Don't piss off the Canadians!
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 9:09AM ■"Canada's Smiles for Camera Mask Chill in Ties With U.S.," by Joel Brinkley, New York Times, 25 October 2005, p. A8.
Canada is still super-pissed about those tariffs we laid on their soft lumber. It was stupid for the Bush administration to do, and even stupider of them to not respond to the NAFTA panel's judgment that we need to pay it all back pronto.
Meanwhile, as noted earlier, Canada talks openly of shifting its energy exports from the U.S. to China.
Yes, yes, do whatever the House of Saud says, but be my guest and piss off the world's second largest holder of oil reserves (when you count shale and sands).
Condi needs to tend to her garden, and talk to the Iranians, and lock in China, and . . . oh the list is too long to name and too much to hope for now that we'll soon have a lame-duck president crippled by scandals (that makes four in a row for two-termers: Nixon with Watergate, Reagan with Irangate, Clinton with Monicagate, and now Bush with whatever we're calling this latest one).
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