Does the Dubai deal have special importance to Bush?

[Kablooie]

Bush is so adamant that this deal go through that it makes me think that behind the scenes there is a lot more at stake for Bush than it appears.

Could it be that he owes the Dubai royals some great debt and this was his way of paying it back? If the deal doesn't go through could a large portion of his secret supporters fall away?

He seems desperate and there must be a reason.

I just hope the deal is killed, not only for the security issues, which are clearly serious, but also because I want to see if it begins to make him crumble.

If you borrow from the mob, you've got to pay it back or you'll may have to try on cement overshoes.

[slor]

1. Cold hard cash...

for family and friends. One cannot worry about silly National Security, when it is time to get PAID.

[CTyankee]

2. Does a bear sh* t in the woods? n/t

[godai]

3. UAE gave $1M to Bush Library

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

[brentspeak]

4. Also, the GOP is trying to privatize everything

as well as stick it to unions.

[LeFleur1]

8. Paying Debt

Could it be that we have borrowed so much money from the countries in the middle east as, well as from China, with dollars that have no backing that the UAE has decided this will be one way to pay some of that debt?

There are those who say that the countries we have borrowed from want to keep the dollar afloat and worth something to protect their investment. But if they decide that they want certain powers in our country as payback instead of the dollar (such as secrets held by our ports)...what would Bush do? He'd give it to them, of course, being the weak kneed coward that he is.

If the UAE believes that the Taliban is wrong, that bin Laden should not be supported why would they threaten the US, saying the UAE might not be supportive anymore if they don't get this port deal? Their little blackmail threat gives this whole deal an even more dirty feel.

[spag68]

12. unions

This is nothing new please remember that as a lawyer nixon was an auther of the taft-hartly act writtten in 48 or so.
reagen started the real attack on the unions with the firing of all the air traffic controllers That smiling bastard was worse then bush1 but bush 2 is and will always be the worst because he has sped up all of these corporate sins against the middle class.

[blm]

5. Yep - Why did Bush1 block BCCI investigations on global terror funding?

The Bushes, the House of Saud, the Bin Ladens, the UAE royals, Pakistani nuclear proliferators, and arms dealers around the globe have been behind most of the terror funding and regional unrests for over 4 decades now.

[PATRICK]

9. The rotten glued together spaghetti

Bush I causes(intentionally or not is no consequence) Hussein's misadventure. Bases troops in Saudi Arabia, angering and giving opportunity to the Bin Laden Al Qaeda which it does nothing about except lead Clinton into a trap in the Sudan and reaping the benefits of terrorist attacks here without much cooperation from the CIA Bush also formed and hires from and the war industry profits and the Bush II is set up and oil profits do much better under Bush II and they use the same money channels and impoverish and enslave their populations and more wars against terror and in the region disabled by extremism Bush helped promote in several ways, planned and just serendipitous, and neither Bush promoted arms deals or disarmament and Bush II shreds all war treaties and wars nearly break out between Pakistan and India, the Koreas, but sell them more stuff, to all of them, like grandaddy would and get all the oil club, the ones not invaded, reaping the benefits of America's war on terror and security sham which does nothing except toss us....

like meatballs into the same plate of bloody spaghetti, spun onto a fork, speared and eaten.

And no one thinks it unwise to have this tangled web itself ruling over every aspect and every drama created by this same tangle for largely its own benefit and always to the harm of absolutely everyone else on the planet and generations(if any) to come?

[Kablooie]

6. I still wonder if there could be ramifications we aren't aware of.

Ramifications for Bush personally that is.

[Inland]

7. There's obviously a greater "deal" of which ports is only a part.

What that is, we can only speculate. Who knows what Bush is trading our security for? A base to attack Iran? A foothold for US companies in the Gulf? All I know is, the people being asked to risk their lives wouldn't think it worth it.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

10. This is Just Bush.

He's always had a big woody for the Saudis and the UAE, and is quite happy to sell of critical US infrastructure to foreign investors.

[blm]

13. Global fascism has been their goal for over 40 years. This is one blatant

piece of the puzzle.

[spag68]

11. ports deal

Of course there is something going on with bushco and the dubai princes On the security side remember this, the coast guard is responsible on the sea, our import and immigrqtion auth. is responsible at the dock, but once the containers are of loaded and on land the port operator is then responsible and in charge of it.

[The Magistrate]

14. That Has Occured To Me As Well, Sir

The thing is so foolish and wrong-foot as a political matter, and clung to even so so tightly, that the thought of some hidden benefit to the author behind it is well nigh irresistible. As money corruption is the traditional downfall of rightists, my suspicions run towards briberies on a scale that would make Teapot Dome or Credite Mobilier seem a sandwich to a beat cop by compare....

"LEt'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

[leftofthedial]

15. he owes them a shitload for doing the 9-11 MIHOP for him