Posted on 07/09/2007 11:08:06 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
Free Trade: Congressional Democrats justify scrapping a U.S. trade pact with our best ally in the hemisphere on vague claims its government violates human rights. Last week, Colombia's people saw a different enemy.
It was couched in syrupy language, but it was as bad a blow to Colombia as any dealt by its enemies. The U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, in a statement by Democrats Nancy Pelosi, Charles Rangel and Sander Levin declared the Democratic Party would deny free trade indefinitely to 46 million Colombians over a few dozen unsolved murders of union activists in the last year.
The trade pact Colombia negotiated in good faith with the U.S. and which it needs to sustain its dramatic economic recovery from the ruins of a 44-year war must wait until Democrats arbitrarily decide they're satisfied with the violence level. This gives every anti-free trade Colombian thug an incentive to keep killing.
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It demonstrates the fundamental unseriousness of the Democrats on foreign policy: kowtowing to tinpot hams like Assad and Chavez does not make the US seem friendly - just stupid.
But these same RATS will kiss the backsides of anti-American scum like Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro!
Columbia receives BILLIONS in aid from the poorest of our citizens every year—via the drug trade.
When we complain, they complain that it is our fault for using the drugs.
‘nough said...
Fixed it.
That is the position of the FARC terrorists. It is not the position of the popular Uribe government.
I am not an automatic free-trader, but I believe trade agreements should be used to support our allies, reward our friends, and stop things like leaving no economic alternatives to drug trafficking . . . looks like another stupid move by Pelosi and Co.
Agree 100%
Me too. Nicely said!
WHO are you talking about in Colombia? The drug trade is run by Marxist narcoterrorists. Buy a whiff of cocaine, bankroll a communist, that’s the way it goes. The narcos don’t need free trade, they don’t believe in doing business legally. But the honest businesses do. Why are democrats screwing the honest businesses and making the dopers snicker? That’s what’s going on with Democrats and their harassment of Colombia. They’re helping the communist dopers.
Exactly. And some of the biggest Colombia-haters, like Bill Delahunt of Massachusetts, are Hugo Chavez’s biggest champions. There’s an exact correlation.
Democrats, again, come to the rescue of communist brutes in foreign countries and it began with the Soviets in the thirties. Treason.
Anyone in Colombia that attempts to stand up and fight back against the narco/communist terrorists is automatically branded a “right wing death squad”.
Our communists in congress support communists everywhere and fight against all who are not communist or allied to the communists.
What can conservatives do about this? I like solutions.
Colombia’s people saw a different enemy.
Dems are stabbing the best friends we have in this hemisphere in the back. They would rather see Colombia fall to FARC and then blame the President.
Columbia receives BILLIONS in aid from the poorest of our citizens every year—via the drug trade
That’s a dumb, dumb statement.
China OK?
Sorry. I'm long past thinking that Democrats' constant undermining of America's aims and allies, and their constant enabling of America's enemies and illiberal thugs in general, is due to "mistakes".
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