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.