Writes Tom Mysiewicz:

Hearing all the justifications for an attack on Iran, many of which seem to be recycled justifications (that turned out to be sheer fantasy) for the $1 trillion war against Iraq, it just occurred to me that the same hypothetical arguments apply equally to our great neighbor to the North.

We know for a fact that, under the guise of peaceful nuclear research, Canada has the wherewithal and  technical know-how to build crude nuclear weapons and dirty bombs.  Their potential missiles are minutes away from hundreds of strategic targets in the U.S.

So Pres. Obama should not be constrained to limit his use of the “nuclear option” to Iran and North Korea.  A much closer threat deserves equal attention:

1.  Canada has large reserves of fissionable material that could be used to make nuclear weapons;
2.  Canada has large water reserves from which Deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen used in the manufacture of hydrogen fusion weapons can be obtained;
3.  Canada has economic relations with China, a known trading partner of Iran and North Korea–two members of the “Axis of Evil”;
4.  China could supply Canada with A-bomb technology as well as intermediate-range missiles capable of striking large areas of the United States, including Washington, D.C./and New York City(!).  Residents of these cities could well wake up looking at a maple-leaf-shaped mushroom cloud;
5.  Canada has a small fleet of private submarines (in an amusement park) that could be used to deliver a deadly payload to the U.S.; and,
6. Canada has large strategic reserves of oil, gas, and minerals that could be used in a prolonged war against the U.S. and that can also aid other terrorist nations.

While some pundits might say this is nonsense and fear mongering, I beg to differ.  True, the last time we really locked horns was in the late 1700s, but few know that, at this moment, ships of the Canadian Navy stealthily plow U.S. waters near our Northern border.   That’s because the belligerent Canadians provoked a brief war in 1859 through the clever use of a marauding pig —the so-called “Pig War”—and this humiliating concession was forced on the U.S.

An exchange passed down from this war shows the true nature of the Canadian.  When American Lyman Cultar defended his shooting of the Canadian pig by stating “It was eating my potatoes”  the Canadian in charge of the pig responded: “It’s up to you to keep your potatoes out of my pig.”

I say it’s time to even the score and, at the same time, prevent terrorists from getting access to valuable Canadian natural resources.  We cannot tolerate a nuclear Canada!

The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.