"The benefits of free trade would seem clear, and yet some remain oblivious to the magic and the resilience of opening more markets at precisely the moment history beckons us to take wing and realize the promise of a New World Order in which ideas and commerce are more freely exchanged through the global village. Some seem intent on sticking there collective heads in the sand."
George Bush
NAFTA 10th Anniversary Ceremony & Panel - [Bush Quote- 1:59]
3 Ex-Leaders Praise A Decade of NAFTA
"Former president George Bush yesterday did a devilish little impression of his onetime political nemesis Ross Perot, who predicted 10 years ago that free trade in North America would result in Mexico siphoning off U.S. jobs with a "a giant sucking sound."
"I remember not too fondly the reference to that 'giant sucking sound,' " Bush said in a remarkably good mimicking of the pugnacious Texas billionaire, drawing laughter from a crowd gathered at the Ronald Reagan Building on the 10th anniversary of the signing of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). "There hasn't been a giant sucking sound of jobs pulling away from the United States."
"All three former leaders, predictably cheerleaders for NAFTA, said the next step is to create a larger free-trade zone for all of the Americas, extending it from Canada to the tip of South America. What is known as the Free Trade Area of the Americas would include 34 countries and 800 million people."
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Murder and Drug Running in Montana - Wesley Phelan
"These sources say the Hi-Line area has become a major entry point for South and Central American drugs for a number of reasons. First, it is very remote and the nearby Canadian border is almost unguarded.
"PERRY: Well, Mr. Marc Racicot came up himself to try to smooth some things over. People said they had some knowledge of drug trafficking in the community, and they would tell him. But they wouldn't tell him unless I was there. But these people got cold feet. I believe now they were threatened. After a time I came to realize that Mr. Racicot wasn't the fine fellow everyone thought he was. He was protecting--in my mind, and I think others believe this now too--he was protecting certain people in Hill and Blaine counties. I kept trying to figure out why he would protect these people. He was the greatest of friends with these folks, which is no reason for a prosecutor to protect somebody. Either he was being blackmailed, or he was involved in this himself. I can't believe he hated me so much that he would allow murderers and drug traffickers and other criminals to walk free just because he didn't like me [4]."
Murder and Drug Running in Montana [Part II] - Wesley Phelan
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