December 28, 2003 6:16 AM

Blame Canada....

U.S. traces diseased cow to Canada

We begin bombing in five minutes.

- Ronald Reagan

We should have known, right? First we get stuck with their cold fronts, then they try to foist their bad beer off on us. Now they're trying to kill us with bad beef.

WASHINGTON -- Investigators tentatively traced the first U.S. cow with mad cow disease to Canada, which could help determine the scope of the outbreak and might even limit the economic damage to the American beef industry....

If U.S. and Canadian officials confirm that the sick cow in Washington state came from Canada, it might save the export market for the American beef industry because the United States could keep its disease-free status and continue trade.

The National Cattlemen's Beef Association in Denver said the indication that the infected cow was from Canada means U.S. trading partners should reopen their borders to American beef. The farm organization said a beef export monitoring program would allow importers to separate beef of Canadian origin if they feel additional precautions are needed.

Federal officials announced on Tuesday that tests indicated the cow, which ended up at a Washington farm in October 2001, had mad cow, a brain-wasting illness. An international laboratory in England confirmed it Thursday.

Hey, we couldn't even prove that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, and yet we still invaded. Canada's right next door and is clearly in possession of cows of mass destruction. We wouldn't even need the US Army of the Marines to invade in order to subjugate those treacherous Canucks. How about we just send the North Dakota National Guard??

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