A recent news editorial suggested that the (now defunct) ports deal with the Arab Emirates is like the proverbial tale of the farmer letting the fox guard the henhouse starring that country bumpkin George W. Bush.
Bush, in another of a long list of staggering blunders, tried to run blind into a sales deal involving six U.S. ports with an Arab Emirates company centered in Dubai completely unaware of whether or not the Arab Emirates-owned company might be supportive of terrorism. Well, what do you expect of a guy who appeared on TV news asininely strumming a guitar in front of a bunch of bedraggled Katrina hurricane survivors; he looked like the modern equivalent of Nero fiddling while Rome burned. Now, according to biblical scholars, the world will not go down a second time in water (through a category 5 hurricane, a tsunami or a world-wide deluge); it will be “the fire next time,” as the Bible puts it. This could indicate a nuclear holocaust. This country alone certainly seems to be going down in metaphorical flames, but it could also go down in literal flames. If Bush blissfully through oversight allowed a corner of the U.S. to go down in water, why wouldn’t he allow it to go down in flames through a nuclear holocaust?
Bush was even planning on using money for defense to fund this deal. Honestly, it gives the sensible individual standing in helpless horror pause to think: it isn’t a matter of “if” but “when” will this fool at the helm of the country try again to compromise the security of this nation to the detriment of all? Furthermore, knowing Republicans, Bush was probably planning to siphon money from social programs to help fund the deal.
ABC news recently reported that the U.S. Coast Guard warned Bush that they could not tell whether or not the Arab Emirates company supported terrorism. Bush apparently didn’t care whether or not this company was supporting terrorism; he didn’t seem to care that he started chasing after the wrong crazy Arab instead of the one who actually attacked the World Trade Center.
He keeps fatuously hollering against all reason that he’s unified Iraq despite all of the dead bodies that have fallen by the wayside ever since he declared: “Mission accomplished.” Reportedly, both political parties had a very dim view of this specious deal; although blistering under the baleful bipartisan gaze of Congress, the Bush administration resisted a demand for a 45-day investigation of the possible looming security dangers connected with this deal with the devil.
Some Republican senators conceded that the concern over security risks to the country through this ports deal made them uncomfortable, but what did they expect?
Former President Bill Clinton along with New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer and others attempted to draft a bill that would prevent companies controlled by foreign governments from gaining power over U.S. ports.
It looks like Bush, in this ports deal with the Arab Emirates, was trying to make a flimsy attempt at appeasement; however, history shows that the last time that was attempted by a national leader, it was Adolf Hitler whom the leader was trying to appease. CNN recently reported the stunning fact that a chairman of Israel’s most prominent shipping titan backed the Emirates deal although the Arab Emirates opposes Israel.
If Bush wasn’t such a silly ass, the observer could say he’s the Antichrist casting a spell of delusion over the world.