"Condi you know I don't care what the Senate or American Peasants

[Flabbergasted]

Think. Get over to Dubai and smooth things over."

Rice to soothe fears over ports row on UAE visit
Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:38 PM ET

By Saul Hudson

RIYADH (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will seek to soothe fears of U.S. hostility over a ports deal on a visit to the United Arab Emirates on Thursday.

Rice's trip to Abu Dhabi was scheduled before a political row erupted in Washington over the sale to an Emirates-backed company of operations at six major U.S. ports.

However, Rice stressed on the eve of her visit for a regional conference that the Gulf state was a trusted ally in the U.S. war against terrorism in spite of American lawmakers' concerns that the deal could be a threat to national security.

[MadMaddie]

1. Apparantly Condi and the * Cabal ....

do not care what Americans think. She is more concerned about what the Middle East countries are comfortable with.

[mom cat]

4. Well, she just struck out in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

[Fridays Child]

2. A trusted ally that allows slavery, recognizes the Taliban, and...

...doesn't believe that Israel has the right to exist. Scott McClellan as much as stated the real reason for the deal, today, when he warned what might happen, if they didn't let it go through. He stopped short of calling it blackmail but that's sure what it sounded like to me. Liveoaktx has the clip at http://www.canofun.com/cof/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=17065&mid=101678#M101678.

[liberaltrucker]

3. I could make a snide comment

about, oh, say, Massa George, or how CondaSleeza forgot her Alabama roots.
But I'd prefer not to get TSed.

[MadMaddie]

6. Hey Black America (which includes me) is already saying it......

:puke:

sometimes you gotta call it like you see it....

[beltanefauve]

5. Can you sing

"Stand by Your Man"?