in our age of stealth jets and submarines oceans dont matter much, Canada is far too underestimated, while maybe not quite up against us by them selves in an open war, the elemetn of surprise and maybe an alliance with china would shatter our world, out capital isnt all that far from the border, and its a port on the alantic ocean, if say china took europe or africa they would be perfectly poised to attack us, or if they allied with a few westren european countrys they cold easitly mount an invasion, and sure we have nukes, so do they, and depending who was sitting in office we porbably wouldnt use them and niether would they.

Rome thought thier enemys to disorganized and too weak to destroy them, and they where right, but it was when all those small disorganized armys decided rome could be sacked was when Rome fell apart, also the constant presure on those mainly germanic tribes from the huns forced them into rome, however, it was many small disjointed raiders that destroyed romes control over the known world, they didnt work together, they didnt need to. they wherent even out to conquer rome, they where there to sack it.
however i will give you that rome never realy died, it just transformed into the vatican.

now Chip, correct me if im wrong here, because its been awhile sence i bothered with history (used yo be one of my favorite studys, wonder why i ever stopped) so i might be worng on a few accounts.
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true Kur, i didnt mention the fact that a large part of Romes armys where actualy mercenaries they needed to garrision thier large tracts of land (gah!), nor the techno gap, however the US has never been largely ahead of its enemys, for the most part just a step aheadin fact, although if you look at rome i s'pose thats all it was.

and dont you think that an election year would be the perfect time for an enemy to attack us? we might ralley under the current presedent, or we may not, our collective mind might split between two close canidates who see the war only as an opritunity. it could also come to that, where america split between two leaders if the presedent where, say assassinated, or out of country when the bombs started falling, ormaybe a turck bomb killing him and the vice presedent, that would throw our country into a complete state of chaos; now i know the legal system is set up to attempt to prevent such schisms, but that dosent mean it would work, all things have a tendancy of breaking, esspecialy in the hands of idiots.
 
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Personally, I look at the chance of all other countries allying against the US with a bit of skeptisism. I do, however, believe that China will be our next competitor in cold war. And unless the US maintains a nice, big military, with lots of cool gizmos, gadgets, and soldiers to run them, China just might get the idea that it could win a shooting war. Think of it this way: you may hate the massive body-building boxer, but would you dare to slug him in the face?
 
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gaH! i never said Canada pilfered our stuff, i said they wherent a pushover, and where far too underestimated, Canada almost scares me more than China, and if Canada and Chine allied the US would be yesterdays garbage. i say its more than possible for countrys to allie against a common enemy, and even countrys who are friends with us, or allies may have a change of mnd in the future, i mean i think we realy piss off the canadian government, i mean it would only take a few well aimed missles from canada to take out  D.C. nuclear or no.
 
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anubis that will never happen

Trust me, Canadians would never EVER support creating such a state with the US.

I guarantee you more Canadians would rather join the EU than anything with America.

Canadians are violent but it'd be one hell of an uprising against any government which decides to do something like that, not to mention the fact Quebec would revolt and create their own nation.  Most Quebecers would rather die than join the US, they are the most anti-American province in Canada.


Trust me man, it wont happen, and if it does, it wont last.
 
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People!! All you are doing is creating end of the world theories. Your all in a dream world! China will never invade, Canada wont ally with China, Mexico wont invade. Lets END this. No more discussion on the United States getting invaded! It will NEVER happen. I dont care what you think, its all childsplay. No more after this. NONE.
 
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alright sparsly populated then, you know what i mean, theres in comparison to most places that arnt a desert very very very few people ther.

the US will be invaded, not now maybe, but eventualy.
 
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somebody wise (cant remember who) said something similair to this " By knowing, and understanding  history, you can predict the woes and joys of the future."
might not be exactly right, but it went something like that.
my point is and has always been that we must fall, i never said soon, i never said tomarrow, i said it could happen tomarrow, and i've alos said it could be several hundred years from now. hell in three hundred years brazil could be the worlds leading power, for all we know.
 
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I beg to differ. If you have the support of the super powers of the world, i think people will think twice before angering you and your super power friends. Vote Kerry for Diplomacy.
 
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Vote Fury for President.

It might be a vieled threat subconciously because President is not an easy job but his politics mesh with mine well enough come November I'll be putting his name down for President.

Maybe when I finish college I'll go ahead and run for City Council for a real education on politics.
 
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For some reason i was drawn to this topic once more . . .

Ah, someone mentioned the idea of slugging bush in the face, never mind
 
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you scare me. . .austrailia scrares me, i think i'll stay here, and hate bush and kerry, if clinton ran again he wouldnt win, but atleast he knew what he was doing.
 
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"Ooo big deal if Clinton had an affair, who hasn't?"

So you mean to say that wild sex outside of marriage is perfectly fine, because "everyone" does it? I, for one, have never had an affair. People who do are disgusting, and don't deserve the people that they are cheating on. The president is the moral example of the country. Maybe he doesn't want to be. Maybe he shouldn't be, depending upon one's perspective. But the fact remains that he is. And screwing some intern in the Oval Office is disrepectful to the presidency itself and to the entire country. If Clinton doesn't have the brains to figure out that boxers aren't ankle warmers, he has no business leading the country.

I'm also going to refer all of you to www.kerryquotes.com
 
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"The president is the moral example of the country. Maybe he doesn't want to be. Maybe he shouldn't be, depending upon one's perspective. But the fact remains that he is"

When the hell did that happen? I never remember looking to my president for morals. I looked to him for leadership.
 
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whatever Clinton did in his personal life is his bussiness and his alone, we have no right to push ourselves into it, i would rather have an amoral president that knew how to run a country than a shrub that shows good morals but  runs the country into the ground, and that dosent mean i like kerry, i dont, vote Fury and end the madness, or begin some. . .
 
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I'm a little teapot, short and stout. Here is my handle, here is my spout. When I see an ARC all short and stout, BOOM! I kiss him and love him all the night out! - Modified by Me, original by -anonymous