Anitgua upping claim to $7 billion

[The Buzz]

$3.4 million just doesn't go as far these days. Or more accurately, it doesn't describe just how much Antigua is losing out on based on the U.S. violation of the WTO dispute.

The Antigua Sun is reporting that Antigua is going to up its compensation claim to $7 billion ...

http://www.antiguasun.com/paper/?as=...62007&ac=Local

[The Buzz]

As always, The Register's Burke Hansen puts together a solid piece on this development ...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08...tigua_demands/

The US has already gotten smoked before by the WTO for its intransigence on internet gambling, and deservedly so. If the US decides to cut off its nose to spite its face and destroy GATS, which it worked so hard for so many years to establish, well, that would only be another testament to the gross ignorance of the current administration.

The US has nothing to gain, and quite a bit to lose.