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To: 1rudeboy
do you remember if Clinton signed NAFTA?

LOL

Invincible ignorance.

112 posted on 05/09/2009 6:04:26 PM PDT by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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To: Mojave
Listen, you retard: I'm the one arguing that it makes no difference who signed NAFTA, with regard to your imaginary contention that Reagan was somehow against it.
121 posted on 05/09/2009 6:29:50 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Mojave; Toddsterpatriot; PugetSoundSoldier
Never mind Toddster, I was bored and found it myself. Looks like poor, dear Mojave was a little too quick on the trigger:

December 17, 1992: NAFTA is signed by U.S. President George H.W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
December 8, 1993: NAFTA is signed into law by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
So, we are left with two alternatives: 1. President Clinton and Congress were able to add unnegotiated (think about that for a minute) provisions to NAFTA in the space of the year that Congress was also ratifying it (this is Mojave's version of events), or 2. separate negotiations concerning the environment and whatnot occurred during the Clinton Administration beginning in 1993 until 1994 when NAFTA took effect (my version of events, based on about 30 minutes of research).

The second and more likely possibility leads us to an interesting observation: poor, dear Mojave is taking the parallel agreements/codicils/whatever that Clinton initiated, mixing them with the concluded negotiations of Reagan and Bush 41, and claiming that Reagan would not have approved of the work-product of his own Administration and the following Administration of his own Vice President.
Smileys

Anyone and everyone is welcome to pick the above apart. I'm interested in where you think I might be wrong.

135 posted on 05/09/2009 8:46:07 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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