Some say the Dubai furor is a false alarm. Maybe so. BUT---

[Jackpine Radical]

this story is really scuttling the Puggies on national defense.

Rasmussen is now polling Dems ahead of Puggies on national defense.

Maybe it doesn't matter that a company owned by friends of Bin Laden now runs our port security. Maybe it doesn't matter that the Bushies sold us out to their Gulf friends.

Maybe the Emir of Dubai really has our best interests at heart.

Even if all that were true, you're never gonna convince Joe Sixpack of it, and Bush and Rush the Tush are gonna go down because they've spent five years demonizing Arabs & now they're giving control of the orifices in our national body to people who hang out with Bin Laden. In case you missed it, back in about 1999 an airstrike against B-L was called off because the Royal Family of Dubai was visiting him.

If I were a Dem, I would see that there is no upside for us to meekly accepting this takeover--but it's all upside if we keep pointing out the Bush-Harken-Snow-Arab-Carlyle etc. connections.

I don't care if, in some idealistic sense, this is the wrong cause for us to win on. It's pragmatically a cause we CAN win on, so I say GO FOR IT!!

[Time for change]

1. I agree, it's very important to keep pointing this out

And I don't believe that it is wrong to do that either.

It shows that the Bush administration knows that their whole "war on terror" is a fraud, and they were just hoping that nobody would notice this.

[EVDebs]

2. The Ptech (Saudi firm w/FAA-NAS computer access) template

Check out www.madcowprod.com archives for stories on Ptech and Indira Singh, the whistleblower on this. Insider info and wargames during 9-11...