Sunday, March 2, 2008

McCain Claims Dems' NAFTA Opposition Hurts Anti-Terror Effort



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Continuing to assail the anti-NAFTA rhetoric of his would-be Democratic opponents, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Friday their pledges to renegotiate the free trade agreement would hurt international relations and the war in Afghanistan.

McCain Assails Dems' Nafta StanceAs competition heats up in the Democratic primary in Ohio, Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., have ratcheted up their rhetoric against the trade agreement that eliminated most tariffs between the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Unions say NAFTA, signed into law by President Clinton, has cost the United States at least 1 million jobs, around 200,000 in Ohio.

Polls indicate approximately one-quarter of Democratic voters in Ohio are part of union households.

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