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I've tried ... tried hard ... but it's no use. I just can't understand why George Bush is so invested in this idea

Me either. It is another one of these moments for GW Bush.

They use to complain that Bush 41 was tone deaf and out of touch with the real world ... evidently this trait has been passed on, and amplified many times over, in Bush 43.
First Miers and now this (you could throw in Katrina in the sense Bush let that get by him in a PR sense). Bush's stance where this UAE & U.S. port security is concerned is absolutely incredible ... and totally incomprehensible. Many of Bush's harshest liberal critics have called him stupid ... I'm beginning to believe they may be right.

Perhaps Hillary would rather the deal go to the company from Singapore. Hmmm. isn't Elaine Kanchanalak from Singapore? Or was that Lippo Group?

Odd that everyone is shrieking now over a deal that was started over a year ago and was about finalized last October. Reminds me of the Cartoon Riots.

If this is a big issue than the shrieking should have started when the bidding got down to two overseas companies, not now that the deal is done. Back then would have been the time to move to ensure a US firm got the job, and I cannot believe that Congress and State and Commerce didn't know what was going down.

Could it be, as I hinted above, that the rabble is being roused to switch the contract winner to a different foreign firm?