[TexasGreg]

How are you going to feel if Candian troops are tasked with removing weapons from your homes up there, because U.S. troops were considered reluctant to do so?

WHAT Canadian troops?? There are just 64,000 active duty members of the Canadian armed forces and 27,500 in their operational reserves. That's total military, not just the Army. With an annual budget of less than $15 billion (canadian), I don't think they're much of a threat to US liberties ... if anything, this is to allow us to help THEM.

[DoughtyOne]

Greg, what you’re saying is a credible logical comment.

Let me ask you this. Do you think 2,000 armed troops going door to door in our cities would be a problem?

Let’s look at it another way. If Canadian troops are approved to come over our border, why not Mexican troops? Why not U.N. troops?

I look at this in terms of incrementalism.

Do I care if we help out Canada? No I don’t. I also don’t see why this had to be a reciprocal agreement if that’s all we wanted to accomplish.

Canada should have said, “You know, we’d love to have your help if something catastrophic were to happen.” We would have said, “You know we’ll always have your back.” That could have been the end of it.

Instead we have an agreement for each nation’s troops to enter the other nation. I don’t like it one bit.

It could serve as an end run around posse comitatus (sp?).