Let's debate, now, the president's border schemes

Larry Johnson

Date published: 6/21/2006

Listening to the House debate a meaningless "resolution" on staying the course in Iraq to me is like watching some people talking across the fence discussing the house that burned down two years ago ["Congress roars into election-year Iraq debate," June 16].

Or some kids trying to get their courage up before doing something really stupid.

This debate should have taken place before they bought into Bush's stories about the alleged threat from Iraq, before the invasion and occupation. Maybe we wouldn't be in such a hopeless situation.

I would like to see Congress do something proactive for the people of the U.S. for a change, instead of covering their collective backs after the fact.

For instance, how about debating Bush's commitment to a North American union, featuring the Trans-Texas Corridor--a 400-yard-wide privately owned toll road and utility corridor that will literally divide America in half, from ports in Mexico to Kansas City for the first leg.

The first Trans-Texas Corridor segment of the NAFTA superhighway is ready to begin construction next year.

The billions involved will be provided by a foreign company, Cintra Concessions de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A. of Spain.

Where is the support or opposition from Congress? Why are they sneaking this past the American people?

A good reason Bush does not want to secure the border with Mexico may be that the administration is trying to create express lanes for Mexican trucks to bring containers with cheap Far East goods into the heart of the U.S.

Stafford

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Date published: 6/21/2006