If so much as a cherry bomb goes off in any of the ports--

[Arkham House]

--during the next three years, Bush will be finished. We've talked about what will be the thing that finishes him off--this scandal, that scandal. Well--he's hoist on his own petard now. These long years of anti-Arab hysteria after 9/11 are biting him on the ass, and the chickens have come home to roost. *Any* terrorism in our ports finds Moron in a position analogous to shit wiped off a shoe, whether or not it has anything to do with the UAE or not, whether strictly speaking, he "deserves" it or not, whether this deal had anything to do with it. His status now is out of his hands, and he has exposed his jugular in a very nasty way--for him, and for all of us. I find it hard to believe that *someone* won't be tempted to go for it, in a very ugly way...

[wakeme2008]

1. I would not worry about that but

UAE replacing American workers with UAE "employees" under the L-1 Visa Intra-company Transferees rules. Under L-1 they could bring in as many "employees" to work the docks as they want.

[niallmac]

2. That's my take also. This is his own personal Frankenstein.

He and Rove have spent six years digging this hole and now they are stuck in it. If they had paid attention to their literature classes in college they would have seen this theme
over and over again from Shakespeare to Shelley. But i guess they are gods and so immune from these foibles. Then they should have studied Greek Mythology.
It all been done before.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

3. Yes.

Shakespeare exposed all of this so clearly.

[Talismom]

4. I don't know...another perspective is that he couldn't have a nicer little

set-up for arranging the "crisis" that allows him to declare martial law and crown himself emperor.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

5. Maybe you're right.

But, sometimes I wonder if he isn't ready to pack up his toys and go back to the pig farm.

His handlers didn't explain to him that he might wind up being the most hated man in history.

Methinks he's not handling it all that well . . .

[Talismom]

10. I hope you're right. It would be wonderful. But I think he's right

on schedule to complete the planned "reforms". Even if he's thrown out, the thugs pulling the strings are probably ready to replace him with another puppet and continue their march. I've never really bought the incompetance line. This crowd is dumb like foxes and are sucking the life-blood out of every nation they get their hands on, including this one. It's just a non-stop horror show!

[Flabbergasted]

6. I keep wondering is this a just a business transaction. Does the UAE

have a problem with us and see this as an oppurtunity.

I wouldn't necessarily see this as the case since any involvement by them in a port strike or transport of ammunitions into the country would involve an immediate counterstrike. This would not benefit the UAE royal family. There is always room for a rogue to get in and help a package along but you'd think they would screen their labor thorougly.

Another question I have is: will their labor come from UAE or America? Since they are managing loading/unloading they would not need UAE dock workers only executives?

[Deja Q]

7. He's a judas goat.

[Maddy McCall]

8. I always scoffed at DU's tinfoil hatters. Now I think they have something

I'm now starting to believe that 9-11 was homegrown. Here's why.

George Bush knows that there have been no REAL terrorist attacks against US soil, which begs the question, "Who really sabotaged those flights and who really took down the pentagon and the towers?" If it had truly been Arab terrorists from diverse ME countries, including UAE, the president would never have seriously considered brokering a deal for UAE to run our ports.

But the president knows that, for all the fearmongering he's ushered, the Arabs AREN'T (or I should say WEREN'T) a threat, so handing the ports over to them does not endanger our port cities, or other cities for that matter. Because HE KNOWS who perpetrated 9-11, and it wasn't Arab terrorists.

Does this make sense to you? In other words, have no fear, because there should have been no fear to begin with.

[Kahuna]

9. My take is that the repukes were setting the dems up to blame..

the next attack. They've put their talking points in place. We're undermining the the war on terror they keep repeating. Bush, Cheney and all the rest have been repeating this ad naseum.