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Based upon what I've seen, I would say that for the War of 1812, the Founders felt that Canada was oppressed and they probably felt the same way about Canada as Rumsfeld felt about Iraq, that we would be greeted as liberators and that it would be an easy war. They were wrong, just as we were wrong in making those assumptions in 2003. Taking Canada was not the primary reason for the invasion though. It was probably a secondary reason. The primary reason was to stop the British and Canadians from giving weapons to the Native Americans, which the NA's were using to kill thousands of settlers.
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