The U.S. Congress finally passed the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) – by an unseemly close vote of 217-216 – in the wee hours of yesterday morning after personal pleas by President Bush and an awful lot of pork bartering with the people’s money. Yet the most cynical feature of this political luau was Bush trying to persuade mercurial Congressmen that they had to vote for CAFTA to protect the security interests of the U.S. and its Central American allies.
The alleged threat?
A regional conspiracy between President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and President Fidel Castro of Cuba to fund socialist insurgencies to foil Bush’s crusade for American dominion throughout the Western Hemisphere….
Please click here to read the real merits of this trade agreement and why I predicted months ago that it would become law despite valid labor and environmental concerns.
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Anonymous says
What a great blog. It’s really impressive that you can write about so many different topics with such clarity and good humour. In fact, as an Irishman, I like the way you threw cold water on the IRA with such brilliant derision. Well done.
Anonymous says
agreed. really great stuff. but if you thought cafta was a porker, how about that energy bill. and, trust me, you have no idea how corrupt this system is until you’re in the belly of this beast.