On 15 Mar 2003 at 19:54, Robert J. Chassell wrote:

>     ... do the French really think the probability of the US attacking
>     or subverting their country sometime in the future is greater than
>     the dangers posed by Hussein?
> 
> That is not the question.  The question is, for example, whether a US
> government thinks it better that France workers bear the cost of
> excess steel production than US workers.  Not long after he was
> elected, President Bush went against Republican rhetoric on freedom of
> trade and decided to favor certain US workers over French workers (and
> over some US Republicans, one of whom told me how angry he was with
> Bush, for pushing up steel prices).

Umm. He pushed *Europe*, and we pushed back, trade-wise.

Andy
Dawn Falcon

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