Hi, I'm Bob Dole and I'm one of the many lobbyists that work for the UAE.
Someone's got their DNC talking points.
So they engaged in this secret, dastardly plot...to get Dubai to open all its records?
Wow. I hope all those on Hillary's side of this story are happy.
Hope you all are proud.. another secret op busted before it even got off the ground.
Pathetic.
We trusted Bush to close our borders and he did nothing. This is virtually the same topic.
He has proven how much we can trust him.
Why let the above interfere with the creation of a hyped story and a fraudulent headline?
Documents can be forged and autocratic Arab Muslims have plenty of practice at it and other forms of duplicity. If the UAE was as trustworthy as alleged elsewhere, what need is there for such extraordinary agreements? And if it isn't, what business does the government have in giving them access to our major ports in the middle of a war where most of their people are hardcore enemy supporters?
Much ado about nothing. But it is an election year and it is time to scare people into voting for them.
Psalm 127:1 Unless the LORD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain.
*sigh* The DNC wants the US to lose. They would rather rule a land of ashes and tears, than live in a paradise of milk and honey.
Sick, sick, sick...
What a ridiculous headline.
Time for Dick Cheney to go hunting again. :)
this deal is a joke, nothing substantial gained but much given away.
President Bush was just far too emotionally involved from the starting point (from Air Force One, after reading the news, at that!) for comfort, and I do believe it indicated/indicates some sort of arrangement he's already made that would then be compromised by changes to the Port Deal. I got the impression that deals had been exchanged a while prior to and that the Port Deal was the conclusion...not the beginning. I'm still opposed to it, although it is difficult for me to write that. If it's the one and only, then let it work through Congress. I am not at all comfortable having a UAE government owned company with this purchase.
This is why the feces has hit the air circuilater.
The POTUS has made a boo boo here.
What's emerged here is that a lot of Americans have issues with Bush's handling or perceived handling of national security, based upon the border issues and illegal immigration. Good reasons to be concerned, I think. This Port Deal just set off the meter but for mostly the same concerns...Bush has a P.R. problem among his voter base and it's a big problem domestically affecting other pursuits by the Administration.
Hi, I'm Bob Dole and I'm one of the many lobbyists that work for the UAE.
Rove let this one get away from him. Had many of the provisions been made public, maybe this storm would never have existed. Folks in the Administration made some terrible blunders with the PR and talking points on this deal.
This is the same federal government that is positively helpless in keeping illiterate Mexicans from crawling over a barbed wire fence to get into the US and is now assuring us that they can handle security at ports they have turned over to Arabs. Good grief...Homeland Security couldn't even keep track of ice trucks for Katrina Relief. They must think the US public has amnesia.
"The Bush administration secretly required a company in the United Arab Emirates to cooperate with future U.S. investigations before approving its takeover of operations at six American ports, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press."
Bush made them secretly agree to comply with the law?