In yet another 1600 Crew Tora Bora moment, Preznit Collectin' D. Cash has made it pretty clear he's not going to endanger getting future revenues from his UAE buddies. National Security be damned, let a company from one of the three countries that recognized the Taliban as a legitimate government, and is a base for Al-Qaeda financial supporters do Port Security.
President George W. Bush said on Tuesday that a deal for a state-owned Dubai company to manage major U.S. ports should go forward and will not jeopardize U.S. security.
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"After careful review by our government, I believe the transaction ought to go forward," Bush said. He added that if the U.S. Congress passed a law to stop the deal, "I'll deal with it with a veto."
'Careful review' being Beloved Leader-speak for the bureaucrats/campaign contributors who are just doing a Heckuva Job at whatever agency reviews contracts for other campaign contributors.
The Democratic "Leadership" should be using every opportunity to read this crap into the congressional record at every floor speech, holding press conferences and beating the 1600 Crew about the head and shoulders with this little gift. More than likely though, they'll hold a strategy meeting at the Capital Grille, where there will be a suitable number of "harrumph harrumphs", and a "stinging" but inoffesively-worded press release will be sent condeming the UAE contracts and seeking a bi-partisan solution to the problem, because we Democrats do Policy not Politics. Jeebus.
posted by Jo Fish on 02.21.06 at 04:14 PM
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Wow, if his cronies in government have looked into this as well as they stopped the terrorists on 911, identified weapons of mass destruction, and handled the New Orleans disaster, shucks, I trust their assessment on this one.... NOT!!! The obvious question is, who profits???? Who wants to vote that someone in the chain of deicision on this one will make a killing? This just stinks on several levels, and I'll bet it's much worse then we yet know. Force him to use his first veto. That would bring up this issue in public, and show that he is not the one to protect the US (NEVER WAS AND NEVER WILL BE).
The 1600 Crew have told the American public for so long that the only thing they have to fear in this world is a muslim country. Now this same 1600 Crew want to try to "sell" the American public the notion that it's OK for a foreign muslim government to control 6 US ports? I don't know if they can pull it off but if they do...
posted by: Nina on 02.21.06 at 09:18 PM [permalink]