Obama Denies He Is Planning To Invade Canada

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

U.S. Invading Canada? Obama Administration Denies It's Planning War

The Obama administration has confirmed the United States is not planning to invade Canada with help from Mexico. You read that right.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland was taking questions Tuesday when a reporter asked about why a signing ceremony between U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa wasn't open to the media, according to NBC.

Nuland responded she thought it had something to do with the Merida Initiative on organized crime, to which the journalist quipped: "This isn't some secret thing to invade Canada or something like that?"

The New York Daily News postulated the news must be a relief not only to Canadians but to fans of the TV show "South Park" who watched an American Invasion of Canada become a "bloody quagmire," in the film "Bigger, Longer & Uncut."

A U.S. war with Canada was also mocked in the John Candy film "Canadian Bacon" and a possible invasion featured on the TV show "The West Wing," with a Pentagon official confiming there are battle plans ready to go.

While the subject of a U.S. conquest has often been a source of laughter, it has a very real history.

Documents declassified in 1974 show the United States developed a secret plan to invade Canada code named "War Plan Red." Developed in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the plan was created as a strategy to deal with a potential conflict, likely a commercial one, with the then-mighty British Empire.

The United States was behind the times in planning for war since Canada had formulated a similar strategy, code named "Defense Scheme No. 1" in the early 1920s. The plan called for a rapid occupation of Seattle, Wash., Great Falls, Mont. Minneapolis, Minn. and Albany, N.Y., all as an attempt to divert American forces until help from the U.K. and other allies could arrive.

Of course, Canada and the U.S. fought a very real war starting in 1812, a conflict which the Canadian government has been giving a great deal of attention to of late. To celebrate the bicentennial anniversary of the conflict, Canada's Conservative government has released a commercial on the history of the War of 1812 as well as staging a large number of events.

For now it seems the renewed interest in the history of Canada-U.S. conflict isn't a sign of renewed hostilities. In fact, a poll taken near the end of last year found Canadians actually like President Obama more than Americans do.

Perhaps Obama can launch a one-man invasion if he loses in November.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/09/19/us-canada-invasion-obama_n_1897197.html

There certainly seems to be an awful lot of Canadian infiltrators in the US.

Edited October 25, 2012 by The Patriot

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Invade Canada. America could use the morale boost.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Canada would love it.

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Canada would love it.

Oh yeah, Canadians would greet the American invaders with this (American) song:

ooh baby I like it raw

Yeah baby I like it rawww

Oooh baby I like it raw

[Dakine10 5,452]

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Invade Canada. America could use the morale boost.

Honestly, invading Canada at this time of year is not going to boost anyone's morale. We need to wait until mid July (or spring, as the Canadians call it).

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Some parts of Canada are beautiful this time of year! Colors changing, not too cold yet. It's mid-November that it all goes to #######.

[Dakine10 5,452]

Some parts of Canada are beautiful this time of year! Colors changing, not too cold yet. It's mid-November that it all goes to #######.

I grew up in Edmonton. It's not one of those parts.

I do like Victoria at this time of year though.

[bsd058 296]

lol. Ya, the Americans wouldn't be ready for the terrain. Walking in a foot of snow isn't as easy as it sounds. Besides, you don't want to wake the beavers. That would make them angry. You wouldn't like them when their angry!

Edited October 25, 2012 by bsd058

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I don't think most parts of Canada would even realize they were part of the US now. I don't think some parts even know they are part of Canada.

[bsd058 296]

I don't think most parts of Canada would even realize they were part of the US now. I don't think some parts even know they are part of Canada.

Many Albertans would probably like Alberta to be a part of America. You can start there.

[Dakine10 5,452]

I don't think most parts of Canada would even realize they were part of the US now. I don't think some parts even know they are part of Canada.

If I forget which country I'm in, it's usually only until I see the speed limit signs change from miles per hour to kilometers.

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Many Albertans would probably like Alberta to be a part of America. You can start there.

Would they really? Would they put their votes where their mouths are? Or is that really more of an expression of frustration with Canada?

[Penny Lane 8,159]

If I forget which country I'm in, it's usually only until I see the speed limit signs change from miles per hour to kilometers.

That was not a fun adjustment for me.

My husband would tell me to slow down and I'd say "I'm only going 80, are you serious?! ... oh, wait, sorry."

[JohnR! 5,495]

Canada would love it.

We tried it in 1812 and neither side enjoyed it. The war ended with no declared victor.

[bsd058 296]

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Would they really? Would they put their votes where their mouths are? Or is that really more of an expression of frustration with Canada?

Well...it can be hard to tell sometimes. lol.

I think it's more of a frustration with Canada. I couldn't see them actually trying to become American. At one point maybe. Not now.

I would, though. Honestly. lol. Is that considered treason?

Edited October 25, 2012 by bsd058