Posted on 02/22/2006 7:45:36 AM PST by SmithL
WASHINGTON -- President Bush was unaware of the pending sale of shipping operations at six major U.S. seaports to a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates until the deal already had been approved by his administration, the White House said Wednesday.
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Likely Story!
What does this matter? He's still vetoing any efforts to block it
Someone in the administration dropped the ball then.
Talk about a pig in a poke. He didn't know about it -- but he'll risk his political position on the decision being right!
I don't buy it.
I am not sure a british company selling itself to another company needs to tell us. I think the issue is not who knew what when but what we are doing now that we know a sale is in the process.
We can cancel the P&O deal as we hope our agreement notes that the agreement is not assignable and move to another company.
I was against this deal before I was for it?
Slowly take your finger off the trigger, Mr. President. Remove the bomb and announce that you will not stand in the way of the congressional review of the deal.
Tell Halliburton to get to work on their proposal to run the ports.
But he still said he'd veto any Congressional attempt to scuttle the deal. What's he trying to do, win the John F. Kerry award for Political Whoredom...?
What kind of IDIOTS are working in the white house??
Trial balloon, testing for backlash against a backtrack.
imo
"Brownie, you are doing a heck of job here!"
Now he needs to look into and take back the political high ground.
The US called off a strike against Osama Bin Laden because members of the UAE royal family were visiting him in Afghanistan.
UAE royals, bin Laden's saviours
March 25, 2004 12:04 IST
The Central Intelligence Agency did not target Al Qaeda chief Osama bin laden once as he had the royal family of the United Arab Emirates with him in Afghanistan, the agency's director, George Tenet, told the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States on Thursday.
Had the CIA targeted bin Laden, half the royal family would have been wiped out as well, he said.
The 10-member bipartisan commission is investigating the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks in the US.
http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/mar/25osama.htm
Why?
Perhaps he knows the actual facts, huh?
That was my first thought too. He needs to cover so he can extricate himself from the political firestorm and still save face.
According to other reports, Rumsfeld didn't know about it either.
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