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Newly released White House records demonstrate that Clinton lied about NAFTA.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/14/did-hillary-clinton-reall_n_86674.html
Clinton biographer Sally Bedell Smith writes in her book "For Love of Politics," her disapproval of the trade agreement was both political and philosophical.
The economic team and other key advisors, including Mack McLarty, Mickey Kantor, and David Gergen, were likewise urging Bill to use his momentum to push or congressional ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)...Liberal Democrats, including Hillary, opposed it primarily because it could take jobs away from American workers.
Carl Bernstein, another Clinton biographer, echoed much the same tale during a recent appearance on CNN.
"'Bill,'" he recalled Hillary Clinton as saying, "'you are doing Republican economics when you are doing NAFTA.' She was against NAFTA. And if she would somehow come out and tell the eal story of what she fought for in the White House and failed in a big argument with her husband she would end up moving much closer to those [John] Edwards followers."
