UAE gave $1 million to Bush library

[UpInArms]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/3681451.html

A sheik from the United Arab Emirates contributed at least $1 million to the Bush Library Foundation, which established the George Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University in College Station.

The UAE owns Dubai Port Co., which is taking operations from London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., which operates six U.S. ports. A political uproar has ensued over the deal, which the White House approved without congressional oversight.

The donations were made in the early 1990s for the library, which houses the papers of former President George Bush, the current president's father.

The list of donors names Sheik Zayed Bin Sultan al Nahyan and the people of the United Arab Emirates as one donor in the $1 million or more category.

The amount of the gift grants them recognition on the engraved donor wall in the library entrance or on the paving bricks that line the library's walkways, according to library documents.

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[Don Claybrook]

1. oh good. He sold us down the river for his library

I should've known, what with him being the education president and all.

This should score big points with middle America.

[NanceGreggs]

2. Don't you mean 'The G.W. Bush Liberry'?

And how many copies of "The Pet Goat" will that buy?

[HeeBGBz]

3. A lot of $$ for one copy of My Pet Goat

[MADem]

4. Why am I not surprised??? n/t

[rodeodance]

5. makes me sick to think of Bush have libraries dedicated to him!!

[AlGore-08.com]

6. Hey - - have you SEEN how much "Chick Tracks" go for on ebay now a days?

:crazy:

[MichiganVote]

7. Why bother? Everything's classified so won't be anything in it anyway

[gunsaximbo]

8. Bushes head is buried so far up the middle easts leaders asses

it's embarrassing even for me. That jerk bends over back wards for the middle eastern countries - at least the ones that have a ot of money.

I don't get it though... Why? what's the connection really? Is it just Oil? I have a hard time believing that.

[HamiltonHabs32]

9. Interesting, yet not suprised

[wordpix2]

10. CSX-DP World connected to Carlyle , therefore, Poppy, thus, * inheritance

also Crony Treas. Sec. Snow gets big pension from CSX worth millions---another DU thread on that.

Lots of connections worth millions for cronies and I'm sure Big Oil has a hand in there, too.

[Erika]

11. His legacy. Fear, terror, and acceptance of $ to W

What a legacy.

[aquart]

12. Not a bribe. Not a bribe. Not a bribe. Not a bribe. Not a bribe. Not.....

[Old and In the Way]

13. Just a small token of the House of Saud's appreciation.

Probably came out of the $10MM check that NYC refused after 9/11.....

[HuffleClaw]

14. yet bush claims he didn't know NUTTIN' ! ! !

one more thing linking der shrub to this deal. scotty will say, 'its totally unrelated and in the PAST!'

[leftchick]

15. and here is his highness....

I am sure it is all a mere coincidence. :eyes:

[saigon68]

16. That's one scary looking dude

[leftchick]

17. he apparently is dead

Died in November of 2004. Nice of him to shell out a few million to the chimp before he croaked.

[Cobalt Violet]

18. K & R. We know who the Bushes really work for.

[shayes51]

19. the plot thickens

[xchrom]

20. $1 million dollars.

and president bush DIDN'T know about the port deal?

in a pig's eye he didn't.