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Osolomia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 09:58 AM
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3. Stll no sign of intelligent life among the Dems, meanwhile

as but one of many examples all across the country:

Wednesday, October 1, 2003
Editorial: Cuban trade embargo not worth free-market cost

Politics often gets in the way of sound principle, as in the case of the United States' trade embargo against Cuba.

The principle of free trade has given way to the politics of a bygone era, in which the United States used economic sanctions to fight communism near our shores.

The U.S. trade embargo should be lifted. It should have been lifted long ago. It has grown so unpopular that politicians of all stripes oppose it.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Susan Combs acknowledged to a business group downstate recently that opposition to lifting the embargo is weakening in Congress.

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http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/100103/opi_cubantrade.shtml
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