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| Contributor | Eddie |
| Last Edited | Eddie Feb 29, 2004 01:24pm |
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| Media | TV News - Columbia Broadcasting System CBS News |
| News Date | Sunday, February 29, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The four remaining Democrats in the race for president disagreed as often Sunday over whose turn it was to talk as over major policy questions. When they did hit "the issues," they were sometimes at odds with each other, and — occasionally — with the facts.
Speaking the day Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled his country in the face of a rebellion, John Edwards chided the Bush administration for failing to act "when this problem began to develop."
In fact, Bill Clinton was president when the problem began to develop.
Revisiting a top theme of the campaign to date, the candidates sparred lengthily over trade. While Edwards and John Kerry went back and forth over their Senate votes, Al Sharpton and Dennis Kucinich offered deeper critiques of free trade.
"WTO does not permit any modification," Kucinich said. Sharpton chimed in "You cannot change it."
In fact, the WTO treaty allows some exceptions to its provisions. Countries who sign on are not obligated to accept measures that hurt "public morals," threaten "human, animal or plant life or health," or affect "national treasures of artistic, historic or archaeological value" or "exhaustible natural resources."
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