Billy Clinton's Frankenstein

The World Trade Organization imposed penalties yesterday on U.S. exports ranging from apples to textiles, escalating a trade dispute the Bush administration has struggled to defuse by unsuccessfully urging Congress to repeal legislation aimed at protecting American steelmakers.

Just how many times, one wonders, will the Bush Administration have to be bitten in the ass before it moves to dissociate itself from the WTO? Isn't it funny that the country that clamours loudest for the codification of "Free Trade" doctrine is the same that wants those rules ("laws of nature", if you want to listen to economists) to apply to everybody save itself?

Posted by Eddie Tews at November 28, 2004 03:31 PM