http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/022206.html

I’m not sure sure what you’re talking about. I have seen enough of how
this Admin operates to make speculation less of an art and more of a
science. There is ample proof of idiocy and incompetence to assume
this is more of the same. If you want to call it prejudice, sobeit.

Think about it.

“Who s to say that some mid-level office jockey in Dubai won t get a peek at some of our port security lapses and pass  em on to his jihadi buddies in Ohio or Iran?”

Or some office jockey in Britain or Baltimore or Sheboygan. Are you aware that we have sold modern, high tech F-16 fighters to the UAE. Those fighters have classified gear aboard. That was a previous Admin.

How about this little item:

“Following several years of reconciliation efforts, Iran and the United Arab Emirates are again embroiled in military tensions. The UAE navy has captured an Iranian fishing boat used by Teheran intelligence operatives to spy on U.S. military installations in the emirates. Arab intelligence sources said Iran has been monitoring U.S. naval and other military assets in Gulf Cooperation Council states amid fears of an American attack on Iranian nuclear installations. ”

Hm, yet becasue of their ethnicity ypou would deny them the opportunity to enacta fairly bid and won contratc that had previously been won and performed by another foreign firm.

BW,

Still a large % of the pro-Bush right disagrees with Bush on this (Hannity for example). It is to Rush’s credit that he is thinking clearly and they are not.

Dugger

Who’s to say that some mid-level office jockey in Dubai won’t get a peek at some of our port security lapses and pass ‘em on to his jihadi buddies in Ohio or Iran? I don’t think any Arab country or company should be involved, in any shape or form, in running any port. If that’s racist, so be it.

Prejudice is, as the name implies, the process of “pre-judging” something. In general, it implies coming to a judgment on the subject before learning where the preponderance of the evidence actually lies, or formation of a judgement without direct or actual experience. Holding a politically unpopular view is not in itself prejudice, and not all politically popular views are free of prejudice. …

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudice

Then there are the excuse makers…………….’nuff said.

http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2006/02/23/the-uae-port-deal-i-support-it/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060223-123441-8908r.htm

We go to war with a country that DID NOT have 9/11 ties, but we turn over one the most vulernable points of entry on our home soil to a foreign power that DOES have confirmed 9/11 ties?

JK

Take off the tinfoil hats. Put down the Kool Aid and breath a few times into a paper bag. There

Now your BIG BAD SECRET DEAL mega-Bushaburton McChimpie conspiracy is actually a standard clause in many contracts like this.

Count Dugger, Woooo kids. Dangerous Ay-rabs managing select port operations! That scares me. Woooooo.

A couple of quotes from the article that you apparently missed …

“They’re not lax but they’re not draconian,” said James Lewis, a former U.S. official who worked on such agreements. If White House officials negotiating the deal had predicted the firestorm of criticism over it, “they might have made them sound harder.”

“The conditions over the sale of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. were detailed in U.S. documents marked “confidential.” Such records are regularly guarded as trade secrets, and it is highly unusual for them to be made public.”

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration secretly required a company in the United Arab Emirates to cooperate with future U.S. investigations before approving its takeover of operations at six American ports, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. It chose not to impose other, routine restrictions.
As part of the $6.8 billion purchase, state-owned Dubai Ports World agreed to reveal records on demand about “foreign operational direction” of its business at U.S. ports, the documents said. Those records broadly include details about the design, maintenance or operation of ports and equipment.

“The administration did not require Dubai Ports to keep copies of business records on U.S. soil, where they would be subject to court orders”.

“It also did not require the company to designate an American citizen to accommodate U.S. government requests.”

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060223/ap_on_go_pr_wh/ports_security

It could be a little difficult to monitor them with this arrangement. I still don’t like this deal the more I find out about it. But it seems that the Bush Administration is determined to fight both Congress and the American people to keep it that way.

Frank to Oliver, this post:
“Suddenly we re worried about Arabs, Oliver? It is to laugh.
The UAE wants to take over a company  a British company that was already running the ports. They don t want to move next door to you, and drive down property values.”

Sounds like an accusation of racism to me.

Go back to thinkprogress and get some new talking points. Oliver has already used yours here.