strike because the Canadians don't want us to do anything about it. And its not just an American thing. Almost other country, current or historical, would, if it found itself in that in that positition would try to shoot down the missiles with or without Canada's permission. The last thing they would want is nukes exploding over Canada. Their probably would be no nuclear explosion. The missiles would be physically destroyed, the nuclear material would not go critical. Even if it did it would probably cause less damage to Canada exploding 150 miles over Canada than exploding in the Northern US. But the real reason they made that comment is because the US ambassador to Canada threatened their sovereignty He did not such thing. He didn't say "we will take away your sovereignty. He said he thought Canada would want to be in on something that effects their sovereignty. It was an odd statement, and probably one that shouldn't have been made, but it was not a threat. Tim