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Originally Posted by Lothar5150
No a single incident you posted went to court. I am still waiting for some case law.
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If you can't retreat further, deny all evidence and stonewall. I'm done.
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Originally Posted by Lothar5150
Canadian Oil Companies are interested in continuing to sell oil for profit to the US.
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Of course we prefer to send it your way. Our oil happens to be in the transportation cost centre of the continent, uphill of America. Oil is just 25% of our energy export. We ship a lot of coal out of BC (11%) to Japan and South Korea.
Other energy exports can't go overseas; natural gas at 39%, hydropower at 20%, and nuclear power at 5%. The energy trade relationship is not so much like one of a free market as it is like that between management and an entrenched workforce: ultimately America has the power to set the price (i.e. wage), or could gradually replace (i.e. unemploy) its Canadian import, but Canada has the power to disrupt and force a settlement through American public outcry. I've talked to one Canadian politician who was very explicit: "pull the plug" were the words he used. I imagine this threat has been hinted in past bargaining with the US. We have little more choice in our energy exporting than a trade union does in who employs its members, so I don't think your general statement about interest and profit among oil traders suits the case.
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Originally Posted by Lothar5150
Don’t be foolish you are talking about a process you have no experience with.
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My forecasts of Iraq were spot on before the invasion, and they still are. Go back in the thread to consequences of the Fallujah assault, for example.
Look, I know how your nation's intelligence fails, because I know what it wants to see. Remember the yellowcake prank we played on you? Iraq just isn't something your nation views objectively anymore. Outsiders map that distorted view and sell into it, or work around it. We all have our blind spots. Maybe you see mine.
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Originally Posted by Lothar5150
Why do you think the joke Military Intelligence is a funny joke to people in the military? Do you think it is a matter of self-deprecation or maybe we know something about the nature of intelligence gathering and analysis, which makes that joke funny to us?
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I understand your problem, and appreciate you can have a good chuckle about destroying and invading a country by accident.