Reply #13: NAFTA had already been signed when Clinton took office. [View All]

[El Pinko]

Once it was ratified, he signed it, but at least he pushed for NAAEC and NAALC to address some environmental and labor concerns with the original NAFTA pact.

Again, I disagree with Clinton's decision, but if he hadn't signed, it would have been a political mess, pulling the US out of a trade pact it had already signed, and he had run on a platform of being a "new democrat" friendly to business interests.

I'm not trying to absolve him of all responsibility for NAFTA, but the way a lot of people talk, you'd think that Clinton had written the damn thing himself.