War Plan Red

One of the biggest topics running around the conspiracy theory community, Loose Change among them, is Operation Northwoods. Supposedly the fact that there was a plan concocted over 40 years ago to fake a plane shootdown (not a hijacking) is somehow connected to 9/11. This is ignoring the fact that the plan did not involved the murder of thousands of Americans and destruction of billions of dollars of property, and even then was considered so farfetched that the plan was immediately dismissed by the Kennedy Administration, who themselves were hardly strangers to adventuresome foreign policy.

But still the conspiracy theorists point to the fact that a plan was conceived as proof that it somehow would be carried out. Just because someone brainstormed faking a plane crash somehow indicates that this might be done. They have never precisely demonstrated the connection, did some neo-con in the 90s come across this plan in some dark archives, or was this purely coincidental? In any case, if the mere presence of a plan indicates a possibility of it being carried out, then what other sinister operations should we prepare for?

Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring you War Plan Red. Prepare yourselves for the invasion of Canada:

The United States government does have a plan to invade Canada. It's a 94-page document called "Joint Army and Navy Basic War Plan -- Red," with the word SECRET stamped on the cover. It's a bold plan, a bodacious plan, a step-by-step plan to invade, seize and annex our neighbor to the north. It goes like this:

First, we send a joint Army-Navy overseas force to capture the port city of Halifax, cutting the Canadians off from their British allies.

Then we seize Canadian power plants near Niagara Falls, so they freeze in the dark.

Then the U.S. Army invades on three fronts -- marching from Vermont to Lake Montreal and Quebec, charging out of North Dakota to grab the railroad center at Winnipeg, and storming out of the Midwest to capture the strategic nickel mines of Ontario.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy seizes the Great Lakes and blockades Canada's Atlantic and Pacific ports.

At that point, it's only a matter of time before we bring these Molson-swigging, maple-mongering Zamboni drivers to their knees! Or, as the official planners wrote, stating their objective in bold capital letters: "ULTIMATELY TO GAIN COMPLETE CONTROL."

As if this weren't enough proof of their devious plans, there is even a website, in the style of PNAC, pointing out their motives http://invadecanada.us/. They have a plan, they have a motive, it is only a matter of time before those evil neo-cons carry it out, eh?