NYT MoDo: GOP to Bush: You're nuts!

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GOP to Bush: You're nuts!

By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: February 22, 2006

IT'S enough to make you nostalgic for those gnarly union stevedores in "On the Waterfront," the ones who hung up rats on hooks and took away Marlon Brando's chance to be a contend-ah.
Maybe it's corporate racial profiling, but I don't want foreign companies, particularly ones with links to Sept. 11, running American ports.

What kind of empire are we if we have to outsource our coastline to a group of sheiks who don't recognize Israel, in a country where money was laundered for the Sept. 11 attacks? And that let A.Q. Khan, the Pakistani nuclear scientist, smuggle nuclear components through its port to Libya, North Korea and Iran?
It's mind-boggling that President Bush ever agreed to let an alliance of seven emirs be in charge of six of our ports. Although, as usual, Incurious George didn't even know about it until after the fact. (Neither did Rummy, even though he heads one of the agencies that green-lighted the deal.)

Same old pattern: A stupid and counterproductive national security decision is made in secret, blowing off checks and balances, and the president's out of the loop.

Was W. too busy not calling Dick Cheney to find out why he shot a guy to be involved in a critical decision about U.S. security? What is he waiting for — a presidential daily brief warning, "Bin Laden Determined to Attack U.S. Ports"?

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Bush is hoist with his own petard. For four years, the White House has accused anyone in Congress or the press who defended civil liberties or questioned anything about the Iraq war of being soft on terrorism. Now, as Congress and the press turn that accusation back on the White House.

http://groups.google.com/group/SocietysChild/browse_thread/thread/f7394534f3c211cd/7320f716a6a6e2fe?lnk=st&q=Bush+acts+mystified+by+the+orgy+of+xenophobia&rnum=2#7320f716a6a6e2fe

http://www.insidebayarea.com/dailyreview/oped/ci_3538296

[colonel odis]

1. democrats to gop: we've been telling you he was for 6 years now.

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2. Kick n/t