The U.S. has a TRADE AGREEMENT With the UAE:

[berni_mccoy]

Bush has made the U.S. the lapdog of the UAE. He's agreed to consider ANY trade or investment matter between the U.S. WITHIN 30 DAYS. The UAE says "Jump", The U.S. Says "How High, SIR!?!"

This Trade Agreement was signed in March of 2004!

http://www.ustr.gov/assets/Trade_Agreements/Regional/MEFTA/asset_upload_file305_3540.pdf

Here is the text:

AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
CONCERNING THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRADE AND INVESTMENT RELATIONS
The Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Arab Emirates
(individually a "Party" and collectively the "Parties"):
1. Desiring to enhance the bonds of friendship and spirit of cooperation between the two
countries' ,
2. Desiring to promote further both countries' international trade and economic
interrelationship;
3. Recognizing the vast potential for economic cooperation and the importance of exploring
business opportunities for enterprises in each country;
4. Recognizing that both countries could deepen and broaden bilateral trade and investment
based on the complementary characteristics of their economies;
5. Recognizing the importance of fostering an open and predictable environment for
international trade and investment;
6. Recognizing the benefits to each Party resulting from increased international trade and
investment, and that trade-distorting investment measures and protectionist trade barriers
would deprive the Parties of such benefits;
7. Taking into account the membership of the two countries in the World Trade Organization
(WTO) and noting that this Agreement is without prejudice to each Party's rights and
obligations, where applicable, under the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the WTO and
the agreements, understandings, and other instruments relating thereto or concluded under
the auspices of the WTO;
8. Acknowledging prior bilateral agreements signed by the Parties, including the Agreement
Between the United States of America and the Government of the United Arab Emirates on
Investment Guaranties signed September 29, 1991;
9. Noting that this Agreement is without prejudice to the rights and obligations of the Parties
under the agreements cited in the precedent paragraph 8;
10. Recognizing the essential role of private investment, both domestic and foreign, in furthering
growth, creating jobs, expanding trade, improying technology, and enhancing economic
development;
11. Recognizing that foreign direct investment confers positive benefits on each Party;
12. Desiring to encourage and facilitate private sector contacts between the two countries;
13. Recognizing the desirability of resolving trade and investment problems as expeditiously as
possible;
14. Recognizing the increased importance of services i~ their economies and in their bilateral
relations;
15. Taking into account the need to eliminate non-tariff barriers in order to facilitate greater
access to the markets of both countries and the mutual benefits thereof;
16. Recognizing the importance of providing adequate and effective protection and enforcement
of intellectual property rights and of membership in and adherenc~ to intellectual property
rights conventions;
17. Recognizing the importance of providing adequate and effective protection and enforcing
workers rights in accordance with each nation's own labor laws, and of working toward the
respect and promotion of internationally recognized core labor standards as reaffirmed in the
Doha Declaration;
18. Desiring to ensure that trade and environmental policies are mutually supportive in the
furtherance of sustainable development;
19. Recognizing that this Framework Agreement shall reinforce the multilateral trading system
by strengthening efforts to complete successfully the Doha Development Agenda; and
20. Considering that it would be in their mutual interest to establish a bilateral mechanism
between the Parties for encouraging the liberalization of trade and investment between them.
To this end, the Parties agree as follows:

ARTICLE ONE
The Parties affirm their desire to promote an attractive investment climate and expand trade in
products and services consistent with the terms of this Agreement. They shall take appropriate
measures to encourage and facilitate the exchange of goods and services and to secure favorable
conditions for long-term development and diversification of trade between the two countries.

ARTICLE TWO
The Parties shall establish a United States-United Arab Emirates Council on Trade and Investment
("the Council"), which shall be composed of representatives of both Parties. The side of the United
Arab Emirates will be chaired by the Ministry of Finance and Industry; and the U.S. side will be
chaired by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative ("USTR"). Both Parties may be assisted by
officials of other government entities as circumstances require. The Council will meet at least once
a year and at such times as agreed by the two Parties.

ARTICLE THREE
The objectives of the Council are as follows:
1 To promote and enhance the economic cooperation between the Parties.
2. To monitor trade and investment relations, to identify opportunities for expanding trade and
investment, and to identify issues relevant to trade or investment that may be appropriate for
negotiation in an appropriate forum.
3. To hold consultations on specific trade and investment matters of interest to the Parties.
4. To identify and work toward the removal of impediments to trade and investment flows.
5. To seek the advice of the private sector, where appropriate, in their respective countries on
matters related to the work of the Council.

ARTICLE FOUR
Either Party may raise for consultation any trade or investment matter between the Parties. Requests
for consultation shall be accompanied by a written explanation of the subject to be discussed and
consultations shall be held within 30 days of the request, unless the requesting Party agrees to a later
date. Each Party shall endeavor to provide for an opportunity for consultations before taking actions
that could affect adversely the trade or investment interests of the other Party.

ARTICLE FIVE
This Agreement shall be without prejudice to the domestic law of either Party or the rights and
obligations of either Party under any other agreement to which it is a party.
ARTICLE SIX
This Agreement shall enter into force on the date that the Parties exchange notes stating that each
has completed the required procedures under its domestic law.

ARTICLE SEVEN
This Agreement shall remain in force unless terminated by mutual consent of the Parties or by either
Party upon six months written notice to the other Party.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being duly authorized by their respective governments,
have signed this Agreement..
DONE at Washington this 15th day of March 2004, in the English and Arabic languages, with both
texts being equally authentic.
FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: :
ROBERT B. ZOELLICK
UNITED STATES
TRADE REPRESENTATIVE

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES:
MOHAMMED KHALFAN BIN KHIRBASH
MINISTER OF STATE FOR
FINANCE & INDUSTRY

[Vincardog]

1. OK the B Crime Family are the Arabs bitch. Does that mean we all are?

[aquart]

2. So? We signed some treaties Bush negated. His word is worth spit.

[The_Farouk]

3. SO?

Whats wrong with a trade deal? The top fortune 500 companies based in the US already have major offices there. Perhaps this is the best way to win the war on terror. Trade with teh Middle East and spread our consumerism so that they will be too busy to shop in order to fight back.

[stepnw1f]

4. And in Turn Weaken Our Defenses for a Country

that has funded and aided terrorism. Are you ok?

[The_Farouk]

6. thats a stretch

Just becase their Arab doesnt mean they funded terror. They also handed over the primary suspect in the USS Cole bombing. Furthermore, they share intel with us on a regular basis. They are teh most westernized country in the Middle east.

I dont like the deal becasue it should be done by Americans but I would point out they would not be in charge of security.

PORT SECURITY IS CARRIED OUT BY THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT....Im not yelling I just wanted to bring people back to earth.

[peanutbrittle]

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[WePurrsevere]

11. Wow, there's a lot of info there. Thanks for the link n/t

[stepnw1f]

9. I Don't Give a Damn Who They Are

They are a foreign country. By doing so, he is weakening our homeland security due to MONEY! And the fact that you can't see that our port security, which is part of our National Security, isn't more important than some Trade Deal, just shows where your priorities are.

"PORT SECURITY IS CARRIED OUT BY THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT"

You vote for this guy? Just a question?

[The_Farouk]

15. take it easy buddy....

I dont like Bush anymore than you do, nor do I like this deal, but in the heat of our united hatred of Arabs (insert sarcasm here) we have lost site of some facts. Port security is the responsbility of the state and local government. Now they dont do a good job as it is and our ports are already vunerable. This deal will not make the ports any more or less safe. The real issue is that we are cedeing control to a foreign run company PERIOD. But thats not the argument. All I have heard is how this is an "Arab" company. First the arguments reek of arabphobia, and a cursory glance at the companies leadership, outside of the royal family, you would find several europeans. UEA nationals would not be in charge on the ground at the ports. They dont work..

There is no doubt in my mind that the Dubia is capalble of doing this job, probalby better than others but the deal should have included mandates for american jobs....That my point.

[seemslikeadream]

10. I want you to start reading this

I will post in sections because of copyright

The C.I.A. & The Muslim Brotherhood How the CIA set the stage for Sept11


Reverend Franklin Graham, the pugnacious preacher who delivered the prayer at President George W. Bush's 2001 inauguration, might have a bone to pick with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). When Franklin branded Islam "a very evil and wicked religion" after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he had no idea that American spies were once eager to promote a Muslim leader in the Middle East modeled after his own father, the famous evangelist Billy Graham.

The CIA often works in mysterious ways - and so it was with this little-known cloak-and-dagger caper that set the stage for extensive collaboration between US intelligence and Islamic extremists. The genesis of this ill-starred alliance dates back to Egypt in the mid-1950s, when the CIA made discrete overtures to the Muslim Brotherhood, the influential Sunni fundamentalist movement that fostered Islamic militancy throughout the Middle East. What started as a quiet American flirtation with political Islam became a Cold War love affair on the sly - an affair that would turn out disastrously for the United States. Nearly all of today's radical Islamic groups, including al-Qaeda, trace their lineage to the Brotherhood.

“The Muslim Brothers are at the root of a lot of our troubles,” says Col. W. Patrick Lang, one of several US intelligence veterans interviewed for this article . Formerly a high-ranking Middle East expert at the Defense Intelligence Agency Lang considers al-Qaeda to be “a descendent of the Brotherhood.

For many years, the American espionage establishment had operated on the assumption that Islam was inherently anti-communist and there fore could be harnessed to facilitate US objectives. American officials viewed the Muslim Brotherhood as “a secret weapon” in the shadow war against the Soviet Union and it’s Arab allies, according to Robert Baer, a retired CIA case officer who was right in the thick of things in the Middle East and Central Asia during his 21 year career as a spy. In Sleeping with the Devil, a book he wrote after quitting the CIA Baer explains how the United States “made common cause with the Brothers” and used them “to do our dirty work in Yemen, Afghanistan and plenty of other places”. This covert relationship; unraveled when the Cold War ended, whereupon an Islamic Frankenstein named Osama bin Laden lurched into existence.

Described by ex-CIA analyst Graham Fuller as “the preeminent international Islamist organization,” the Muslim Brotherhood currently has a huge following with autonomous branches, all in close contact, spread across the Arab world.
But it is banned in several countries, including Egypt, it’s birthplace, for being an alleged front for terrorists - a claim its supporters adamantly deny even though bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders had close personal ties to the Brotherhood prior to September 11, 2001


Martin A.Lee
RAZOR Magazine September 2004

[seemslikeadream]

12. part 2

To understand what happened on that fateful day when terrorist strikes leveled the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon, one must revisit the turbulent changes that took place a half century earlier in the land of the sphinx. After seizing power in a 1952 military coup Egyptian Col. Gamal Abdul Nasser quickly threw prominent Communists in jail. This raised eyebrows among US cloak-and-dagger operatives who were eager to oblige when Nasser requested help in upgrading Egypt's ineffectual secret service. But the US government "found it highly impolitic to help him directly," the late CIA agent Miles Copeland acknowledged in his memoirs, The Game of Nations , so the CIA subcontracted more than a hundred German Third Reich vets, who specialized in Nazi security and interrogation techniques, to do the job.

Before long, however, US officials grew wary of Nasser, who seemed like a loose cannon on the deck of Middle Eastern politics. A fervent pan-Arab nationalist, he rebuffed American appeals to join a neutralist coalition of Third World nations that favored an independent stance during the Cold War. Non-alignment in the East-West conflict was an abomination to CIA director Allen Dulles and he bristled at Nasser’s growing stature as a charismatic leader who could galvanize Arabs and Muslims far beyond Egypt, “If that colonel of yours pushes us too far, we will break him in half,” Dulles admonished Copeland, the CIA’s man-on-the-spot in Cairo.

Copeland pondered ways to knock the pesky Nasser off his pedestal. One scheme called for slipping the Egyptian president a surreptitious dose of LSD to induce bizarre public behavior that would discredit him and tarnish his heroic image. But this wasn’t feasible. Instead of an acid hit, American spies opted for pushing “the opiate of the masses,” as Karl Marx sp famously described religion.

There were notable precedents for marshaling religious sentiment to advance America” Cold War agenda . In 1948, the fledging CIA enlisted the cooperation of the Vatican and Catholic Action, the largest Catholic lay organization in Italy, in a successful campaign to deliver the vote and vanquish left-wing parties in a hotly contested Italian election. Although Muslims have no pope or authoritative religious hierarchy, CIA strategists figured they could win over Arab hearts and minds by manipulating Islamic piety. Copeland recounts in The Game of Nations how the CIA engaged in black propaganda operations in Egypt that sought to demonstrate “Soviet ungodliness” by circulating anti-Islamic literature - including books with titles like Against the Veil and Mohammed Never Existed - while attributing its distribution to the Soviet embassy.

But cutting Nasser down to size was a much taller order than making the Soviets look like atheists. What the CIA really needed, according to Copeland was a “religious spellbinder” to alter Arab opinion and “divert the growing stream of anti-American hostility” . As Copeland recalled, “I wanted to find and groom a messiah who would start out in Egypt, and then spread his word to Africans and perhaps other Third World peoples. Our Chosen One would immunize them against false prophets,” I.e., Nasser and other non-aligned nationalist leaders.

[berni_mccoy]

7. The problem with the trade deal is that it shows why Bush won't back down

He's going to honor this trade deal even if it means political problems for his cronies in Congress. They are going to take heat from their own party and they'll have to spin-spin-spin to get out of this issue. He's created a mess that his party leaders in Congress are going to have to clean up for him.

[Nitrogenica]

5. Could the spin on this be we need allies in the war on terror?

Is that what we're headed for? Is Frist a victim of Rove?

So many questions all because I don't trust them.

Disturbing fact #1 about * is summed up in this pic. This story just distracts from this.

[PhilipShore]

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[NVMojo]

14. this was signed a few short months after he appted Snow to Treasury

as he left CSX when Carlyle Group sold it. It stinks to high heaven.