It's My Way Or The Highway!
Hello again loyal readers. I hope everyone is in good health.
Today's post concerns the Bush Administration's unwillingness to reconsider the ports deal.
As those of you who follow the news know, a United Arab Emirates-based company called "Dubai Ports World"(DPW) recently completed a takeover deal with the UK-based company "Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation" (P&O). The deal would turn over control of several large American ports to DPW.
Now in my opinion, this is a bad idea. The UAE has, in the past, supported Al Qaida money laundering operations and two of the 9/11 hijackers came from the UAE. In the UAE's defense, they have recently been cooperating with the US in intelligence operations and have been allowing US ships to anchor in their ports. However, given that the UAE has a past record of supporting terrorist operations, is in a part of the world where radical Islamic fundamentalists have a real chance of co-opting the government, and that allowing a company from such a place to run one of our strategic assets would be giving the terrorists a wide open backdoor into the US, I believe that this is a bad deal. I believe that it is so bad that it is akin to giving aid and support to terrorists.
In order for the deal to proceed, the White House needs to give its blessing to the deal. They have already done so and, according to an AP report today, they are refusing to reconsider the deal. In essence, the Bush Administration is saying that on this deal, "It's my way or the highway!" Then again, perhaps Bush is afraid that reconsidering the deal would be an admission that he didn't investigate the matter as thoroughly as he would have us believe (in other words he lied, again). After all, just the other day he claimed that he didn't even know about the deal. Of course, later that evening it was revealed that the White House had a secret agreement in place with DPW. That leads me to believe that this deal is a "payoff" of sorts for the UAE's recent cooperation.
As I recall, didn't Bush state that countries that had supported terrorist operations were enemies of the US? Well, given the UAE's record concerning terrorism and money laundering, isn't this selling a strategic asset to an enemy? Do you know what giving US strategic assets to an enemy of the US is called? It is called "treason"!
We now know that Bush had a secret deal in place for this sale, we know that the UAE has supported terrorist money laundering, we know that a government that supports terrorism is an enemy of the US, and lastly, we know that turning over control of US ports to DPW is, essentially, assigning US strategic assets to an enemy of the US. We can also speculate that turning over these ports to DPW would give the terrorists a potentially large backdoor into the US and that, according to the information put out by the Bush Administration, the most likely place for a terrorist to get a WMD into the US is through the ports.
Now, I ask you the readers, is the Bush Administration a collection of the mentally challenged or are they criminally negligent? By approving this deal the Administration is not only giving "aid and support to terrorists", but they are also giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and they are committing treason! This deal, coupled with the fact that Bush likes to violate the Constitution on a regular basis and the fact that his administration has violated or ignored several other federal laws, should give Congress enough to impeach him. But will they? The answer is a resounding "NO". This Congress is the biggest bunch of cowards and turncoats that I have ever seen, heard, or read about (and remember, I am a historian, so I have read about quite a few!) This deal should be the final nail in the coffin for the Bush dictatorship, but, again, nothing will come of it.
Folks, we need to stand up and demand that George W. Bush, et al, be impeached, tried for treason, and, at least, imprisoned. And we need to do it before the terrorists can smuggle a WMD into the US through the soon to be DPW/terrorist-controlled ports!
I am Chuck and this has been my rant.
Today's post concerns the Bush Administration's unwillingness to reconsider the ports deal.
As those of you who follow the news know, a United Arab Emirates-based company called "Dubai Ports World"(DPW) recently completed a takeover deal with the UK-based company "Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation" (P&O). The deal would turn over control of several large American ports to DPW.
Now in my opinion, this is a bad idea. The UAE has, in the past, supported Al Qaida money laundering operations and two of the 9/11 hijackers came from the UAE. In the UAE's defense, they have recently been cooperating with the US in intelligence operations and have been allowing US ships to anchor in their ports. However, given that the UAE has a past record of supporting terrorist operations, is in a part of the world where radical Islamic fundamentalists have a real chance of co-opting the government, and that allowing a company from such a place to run one of our strategic assets would be giving the terrorists a wide open backdoor into the US, I believe that this is a bad deal. I believe that it is so bad that it is akin to giving aid and support to terrorists.
In order for the deal to proceed, the White House needs to give its blessing to the deal. They have already done so and, according to an AP report today, they are refusing to reconsider the deal. In essence, the Bush Administration is saying that on this deal, "It's my way or the highway!" Then again, perhaps Bush is afraid that reconsidering the deal would be an admission that he didn't investigate the matter as thoroughly as he would have us believe (in other words he lied, again). After all, just the other day he claimed that he didn't even know about the deal. Of course, later that evening it was revealed that the White House had a secret agreement in place with DPW. That leads me to believe that this deal is a "payoff" of sorts for the UAE's recent cooperation.
As I recall, didn't Bush state that countries that had supported terrorist operations were enemies of the US? Well, given the UAE's record concerning terrorism and money laundering, isn't this selling a strategic asset to an enemy? Do you know what giving US strategic assets to an enemy of the US is called? It is called "treason"!
We now know that Bush had a secret deal in place for this sale, we know that the UAE has supported terrorist money laundering, we know that a government that supports terrorism is an enemy of the US, and lastly, we know that turning over control of US ports to DPW is, essentially, assigning US strategic assets to an enemy of the US. We can also speculate that turning over these ports to DPW would give the terrorists a potentially large backdoor into the US and that, according to the information put out by the Bush Administration, the most likely place for a terrorist to get a WMD into the US is through the ports.
Now, I ask you the readers, is the Bush Administration a collection of the mentally challenged or are they criminally negligent? By approving this deal the Administration is not only giving "aid and support to terrorists", but they are also giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and they are committing treason! This deal, coupled with the fact that Bush likes to violate the Constitution on a regular basis and the fact that his administration has violated or ignored several other federal laws, should give Congress enough to impeach him. But will they? The answer is a resounding "NO". This Congress is the biggest bunch of cowards and turncoats that I have ever seen, heard, or read about (and remember, I am a historian, so I have read about quite a few!) This deal should be the final nail in the coffin for the Bush dictatorship, but, again, nothing will come of it.
Folks, we need to stand up and demand that George W. Bush, et al, be impeached, tried for treason, and, at least, imprisoned. And we need to do it before the terrorists can smuggle a WMD into the US through the soon to be DPW/terrorist-controlled ports!
I am Chuck and this has been my rant.
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