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re: Well, that explains it.

McFly — 5/23/2007 6:02:16 PM (archived)

The "bedroom nations" didn't have to worry about the Soviets. Someone else was carrying the load for them.

Nonsense. The only danger to Canada came not directly from the Soviets, but from the possibility of getting caught between two belligerent giants.

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  - re: The Dawn was Bleak... - Lindy - 5/25/2007 1:09:13 AM
  - MODS Belongs on Off Topic or Flame (n/t) - Lindy - 5/23/2007 11:51:20 PM
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      - re: Be my guest... - Lindy - 5/24/2007 12:22:40 AM
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- Well........ - Lindy - 5/23/2007 4:34:06 PM
  - I could ask you the same question I asked Bowser... - TB - 5/23/2007 4:39:48 PM
    - Now of course if Iran sneaks people into the US. - Bowser - 5/23/2007 11:13:37 PM
      - Ah, the equivalence bit again. (n/t) - TB - 5/24/2007 1:35:27 AM
        
        Anything else is sociopathic. . - Bowser - 5/24/2007 5:25:33 AM
        
        It's all about perspective. - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/24/2007 7:00:35 PM
    - Communism under Reagan - Lindy - 5/23/2007 4:54:08 PM
      - re: Communism under Reagan. Communism wasn't just under Reagan... Kennedy. - Marcia - 5/24/2007 12:38:09 AM
        
        Familiar debate - Lindy - 5/24/2007 1:10:45 AM
      - Well, that explains it. - TB - 5/23/2007 5:02:35 PM
        
        re: Well, that explains it. - McFly - 5/23/2007 6:02:16 PM
        
        No danger - TB - 5/24/2007 1:29:24 AM
        
        LOL - FrankC - 5/23/2007 9:03:24 PM
        
        re: Well, that explains it. - REB - 5/23/2007 6:06:58 PM
        
        US fantasies - Raoul - 5/23/2007 7:26:23 PM
        
        Tell that to the dead Hungarians, Lithuanians, Poles... - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/23/2007 11:32:50 PM
        
        QUICK! Anyone got any pictures of dead Indians?? (n/t) - Lindy - 5/23/2007 11:46:08 PM
        
        Now there's a stain on America - FrankC - 5/23/2007 11:53:24 PM
        
        Go ahead... - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/23/2007 11:53:04 PM
        
        European fantasies - REB - 5/23/2007 8:13:42 PM
        
        Hypothesis - Raoul - 5/23/2007 8:46:09 PM
        
        re: Hypothesis - REB - 5/23/2007 9:43:16 PM
        
        Raoul, you're trying to reason with the irrational. - Bowser - 5/23/2007 9:25:11 PM
        
        Who is being irrational? - REB - 5/23/2007 10:07:57 PM
        
        Don't worry REB - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/24/2007 12:08:58 AM
        
        re: Hypothesis - FrankC - 5/23/2007 9:24:44 PM
        
        It's not contempt, Frank - McFly - 5/23/2007 10:19:56 PM
        
        Well.. - FrankC - 5/23/2007 11:34:34 PM
        
        On this we can agree - McFly - 5/24/2007 12:28:33 AM
        
        re: On this we can agree - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/24/2007 12:51:32 AM
        
        Dear gawd, SDAI - McFly - 5/24/2007 1:32:19 AM
        
        Au contraire! - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/24/2007 1:48:11 AM
        
        re: Hypothesis - REB - 5/23/2007 9:52:11 PM
        
        Blame yourself - Raoul - 5/24/2007 5:45:27 AM
        
        Russia was never a threat to Canada - Lindy - 5/23/2007 6:15:06 PM
        
        Because the US was there. - REB - 5/23/2007 6:23:42 PM
        
        Canada protected her borders just fine - Lindy - 5/23/2007 6:39:36 PM
        
        Because the US was there to keep the USSR military from coming across the Bering Strait - REB - 5/23/2007 7:06:17 PM
        
        Maybe the USSR never had intentions to conquer territory. - Fox - 5/25/2007 6:05:24 PM
        
        re: Maybe the USSR never had intentions to conquer territory. - Lindy - 5/25/2007 7:50:11 PM
        
        Some good maps. - REB - 5/25/2007 8:28:44 PM
        
        Some really good maps on that site. If you like history and maps, you'll like that site. - REB - 5/25/2007 8:40:56 PM
        
        Also found this on that site. - REB - 5/25/2007 8:51:55 PM
        
        re: Maybe the USSR never had intentions to conquer territory. - REB - 5/25/2007 8:23:13 PM
        
        "And then we saw Communism spreading across the globe over the decades." - Lindy - 5/25/2007 9:57:17 PM
        
        "the spread of Americanism" - TB - 5/26/2007 6:09:36 AM
        
        "McDonalds and the gulag as moral equivalents?" - Lindy - 5/26/2007 2:30:36 PM
        
        re: "McDonalds and the gulag as moral equivalents?" - TB - 5/26/2007 5:04:30 PM
        
        Maybe - REB - 5/25/2007 6:32:06 PM
        
        "What would have happened to communism had the USSR achieved its goal of taking over the world?" - Lindy - 5/25/2007 7:53:42 PM
        
        I fear conflicts will get worse unless... - REB - 5/25/2007 8:07:45 PM
- At a time when America wants peace, Bush escalates. (n/t) - Bowser - 5/23/2007 3:38:00 PM
  - "Escalates?" - TB - 5/23/2007 4:35:16 PM
    - re: "Escalates?" - Lindy - 5/23/2007 4:44:55 PM
      - "I don't suppose the US doesn't want to take the problem to the UN." - TB - 5/23/2007 5:04:27 PM
        
        TB - Lindy - 5/23/2007 6:17:18 PM

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