Please give me all the ties from UAE to Bush

[southernleftylady]

thank you :)

[Roland99]

1. How about this?

The UAE is heavily invested in the Carlyle Group

Carlyle Principals
http://www.hereinreality.com/carlyle.html


Carlyle Group bought CSX several years ago

John Snow (current Secretary of the Treasury) was Chairman of CSX when it sold its own international port operations to DP World for $1.15 billion in 2004, the year after Snow left for President Bush’s cabinet. (http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/393375p-333478c.html)

John Snow is the Chairman for the Committee on Foreign Investment which made the decision to allow DP World to manage port operations for several major US ports

Dave Sanborn was a top executive at DP World and was just appointed as Maritime Administrator (http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Bush_nominated_executive_from_Dubai_port_0221.html))

Open “free trade” with UAE
http://www.davidsirota.com/2006/02/dirty-little-secret-behind-uae-port.html

The Bush administration is in the middle of a two-year push to ink a corporate-backed “free” trade accord with the UAE. At the end of 2004, in fact, it was Bush Trade Representative Robert Zoellick who proudly boasted of his trip to the UAE to begin negotiating the deal. Rejecting this deal might have set back that trade pact. Accepting it - regardless of the security consequences - likely greases the wheels for the pact. That’s probably why instead of backing off the deal, President Bush - supposedly Mr. Tough on National Secuirty - took the extraordinary step of threatening to use the first veto of his entire presidency to protect the UAE’s interests. Because he knows protecting those interetsts - regardless of the security implications for America - is integral to the “free” trade agenda all of his corporate supporters are demanding.

Robert Bruce Zoellick (born July 25, 1953) is the current United States Deputy Secretary of State. Before his present position, he served as United States Trade Representative from February 7, 2001 until February 22, 2005.

Also a member of the PNAC.


March 2004

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

Pres. Bush (2004)

I will never hand over America's security decisions to foreign leaders and international bodies that do not have America's interests at heart.

Lou Dobbs video
http://www.canofun.com/blog/videos/2006/BUSHUAETies.asx

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

2. I posted a thread on Salon's article this morning:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2478407&mesg_id=2478407

[southernleftylady]

3. thanks yall :)