More powerful American tug takes over towing of stricken Canadian sub

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/cpress/20041009/ca_pr_on_na/submarine_in_trouble ^

[Democrap]

Be a fleet of one Join the Canadian Navy.

[luvbach1]

Sorry Canucks got victimized by unscrupulous used sub dealer. sold them a junker.

[flashbunny]

candadian military unable to do anything under its own power, must be pulled along by the more powerful US.

[Dont Mention the War]

The Americans had to come in to save the Canadians? You don't say!

[1rudeboy]

This is a good time for me to put in a plug for Grey Seas Under, a book that chronicles the activities of a deep-sea salvage tug. Fantastic read.

[Guillermo]

I sure hope we send them a bill...

[Trueblackman]

LOL that was a zanker for the day!

[NewJerseyJoe]

> More powerful American tug takes over towing of stricken Canadian sub

Once again, the U.S. does the heavy lifting for Canada.

Seriously... if the situation were reversed, do you think the Canadians would come to our assistance? They'd probably conditionally require that we leave Iraq first.

[SittinYonder]

That's got to be embarrassing for those north of the border, particularly considering the disdain they've shown for Americans lately.

[theFIRMbss]

"The submarine support vessel MV Carolyn Chouest, under
charter by the Navy's Military Sealift Command,
is joining the Navy ships involved in the search and
recovery operations at the crash scene of EgyptAir Flight 990"

[bert]

The word on the street is they tried to light off the boilers not realizing it was diesel and didn't need steam.

[SoDak]

What do I have to do to get you into a sub today? Did I mention our no money down, 90 days same as cash deal? Another country has been looking at this one, but I like you, and I'd rather see you in it.

[LeoWindhorse]

Now THAT'S a tug......

[luvbach1]

Canucks should have walked out. The dealer would have chased them with his real "final offer." This does work with cars.

[HannaUSA]

AGAIN. The USA to the rescue again. Anyone taking bets on how much thanks we will get for it??

[VOA]

do these good men a favor:
tow them to a US sub base and offer them US citizenship and a commission in a real Navy.

Just like we should have done with the great Canadian snipers that got abused by their own...

[BallyBill]

This what happens when your government diverts all of the military funds to a socialist health care program!!

[luvbach1]

Approximately 40% of Canadians would thank us.

[blake6900]

This is funny. Those pukes in Canada don't mind dealing with us "morons" when they need something. They've been living under our umbrella of defense forever. I'm surprised they even bothered to buy subs, broken down or otherwise.