Rest Easily, Northern Neighbours!

Cool it, Canooks. No plans at all to invade your vast snow-kissed wastelands. (If you trust America's noble baby-killing warriors, that is. And as long as the oil & gas pipelines are fueling 'Murka's desire to watch whatever's on tee vee in air-conditioned comfort, 'though that should go w/o saying.)

Dan Coats, R-Ind., was asking about how prepared the military was to act in Iraq. “Based on my previous service in the Senate and some service now, I’m totally aware that the Pentagon has a contingency plan on the shelf for just about every possible scenario, everything from nuclear war to an invasion by Canada, and everything in between,” he said, per the transcript by CQ.com.

Answered Gen. Martin E. Dempsey [C.J.C.S.]:

“Let me first assure you we do not have a plan on the shelf for the invasion of Canada. I want to make sure that our Canadian allies, who may be watching…

(CROSSTALK)

(LAUGHTER)”

The Obama administration has previously denied any secret plan to invade Canada, but this is the first public admission that it has no blueprint to be able to do so if needed.

If Dempsey is to be believed — and some Canadians have assumed that the U.S. military has just such a plan on the shelf — he is ignoring military history. The United States found cause to invade Canada in 1775 and 1812, then developed War Plan Red in the 1920s and 30s, which contemplated a potential invasion of Canada.

Saddest thing of today's news cycle? The above is about the most amusing thing encountered all day, & it happened Weds. Isn't this an election yr.? Where's the wkly. gun massacre/spree killing/murder of gummint agents? (Sorry, has to be fatal or it's water off the back of the tee vee herd & their air-conditioning.) Mere coffee can't keep me awake enough to be interested in what people bother to do, say or pretend.

Ah, something more amusing: Searched "BLM shooting" for the above link & this is suggested.