Canada Hypothetical

Can Americans relate to the average Iraqi? For argument's sake, what if Canada (don't laugh) decided to liberate us from George Bush? In Canada's view, the US has become a threatening neighbor. There are no poison gas or mass graves, but there are significant attacks on civil liberties. Canada sees the the rapid decline of US superiority in the world in hard statistics like infant mortality, life expectancy, gun violence, literacy, health care crisis, oil consumption a threat to the environment, etc. Canada's population is seen as relatively secular and accomodating in contrast to growing US religious fundamentalist fervor. Canada remembers helping all the Vietnam draft dodgers from 35 years ago trying to flee the US. They notice the articles in US media favorably comparing Canada to the US, and record thousands of US "refugees" moving north after the 2004 re-election of bush. They watch president bush on TV talking about Jesus and appointing incompetent cronies, and conclude that the US is quickly becoming a fascist dicatorship. They see the US sliding deeper into debt and they fear we may do something crazy. They feel threatened by sharing a border with a country holding tens of thousands of nuclear weapons. They demand we disarm or face retaliation. Like US alarm over Iraq attacking Kuwait, Canada is alarmed by the US invading and occupying a country that did not attack it first. Images of Abu Ghraib broadcast around the world undercuts any US pretense of a noble cause. Canada follows the US precedent of preemtive war - it figures better to attack the US while their military is pinned down in a foreign occupation, and in a weak position. Vast natural resources and economic ties parallel our desire for access to Iraq's oil - so US forests, oil rigs and coal deposits are guarded by the RCMP. Washinton DC is destroyed, occupied, and new Canadian military outposts and embassies are sprouting up everywhere. Members of your family are accidentally killed by Canadian drones targeting the wrong house of "insurgents". Now imagine how you would feel if Dudley Doowright knocked on your door and demanded (in French!) that you surrender your weapon.