White House Desperation Play in CAFTA Fight

[idlisambar]

By presenting CAFTA as a counter-terrorism measure, President Bush tacitly admits that the agreement has nothing to do with free trade.

In his July 15 address at Gaston College in Dallas, North Carolina, President Bush presented the Central American Free Trade Agreement as a vital element of his anti-terrorism campaign. By doing so, he tacitly conceded a point made by The New American last June 3: The CAFTA agreement is not a free trade pact in any sense, but rather a foreign aid program for Central American governments Washington seeks to draw into a regional political bloc.

Most of Mr. Bush’s address – which in typical fashion was delivered before a carefully hand-picked partisan crowd – consisted of glad-handing and name-dropping, as the president recited the names of various industry groups who have expressed support for the CAFTA accord. (The president was just as careful to avoid mentioning the fact that nearly all members of the House from both Carolinas presently oppose CAFTA.) Various extravagant claims were offered on behalf of the supposed benefits to our economy that would accrue were the agreement to be approved by the House. But the heart of the speech swaddled the proposal in the language of strategic necessity in the "war on terror."

http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_1854.shtml

[BlueManDude]

1. god is he pathetic.