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  Canadian water to the US Southwest?

  NO! In case that wasn't clear enough, NO NO NO NO NO!!!

  You made your bed, so lie in it, already. Canada's water is needed where it is, especially now that the ice is melting -- facilitating US invasion of the Northwest Passage.

  BTW, Canada has objected more than "feebly" to that; "futilely" is more like it, because the US arrogantly refuses to recognize Canadian sovereignty over its own internal waterway. That's like claiming the Mississippi River is international.

  Canadian negotiators made sure fresh water was excluded from NAFTA, but the US is already siphoning illegally from the Great Lakes in spite of the Boundary Waters Treaty (another "goddamn scrap of paper," eh?). So what's next?

  The US never gives up trying to conquer Canada, one way or another. The 800-pound guerilla/gorilla (or elephant, pace Trudeau) will just take what it wants, as usual. On Where's tomorrow's water? posted 3 years, 6 months ago 15 Responses

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  A link about the levee (from 2004)

  When the levee breaks

  "It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us." -- Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana

  New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 8, 2004.
  http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002331.html

  [And the Louisiana National Guard was in Iraq.]On Resources for news and opinion on the hurricane posted 4 years, 2 months ago 10 Responses