Posted on 08/22/2007 7:13:57 AM PDT by ckilmer
Bush denies superstate rumours
August 22, 2007
By Jon Ward - MONTEBELLO, Quebec — President Bush and the leaders of Canada and Mexico yesterday ridiculed the notion that their countries are conspiring to create a regional supergovernment similar to the European Union.
"I'm amused by the difference between what actually takes place in the meetings and by what some are trying to say takes place," said Mr. Bush, responding to concerns raised by conservative and liberal groups and some U.S. lawmakers.
"It's quite comical actually, to realize the difference between reality and what some people on TV are talking about."
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper joked that a superhighway rumored to be in the works linking the three countries could also be "interplanetary."
The two leaders and Mexican President Felipe Calderon spoke at a press conference here in a countryside resort, halfway between Ottawa and Montreal, to cap two days of meetings.
Mr. Bush said it is important for the U.S. to work with Canada and Mexico on facilitating trade while securing their borders, under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), a series of negotiations started in 2005.
Mr. Bush said the charges of a plot to form a North American Union were "political scare tactics."
"You lay out a conspiracy and then force some people to try to prove it doesn't exist. That's just the way some people operate," Mr. Bush said.
Mr. Harper said the trade talks were far more mundane than many realize, citing a morning meeting with business leaders at which one CEO complained that "the rules for jelly bean contents are different in Canada and the United States."
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Hopefully we are at stage two.
First they ignore you, THEN THEY LAUGH AT YOU, then they fight you, then you win.
Ghandi
You get the bob dole viagra award.
The Cold War was our main threat at that time. A few decades, different global dangers, and many millions of examples later that quote can be considered out of context. National security needs change and so would the ‘unnamed’ person’s response to it. Apples and oranges.
Our beloved Ronald Reagan said this November 13, 1979..
If we had the Internet back then with all the hysteria it generates, spreading lies and false rumors at the speed of light, Ronald Reagan may have never became the Greatest President of the 20th Century
Well, you’ll always have a home at KOS. It’s ate up with conspiracy nuts and Bush-haters. You should feel right at home. You guys even call him the same disparaging names. Match made in heaven.
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not really
There were quite a few Freepers callin a shrub a shrub way back in 2000.
I know what the Constitution says and I know what Georgie boy says and it seems there’s a difference.
If Congress wants him or anybody else to provide testimony, then they should provide it. Clinton was subject to the same rules.
I have no problem thinking of Canada and Mexico as “friends”. But my “friends” don’t come in my house uninvited!
They are insulting as well as evil IMO and I do not care for people who treat me like a child or a fool...and the list grows longer, adding to Hillary and Al Gore and any number of Democrats, George Bush, Brit Hume, Charles Krauthammer, Fred Barnes, etc.
I can still take him at his word, but...perhaps if he could see where his actions will take America, say in 50 or 100 years, he might not be so amused.
Unintended consequences.
Reagan made a mistake on this one.
“Gettin to the point if shrub says something, you are almost forced to believe the opposite.”
Well, you’ll always have a home at KOS. It’s ate up with conspiracy nuts and Bush-haters. You should feel right at home. You guys even call him the same disparaging names. Match made in heaven.
that’s clever.
I’m totally dispirited over this country’s rapid descent to destruction within my lifetime. I voted for Bush twice because the alternatives were unthinkable. Now all the politicians are unthinkable. I used to think such a course would eventually lead to civil war, but I now believe that due to majority apathy the country will slide into a full-blown communist dictatorship with nary a whimper.
“It’s quite comical actually, to realize the difference between reality and what some people on TV are talking about.” (GW Bush)
Mr. Bush said the charges of a plot to form a North American Union were “political scare tactics.”
“You lay out a conspiracy and then force some people to try to prove it doesn’t exist. That’s just the way some people operate,” (GW Bush)
Friends, look at those statements carefully. There is actually no denial there !! these are just shrewdly chosen words.
What we need to demand, through our Congressional representatives, is a full disclosure of the contents of the meetings.
There is no comparing what President Bush says with one of Clinton's Biggest Lies! If your comments are intended to turn Canada and Mexico into Venezuela's allies instead of our best friends, your doing the work of Hugo Chávez.
Perfect!
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