Gee, step away for two hours, and you folks are still on this crap?
Here is another fact for you. Bush made his case in 2000 and 2004. He is not a follower, but your leader. He doesn't have to make his case to you or anyone else. Your comment reads like it was written by the White House press corps. There is so much rigidity based on so much ignorance that this thread is reaching DU level nonsense.
Osamma has got to be smiling at this insane plan. Even Republican officials in NYC are outraged by it. I don't care exactly what security functions these Arab muslim imports are going to be performing in our Eastern sea ports, the fact that they are there at all, IN ANY CAPACITY, is the damn stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life.
The UAE has several direct connections to 9/11, including issuing passports to the hijackers and laundering money. They supporst terrorists in Afghanistan, as well as the Iraq insurgency.
"On its face, this looks like [expletive] insanity to me," Republican minority leader of the New York City Council, James Oddo.