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	6/24/2005

Friedman on CAFTA

1) "Cafta is critical for enabling U.S. and Central American textile firms to compete with China"

2) "But President Bush needs to spend some political capital and sell this deal in these terms. 'The administration has to get out and connect the dots for people,' said Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of a thoughtful new book on foreign policy, The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course. 'Otherwise the vocal minority* will trump the interests of the majority.'"

You know, any shill with a modicum of talent can consume and dutifully regurgitate the talking points handed out by the USTR and the CFR. I thought Friedman had the capability to do a better job of lying to me. Of course, an honest journalist/opinion molder might be tempted to read the actual agreement (or the government's own internal analysis) and then make his own judgment as to whether the information he is promoting is justified. Friedman however seems happy carrying on in the best traditions of fellow NYT Pulitzer Prize winner Walter Duranty. I guess I should thank the N&R for bagging him.

*A handful of corporate interests and their paid performers like Friedman are suddenly the "majority" and the grassroots opposition from A to Z on the political spectrum are magically transformed into "the minority." Typical style for an agent of the CFR. The apology for this bastardization of the truth will be that "the majority doesn't know what their interests are as well as the minority who mold government policy."

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