[Mr. Mojo]

I guess the Hosers are worried that television war coverage might just cut into their hockey viewing time. Come June (after the playoffs), the Canadians will be onboard ;)

[aged]

it seems that now is not the time for anything in canada. my grandfather was a canadian, i know that he is turning in his grave knowing how utterly cowardly canada is. we americans are such dunces. when will we demand that our boardering countries stand up and do their fair share in protecting our part of the world.

[Brett66]

Now is not the time for war, it looks like March 17th will be the time.

[Defender2]

We're not going to listen to another socialist regime, so Canada.....Take a HIKE!!!!(you're either with U.S. or against us and after 9/11/01, WE AIN"T TAKING ANY CR*P ANYMORE FROM ANYONE, PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Waco]

We should wait until ------- Cannucks have been wiped out by the enemy. Fill in the #s Canada. Fart n start! Put your money on the table. Put your ass on the line. Whatcha got to loose? Probably too thick to figure the #s.

[Sunshine55]

I don't remember anyone asking Canada for their stinking two cents anyway, do you?

[Paleo Conservative]

Canada owes its existence to the fact that the British army used smallpox against the Continental Army.

B. S***** C*****, A.P. U.S. History Teacher, July 2, 2002, Fills an important void Elizabeth Fenn’s Pox Americana examines the smallpox epidemic that struck North America during the American Revolution. The first half of the book examines how the Revolution facilitated the spread of smallpox, as the disease literally followed the troops from theater of operation to theater of operation, and how smallpox affected the war itself as it directly impacted the American invasion of Canada, Governor Dunmore’s attempt to arm escaped slaves in Virginia, and Cornwallis’ Southern campaign. Fenn convincingly argues that the disease did affect the course of the war and that possibly one of Washington’s most important decisions as commander of America’s revolutionary forces was to innoculate his army in 1777 through 1778. Fenn also puts forth an intriguing suggestion: the British may have embraced a policy of biological warfare when on at least two occasions, at Boston and in Virginia, the British allowed known carriers of the disease to disperse into the surrounding community. While Fenn’s evidence is circumstantial, it is convincing, especially in light of the fact that, as Fenn points out, the British had embraced a similar policy during Pontiac’s Rebellion when officials gave Amerindians blankets infected with smallpox. The second half of the work explores, in great detail, the impact smallpox had on the rest of the North American continent between 1775-1782. While the Revolution facilitated the spread of the disease on the east coast, missionary activity, inter-Amerindian warfare, and trade allowed the disease to reach epidemic proportion on the rest of the continent. Through tracing the spread of smallpox throughout the region, Fenn uncovers a continent intricately linked in a variety of ways, showing that even the most isolated sections of the continent were not necessarily safe from smallpox as complex forces carried the disease throughout the continent. Of particular interest is Fenn’s argument that guns and horses had an even larger impact on the plains culture than historians have acknowledged as it greatly aided the spread of smallpox throughout the plains and even possibly into the Pacific Northwest. Pox Americana fills a void in the historiography of the Revolution and the development of Empire in North America. While the work becomes a bit too quantitatively driven in the second part, it should serve as a wonderful foundation upon which future research on smallpox and its impact on the Revolution and North America can rest.