Canadian general defended US on 9/11?

[fryguy]

Is it me, or did chimp admit that he and his croanies did nothing useful on 9/11 when, while speaking in Canado, he said:

"On September 11th, it was a Canadian general, holding the chair at NORAD, who gave the order to initiate our defenses,"

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/bush

So maybe we should have a Canadian in the White House....

[imenja]

1. He was too busy reading My Pet Goat

Get your priorities straight. Geez.

[Inland]

2. Decision-making function outsourced

[Spazito]

3. The command has always rotated between US and Canada...

and has for years. Given NORAD has been a shared responsibility since 1958, I would hardly call it outsourcing.

Here is a link to NORAD for more information on the SHARED responsibility:

http://www.norad.mil/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.welcome

[fryguy]

4. since you seem to know about the Canadian millitary....

maybe you can confirm/correct something for me....

a while ago, when I was working in DC, I shared an office with a US Army Officer from the armored cavalry. He once told me that the German army comes to Canada to train and, because it got so expense and difficult to transport their tanks across the ocean each time they came, they now (or then) left them stored in Canada for the next group that came over. Because of this, according to him, there were more German tanks and artillery pieces in Canada at any given time then there are (were) Canadian. Any truth to that that you know of?

Just wondering....

[Spazito]

5. I have no idea, to be honest. I do know that the US trains here...

with our armed forces as do ours go to the States for joint exercises but am unaware what equipment they or Germans would bring with them. It would not be out of the realm of possibility for what you heard to be the truth, imo.