Every Time I Turn Around...
I mean, CHRIST, Warren Ellis couldn't script anything like all this!
Bush riled up his fan base with that whole war on terror - color coded and everything, then makes deals with the very people he's told them to be suspicious of.
Interesting.
Arab Co., White House Had Secret Agreement
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...
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. Outside legal experts said such obligations are routinely attached to U.S. approvals of foreign sales in other industries.
Bush riled up his fan base with that whole war on terror - color coded and everything, then makes deals with the very people he's told them to be suspicious of.
Interesting.
by MG at 9:42 PM
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WTF?!?
I can't believe this at all. I actually wanted to believe that the UAE was a willing partner in the war on terror, and even thought Bush might have actually been right for once that the opposition to this contract was just an overreaction.
However, I'd say this info of a secret agreement without even the standard safeguards, coupled with the revelation that the UAE royal family has actually been known by our CIA to have hung out with Bin Laden, I don't think it's been an overreaction at all.
Shit, now I wouldn't be surprised if Bush just got a PDB last week that said "Bin Laden determined to smuggle nukes through ports following Dubai Ports World contract."
This is just stupid crazy.
Moxie,
How come you didn't include this part:
""They're not lax but they're not draconian," said James Lewis, a former U.S. official who worked on such agreements. "
In other words, it's pretty standard.
It does seem to be "pretty standard" for this administration. Of course, since most of their "pretty standard" actions are bordering on treason, I think this one warrants further scrutiny as well.
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The Dubai deal pragmatically makes sense. The folks running these companies have a vested interest in not fucking up, and this level of contractor is truly multinational. And increasingly, the shipping and cargo infrastructure business is dominated by companies based in and around the gulf. So, again, on a purely pragmatic level, the deal makes a certain amount of sense. (Why you wouldn't want a US or Dutch company to do it, we can only guess.)
But, on the other hand...what the fuck?!??!!
Is Bush that fucking politically retarded? Either we are realpolitik, or we are democracy on the march in the Middle East. This deal doesn't jibe with all the airy fairy, Christian flakey horseshit rhetoric that Bush and his little yellow bus cronies have been flogging since 2001.
Once again, Bush looks like a ideologically promiscuous mongoloid, without a single genuine conviction.
Could this be an attempt to capture votes in November? The right wings have a pretty good record of sacrificing their people for political advancement. Is it Bush's turn? He really has nowhere to go to from here, except cutting down more trees in Crawford 'cause he really can't make much of living giving great speeches.
Cheers,
Jessifu
It is a bit difficult to award the contract to an American company when no American companies bid for the contract.
Yeah, c'mon Halliburton, how did you miss that one?
Robert: "It is a bit difficult to award the contract to an American company when no American companies bid for the contract."
Haliburton must be overstretching its assets. Or, more plausibly, they didn't see a get-rich-quick way of dealing with the contract.
I'd agree with you, but it appears that no American companies were aware of the contract. Hell, the Preznit wasn't aware of the contract until after it was signed. Rumsfeld, who sits in a position to approve these contracts, wasn't aware of it until last weekend; again, after it was signed.
The more I hear about this deal, the more it stinks. I'm trying to be pragmatic about it, but there are factors to it that aren't making me comfortable at all.
A deal like this to have gone unknown by the top guys in office due to their reliance in a 'comitee' that makes such desicions...Bullshit!
Seeing as everyone is crying to high hell about how many dangers this could potentially bring your country, it is very unrealistic to imagine 'plausible deniability' on this issue.
Somewhere, sometime, we will all see the man behind the curtain rear their ugly selves.
Sure, maybe the UAE has been been cooperative in Bush's crusade against the arab world - but they also funded the 911 project; how can anyone in their right mind, realisticly agree with something like this.
Moreso, why were there no American bids? Did no company, repeat - no company of American origin have an interest in this? it would be great to have some investigation into that fact before this deal was approved, because the way things are spilling out - your nation was indeeed highjacked, and now it is being slowly dismantled, err - sorry 'outsourced' for practical reasons...
It is long past due that this president should be throw out of office, and his cronies with him.
If this were a time of muskets and horses - bet on the fact that people would be revolting against this madman. Why aren't people looking at getting rid of Bush?
Everything he has done, has stripped away civil liberties, hurt the middle class and poor of your country, and generally taken away what has made your antion great - democracy is now a joke around the world, fighting terrorism is the new crusade (when convenient for their agenda). It's sickening!
Wasn't it written somewhere:
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore."
Whatever happenned to the American dream?
This perverted, twisted, inferior mindset of the neocon agenda is just putting the pieces in place to finally achieve an age old plan for supremacy and domination accross the globe.
When Bush finally finishes tanking your economy, and ruining your healthcare; who do you think is going to there to bail out the American people? FEMA - no, that's been proven.
DHS - Not unless hell freezes over.
My thoughts...
Watch for the EU reaction's to a nuclear invasion of Iran. After the US is attacked, let's face it - this opens the door to make a mass scale attack on US soil imminent, there will be no more resources available to get your country out of the funk they were taken into by Bush and Co.
It sounds far fetched, but the 4th reich is in power, and is acheiving where their predecessors have failed. They are close to control of all of Europe, and if and when that happens - don't be surprised when they turn their attention to North America.
The Chinese and Russia are in waiting, Isreal is pressing for action against Iran, and the EU is in the background waiting to watch this all unfold.
God I hope I am way off, but something leads me to believe completely, that ll of us will see and witness, unimagainable events down the road of our futures.
If we make it another 10 years without seeing Martial law declared due to something massive, I will be incredibly surprised.
If I was a citizen of your country, I would be pushing for impeachment, or war crimes being brought against Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld. The whole lot of them are simply puppets of a larger scale agenda, and beleive it or not, your country - and it's democracy have been stolen from you whilst you sleep.
apologies; had to double post - it's a different topic, but an important one.
Check out the following link, if you can watch some of these documentaries and decide for yourself if the world was truly at war with terrorism pre-911.
http://villagevoice.com/news/0608,murphy,72254,6.html
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore."
This does not mean to come here illegaly.
Expect to work, drive, gain all the rights of bonafide Americans by breaking laws.
There is not an American Company that owns these ports now. I don't know for sure, but i don't think thee is an American company who owns a US port. That has to be wrong, as there are many, but the largest ones are foreign owned.
There aren't any security concerns here. Security will remain as it exists today.
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