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Boom Boom
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posted 29 September 2006 12:11 PM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Assert power in the Arctic, U.S. urged

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WASHINGTON — The United States Coast Guard needs two massive new polar icebreakers to assert and defend U.S. interests in the Arctic and Antarctic, including the Northwest Passage where Washington rejects Ottawa's claim of sovereignty, according to a high-level report commissioned by Congress.

Both Canada and the United States now seem ready to build and deploy military icebreakers to the same narrow, disputed and treacherously ice-clogged straits to buttress their positions.

Global warming and receding ice will spur economic activity and shipping through the Northwest Passage and "increase the need for the United States to assert a more active and influential presence in the Arctic," the document says.


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marzo
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posted 29 September 2006 12:25 PM      Profile for marzo     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The USA government has invaded Canadian Arctic territories before and their claim over the Arctic Ocean is nothing new. I had never heard of them claiming sovereignty over Antarctica, until now. Do they have to investigate the penguin population for terrorist connections?
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Boom Boom
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posted 29 September 2006 01:09 PM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I think what is new is that if the US builds a polar icebreaker specifically for the Arctic, then they will be sending a very strong message, eh?
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Noise
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posted 29 September 2006 01:12 PM      Profile for Noise     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
This'll be a bigger headbutting issue in the future, but for now it's back pages. Hate to say it, but I agree with some of the Harperites that keep trying to add a larger Canadian military presence within the arctic... Just to combat the Americans view that it belongs to them.

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Do they have to investigate the penguin population for terrorist connections?

It's not like they investigated Iraq for terrorist connections, they just made em up and starting bombing. The life a penguin might get much harder in the near future


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I think what is new is that if the US builds a polar icebreaker specifically for the Arctic, then they will be sending a very strong message, eh?

Ya, that would be a pretty strong message. I wonder if it's got Harper shaking in his booties... Canadian soveriegnty or bush-asskissing... He'll have to chose one in this event ^^

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