Leaders announce new North American pact

[Dover]

March 23, 2005, 12:24PM

Leaders announce new North American pact
Initiative focuses on security, economic cooperation
Associated Press

WACO — President Bush, seeking smooth relations with U.S. neighbors despite dustups over immigration, trade and defense, announced today a pact with Canada and Mexico to broaden cooperation on security and economic issues.

"We had a good discussion about prosperity and security. It turns out the two go hand-in-hand," Bush said. "We've got a lot of trade with each other and we intend to keep it that way. We've got a lot of crossings of the borders and intend to make our borders more secure and facilitate legal traffic."

Neither Mexico nor Canada backed Bush's decision to invade Iraq, and that chilled relations between Bush and the two nations early in his first term. Relations have generally remained amiable, however, and all three leaders appeared cordial when they met with reporters here after their trilateral meeting...cont'd

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3099271

[PartyPooper]

1. Mexico and Canada should have both snubbed the shrub.

Why do all of these countries keep enabling Junior?

[Dover]

3. Because they are adults and can separate personal vs. collective issues.

They are keeping the big picture in mind. The world is dividing into separate trading zones now with currencies following suit.
Our boundaries are expanding....

[Wright Patman]

6. So I can move to any Canadian province

now as if it were one of the United States?

Great. I'm already packing. I'll tell the Canadian border guard Dover said it was okay.

[libhill]

4. It's called

Humoring a mad man. Not unlike the appeasement of Hitler in the 1930's.

[bemildred]

2. So Bush got nothing again. nt

[TahitiNut]

5. That 3-way "press conference" was so dense with gobbledygook ...

... it would serve as an example of how to spew a lot of words in three different languages (four, if you count Moranic) and say absolutely nothing. Nothing. Long, wordy replies that said nothing. Zip. Nada. Zilch. I haven't seen so much dodging, weaving, and evasion since we streaked campus in the 60's.