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To: mitchbert
what does Canada bring to the table that benefits the US?
Potentially a couple of things, actually.

First as was posted above, lots of barren empty space for testing,
The US has plenty of open-spaces sites to test.

…as well as access to the North for forward detection
The US has many satellites that will give us plenty of early detection.

Second, backup facilities like the fall-back command facility for NORAD underneath North Bay, Ontario (there's a Canuck on the command team in Cheyenne).
The US can easily build it own fallback command facilities thousands of miles away and still on US soil.

We're also no slouch when it comes to satellite and space technology and that may come in useful.
Good, Canada can build it’s own defense, if perchance, they feel their new allies in France aren’t up to the job.

I know there are millions of great folks in Canada, and I am sure you are too. But in the last year there has been far too much anti-America sentiment, words and actions coming from Canada for it to be considered much of an American ally.

24 posted on 05/08/2003 11:41:08 AM PDT by RJL
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To: RJL
We do not need Canada to help with this. Canada should be excluded from the benefits of NMD, and included in the costs (in the form of tarifs on their gov't subsidized exports to us) as reparations for not supporting us in Iraq. Canada should also be held responsible for any debris that lands in it.
26 posted on 05/08/2003 12:28:12 PM PDT by eBelasco
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