US shows its a class act again... NOT!

[ans]

My pal Bob once asked me & my other buddy Mick to define 'irony' in as few words as possible. I said something like, 'when the actual outcome is the opposite of the expected outcome'. Mick answered 'metallic'.

[Rev9Volts]

we have the guns we have the bombs we do what we want...

[bitwhys]

LOL!



at least you're honest.



I'd rather be dealing with that than horse pucks the US Ambassador is tossing us. Its pretty obvious he's putting on a show for the folks back home.

[Rev9Volts]

i was kidding.... what country are you in?

[bitwhys]

Canukistan, thanks for asking.



I'm sorry to say this whole affair isn't going over too well up here.

[Rev9Volts]

i am sure... never heard of it here...

[bitwhys]

of course you haven't. no offense but it just makes for lousy TV and the Bush Admin doesn't even bother doing press releases on it so the mainstream press doesn't even have a sniff.



down there anyways.



up here its like deja vu all over again.



if you don't mind a "progressive" slant (which I assure you is held by AT LEAST 53% of Canadians - the number that voted for anti-FTA parties in a multi-party system back in '88 ) , here's a four pager from a few months back that adds up to "I told you so" now.



www.policyalternatives.ca...ief6_1.pdf



and don't let anyone fool you. if and when NAFTA is pulled we still have the GATT/WTO agreements to at least force Bu$hco out of hiding with if they want to try to get ugly(er).

Edited by: bitwhys at: 8/23/05 1:16

[bitwhys]

Embassy, September 14th, 2005

LETTERS



Killing NAFTA Wouldn't Kill U.S. Trade

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In his article ("Three Possible NAFTA Scenarios" Embassy Sept. 7, 2005), Professor Blank works from the assumption that the abrogation of NAFTA by definition results in the severing of trade relations altogether. I find that assumption difficult to accept at face value. Recently, proponents of NAFTA have been quick to point out that 95 per cent of our trade with the U.S. is trouble-free. I have yet to find a reasonable explanation as to why the termination of the NAFTA agreement puts what already good trade relations there are between partners at risk.



The loss of NAFTA does not create a vacuum. There are other agreements at other levels, some in official treaty form and, perhaps more importantly, as a result of defacto good trade relations at the business level. To discount the abrogation of NAFTA and the baggage that comes [with it] without taking into account all the other factors that can and do reflect the good will efforts of many of those involved seems to me to be rather alarmist.



Brian Dondo

Winnipeg, MB

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they could have at least let me second proof the thing.