Free Trade in Colombia Equals More Drugs in America

President Bush's recent calls for "Free Trade" with Colombia is the single most destabilizing force in hemispheric affairs in the last 50 years. If you want oil at 300.00 a barrel, Brazil to never work with us again, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Venezuela to break further away from us, and Ecuador to stop working with us, and whatever benefit we have from CAFTA to fall through; by all means, working with a drug dealers government is a good idea. If you want peace and prosperity, we have to work peacefully with all the parties involved. See my post below. If it is passed, be sure that Delaware will thank you for More ILLICIT DRUGS on our streets.

It does not work for our nations benefit to try to turn Ecuador into a new Gaza strip. It works for Exxon-Mobile. A government of the people does not work to subsidize Exxon's disputes. Let Exxon fight its own fights. Never say I did not tell you so or warn you about this, I love the United States but drown out reason and look at what is going on: http://www.delawareliberal.net/2008/03/04/citigroup-solvency-hangs-by-a-thread/#comments

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Anonymous said…

You must have friends down there. I have friends from Cuba, but none further south.

You write as if you have a horse in this race.

March 4, 2008 at 4:33 PM

Anonymous said…

I want a peaceful settlement to all these issues and I read the "agreement" that reads more like a war plan, and do not want more people killed for an Exxon-mobile conglomerate who has plans to run pipelines from Simon Bolivar's home in Caracas to Tierra Del Fuego and who gives colombia "free ability to ship and transport" drugs to our port of Wilmington. Brian

March 5, 2008 at 6:49 AM

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