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Foreign troops are foreign troops are foreign troops.

Not no, but no fricken way in hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your own troops are looking at fellow citizens when they take actions. Foreign troops are looking at widgets when they take actions.

If Bush has signed on to this, he is breathtakingly ignorant.

Folks, this is who you begged me to vote for, and I did the last time. This is why I didn’t want to and it’s why I think McCain will be even worse.

These two men just don’t get it.

The U.S. has now slid to the place that it can’t take care of it’s own business? What are we some third world hell hole?

This really angers me.

In the response to Hurricane Katrina, the Mexican Navy had a ship (ARM Papaloapan) off the coast of Mississippi, and Mexican Marines went ashore to help clean up in Biloxi and Pascagoula. They were unarmed, and carrying relief supplies, very similar to what the U.S. Navy did in Indonesia after the tsunami. There was a very specific effort to maintain the appearance of strictly humanitarian assistance, also similar to the U.S. military's overseas relief efforts. They were under the control of JTF Katrina, which means they were working for Gen Honore. We were still taking care of our own business – they were just supplying some more manpower.

That’s what this agreement is about. It’s not to set up an invasion of U.S. territory by Canadian forces, or vice versa. This is how we normally do things, only now there’s a formal, written agreement on procedure. If we need help, they’ll provide it. If they need help, we’ll provide it. Same as it’s been in the past. I understand your concerns, but this is not something to be overly worried about.