[Professor S]

Wow, glad to see some people come and get my back while I was at work. Maybe the ignorant left-wing catch phrase sprewers don't run this board after all.

Most of the points have been well said, so I'll just comment on one point...

Typhoid, your comments about nukes are pretty much without any form of historical perspective and are based on the same principles as you argument against war. "War is Bad" so therefore "Nukes are Bad". You also commented on how you're glad that Canada doesn't have any nukes.

There is a difference between "evil" and a "necessary evil". I'll explain what I mean since you seem to have a hard time absorbing a lot of the information we've shared on this thread:

No one is glad that there are thousands of Nukes in the world, but you also have to remember that they weren't just made because the US felt like have a world ending arsenal on hand. At the end of WW2 Russia was an "ally" but a very dubious one at that. Stalin killed more peopel than Hitler ever did and ran his country with an iron fist, but for the purposes of the war he was necessary to do business with. After the war ended relations immediately went in the crapper because Russia decided to keep much of the land that they had driven over on the way to Berlin.

Russia then developed Nukes and showed itself to be expansionist both militarily and politically. All eyes were on Alaska for a long time (thats right next to Canada, right?) This was the start of the Cold War, which in the early years was a VERY scary time in the world. My parents remember driving into Philly during the Cuban Missile Crisis because they wanted to die immediately if we were nuked by Russia, and not suffer the fallout. Thousands of shelters were built and there were instructional films shown IN SCHOOLS that told you what to do in the case of a nuclear attack.

THATS how close we came during Kennedy's tenure and thats what caused nuclear proliferation.

It wasn't until the Reagan administration came up with the brilliant idea of bankrupting the USSR to finally end the Cold War that Americans truly felt at ease. But unfortunately we were left with the stockpiles remaining after the Cold War ended from the MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) philosophy of avoiding a shooting war. And by the way, Nukes are being torn apart by the US, and no new ones are being made. But if you were to listen to liars and propoganda artists like Michael Moore you would never know that.

But as a Canadian you should be GLAD that the US had all of those nuclear weapons at that time. We had them so wouldn't have to. The US being your neighbor kept your country safe for 40 some years from USSR attack, and YES you would have been the first to go down because you would have been in the way of them getting at US. In fact, Canada would have been the battlefield of one of the most brutal wars in history if America decided to not stockpile weapons like Russia did.

Just keep that in mind.