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The officials tried to assure the panel that the deal has been subject
\n to a careful, three-month review and that all security questions were
\n satisfied. They said no one raised an issue that would have prompted
\n the need for a further, 45-day investigation.<\/p>\n
"We’re not aware of a single national security concern raised recently
\n that was not part of" the three-month review, Deputy Treasury Secretary
\n Robert Kimmitt told the lawmakers.<\/p>\n
"They have been critical allies in Afghanistan," she told reporters
\n at a news conference on a separate matter. "They have been critical
\n allies in fighting the financial war against terror. They’ve been critical
\n allies in terms of our military-to-military relationship."<\/p>\n
from AP News<\/a><\/p>\n Wow, we had no idea that the UAE has been such a key ally to the United Before that, the seven Sheikdom We feel that they make marvelous partners in the war against terrorism, We do wonder, however, how the Dubai Ports World administration will And These giant container ports have long been recognized as the weak link The takeaway line from this and the previous story is that there is Unfortunately, we also believe them when they say the State of Israel The officials tried to assure the panel that the deal has been subject to a careful, three-month review and that all security questions were satisfied. They said no one raised an issue that would have prompted the need for a … Continue reading
\n States lately, veritable soul mates in the fight for freedom, justice
\n and
\n the American Way. According to Wikipedia<\/a>,
\n they have been staunch friends of the United States during the entirety
\n of their long history as a nation,
\n which stretches back all of 35 years.<\/p>\n
\n States <\/a>of the Persian Gulf
\n coast granted the United Kingdom control of their defense and foreign
\n affairs in nineteenth-century treaties, so they have a long-standing historical
\n precedent of trading privileges for their hereditary elite for protection
\n from a world
\n superpower.<\/p>\n
\n despite their complete lack of democratic institutions, religious freedom
\n and individual rights. As the current US administration can testify,
\n these things aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.<\/p>\n
\n handle it when they have to process quantities of containers coming
\n in from Israel, a country whose existence they refuse to acknowledge.<\/p>\n
\n suppose, just for the sake of argument, that those Emirs actually
\n took us seriously and organized real elections. Is there any reason to
\n believe that the local branch of the Muslim Brotherhood would NOT win?
\n Would they not then own Dubai Ports World and inherit this valid contract
\n to run our biggest ports? Luckily, real elections in the UAE is a problem we probably won’t have to face for many, many years.<\/p>\n
\n in our efforts to keep Weapons of Mass Destruction OUT of the United
\n States. What a great, globalized way to deal with that problem – by turning
\n them over to a stable, long-time ally who shares all of the values and
\n traditions that make this the greatest country in the world.<\/p>\n
\n something devastatingly transparent in Islamic culture, and we had better
\n take
\n these guys at
\n their word.
\n We believe them when they say they are our allies in the war on terror,
\n and that they hate Al Queda, because of course Al Queda hates them, considering
\n them spineless lackeys of the Oil Lords and Imperialists, and has officially
\n declared that their first order of business, after the Islamic Revolution,
\n is going to be to march all those Emirs and Sheiks out behind the Casbah
\n and introduce them to the business end of an AK-47.<\/p>\n
\n has no right to exist and should be driven into the sea, and that the foreign
\n workers should give up their passports when they enter the country,
\n and that women have no place in public or political life. But heck, any
\n friend of Dubya’s is a friend of us all.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"