Schwarzenegger on MTP: "It freaks everyone out, and rightfully so"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

RUSSERT: Let me take a few minutes and talk about some of the issues the congressman and the senator were talking about. Ports. Do you believe that this deal should go forward to allow the United Arab Emirates company control six American ports, operate them?

SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, first of all, Tim, let me just say that California is not affected by that, which is good.

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SCHWARZENEGGER: And it's a very complex issue, because, you know, we have the globalization, we want to do trades with everyone all over the world, but at the same time, globalization crosses with terrorism now, and there's that whole fear. And then we have villainized the Arab world also so much that now Arab country -- or company taking over our ports and maybe have some influence in our security, it freaks everyone out, and rightfully so.

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RUSSERT: Do you think the Iraq war was a mistake?

SCHWARZENEGGER: No, I think it's always easy in hindsight to go and say maybe if we wouldn't have gone in, we wouldn't have had all this hassle.

More, along with Arianna Huffington's play-by-play critique, at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/russert-watch-meet-the-r_b_16401.html

[Lindacooks]

1. God, Schwarzenegger is such an idiot.

He thinks that thousands of people killed by war is a 'hassle'???

And it's 21 ports, not 6, Russet you imbecile.

[Mythsaje]

2. Huffington raises a few good points...

How does the port deal have a better chance of pissing off the Arabs than Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, or the new prison in Afghanistan?

[Erika]

3. good point n/t

[enid602]

4. No love lost

And the Emirs are probably not too well loved by the Arab masses, anyway.

[Drum]

5. Different: maybe the admin reads it as Arabs-That-Matter? nt

[xchrom]

6. they certainly play that game with ''americans''

there are americans that matter{i.e. the religous right} and those americans who don't matter.

[Javaman]

7. What an assinator...

I wish arn-OLD would just shut up. I can't believe he still hasn't been recalled.