A word of warning in regards to free trade with the USA... Canada has taken
them to the world court on several occasions and won rulings against them...
which they have refused to honour let alone obey. In short they have
repeatedly proved that their word means nothing and that they are as
trustworthy as an Arab salesman.

If at all possible do not engage in a FTA with the USA... they are known
to consistently fail to live up to their word and undertake lying as a
matter of general practice. The entire country is morally bankrupt and it's
citizens are blinded to outside opinion by their own media.

CM

"Peter Wiley" wrote in message
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| On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:46:11 +1000, Oz1
| wrote:
|
| On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 00:25:09 GMT, "jlrogers" wrote:
|
| No, you don't get it. Our government manufactured nothing. At worst
| they didn't look too closely at some evidence presented by sworn
| witnesses.
|
| Oh really! Lets see now what was the name of that little girly that
| was shot and beaten by her Iraqi captors after firing at them to evade
| capture? You know the same little girly who the Iraqi doctors tried to
| hand back but weren't able to because the troops were too scared to
| let them close enough.
|
| hey can also be accused of assuming the worst case
| scenario. Which is the smart thing to do.
|
| Yeah sure, that works every time, maybe Kennedy should have listened
| to his advisors and launched a pre emptive nuke strike on Cuba?
| But then you'd have nowhere to keep your Prisoners of Undeclared war
| out of sight.
|
| You run your country and we'll run ours.
|
| Hey it works fine for me!
| Pity we are working toward a free trade agreement with you guys
| that'll give you too much input into our politics
|
| Now, that's just plain stupid. Australia is too small to play trade
| wars with the EEC and the USA. The Asian economies aren't doing much
| for us either and are locking us out of agricultural exports to
| protect their domestic sector.
|
| We gain more from a FTA with the USA than we lose provided we get some
| agreement on agricultural products. If we don't, there's no reason why
| we should bother with an FTA - the USA doesn't make much that we can't
| source elsewhere and a series of bilateral FTAs like the NZ and
| Singapore models may well be better for us.
|
| The USA already has a lot of input into our politics the same as we do
| for NZ and for the same reasons - economic leverage.
|
| Peter Wiley