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is revealing that the Administration and Congressional supporters sell trade agreements to the American public as instruments of national security rather than as vehicles for greater economic opportunity, even as the Administration now selfs the invasion of Iraq no longer as a national security necessity but as a democrucy building mission.
S. Middle East Partnership Initiative and the bi-lateral trade agreements between the United States and governments in the region that are the platform for the Administration's Middle East Free Trade Area.
At the core of the Iniriurive are a series 'of bi-lateral free trade agreements and a program for the development of "civil society" in the Muslim World referred to as the Middle East Partnership Initiative.
The United States seems to be well on its ways to meeting its grand goal of establishing a Greater Middle East Free Trade Area.
S. GREATER MIDDLE EAST INITIATIVE 89 Agreement with Egypt until spring 2003 when Egypt withdrew it support· of a complaint by the United States before the World Trade Organization.
At the same time that the Administration is forging free trade agreements with governments across North Africa, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia, the "special relationship" that once' persuaded the government of Saudi Arabia to discount oil sales to the United States is unraveling.
10 As. the Administration piles up bi-lateral free trade agreements, it limits substantially the ability of governments in the Greater Middle East and in the United States to legislate in the public interest.