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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

I stand corrected; our former "commander-in-chief" was quoted saying 
only that he hates our military, not our country itself.

The responsibility for any act of government lies with the legislators 
who vote for a bill, and the guy in the Oval Office who signs it.  B. C. 
was the only American elected official with the power to stop NAFTA and 
the other free trade bills.  His veto would not have been overridden, 
because they had a fairly slim majority in the House, and if there had 
been any threat of a move towards a 2/3 supermajority, he could have 
taken the crusade to the people; the NAFTA side would not have gotten 
all of the Democrat votes they got,  if he had only spoken out against 
it.  NAFTA might have died on the vine after 8 years, but there's every 
reason to believe that Gore would have been elected in 2000 if not for 
the substantial number of Florida voters who either voted for Nader or 
just turned apathetic, as a direct result of Clinton-Gore's actions 
promoting free trade.

The only option now is to tell us how good free trade will be.  I'm 
always entertained by a Clintonian speech telling us how, in the 
beautiful future, Americans won't need to pour no steel ingots, nor 
stitch up shoes like peasant women, but we'll all be rocket scientists 
and sell our fabulous movie ideas and other "intellectual commodities" 
to the Chinese.

Bill