The new U.S. port deal: the latest example that Bush is clueless
I am not even going to bother to provide links and researched facts on this one. Instead, I'm just going to riff.
George W. Bush is so completely clueless. There's a deal that his administration made to have a company owned by an Arab government take over control of some our major ports. I am not going to take a position here on whether this is a good idea. Instead, I am going to point out that Bush's seeming disbelief over the reaction to this deal proves once again that he is a clueless moron.
Stream of consciousness time...Bush has built almost his entire Presidency and agenda on fighting terrorists. How many times has he said "this post 9-11 world?" And the 9-11 terrorists were Arab. Osama is Arab. Al Qaeda was and is a primarily Arab organization. Saddam Hussein was in league with Al Qaeda, and, by the way, he is Arab. We are in Iraq so "we can fight the terrorists there instead of here." Iraq is an Arab nation. Thus, we are fighting Arabs in an Arab country so we don't have to fight Arabs in the USA. Homeland Security has become oh so important to Bush in this post 9-11 world. That's why we need the Patriot Act. That's why we need warrantless wiretaps--to catch Al Qaeda terrorists, which is to say "Arab terrorists."
Do I really need to go on?
Our ports are key to our homeland security, Bush has spent years saying we are at war with Arabs (not all Arabs, but Arabs nonetheless), and now he is all bent out of shape because people are upset over the fact that he wants an Arab state-owned business in charge of our major ports.
What the hell did he expect?
What a dumbass.
Bush--and all of the other neocon dumbasses--are apparently incapable of comprehending possible consequences beyond a few weeks.
I have to stop before I go into an apoplectic rage.
Stream of consciousness time...Bush has built almost his entire Presidency and agenda on fighting terrorists. How many times has he said "this post 9-11 world?" And the 9-11 terrorists were Arab. Osama is Arab. Al Qaeda was and is a primarily Arab organization. Saddam Hussein was in league with Al Qaeda, and, by the way, he is Arab. We are in Iraq so "we can fight the terrorists there instead of here." Iraq is an Arab nation. Thus, we are fighting Arabs in an Arab country so we don't have to fight Arabs in the USA. Homeland Security has become oh so important to Bush in this post 9-11 world. That's why we need the Patriot Act. That's why we need warrantless wiretaps--to catch Al Qaeda terrorists, which is to say "Arab terrorists."
Do I really need to go on?
Our ports are key to our homeland security, Bush has spent years saying we are at war with Arabs (not all Arabs, but Arabs nonetheless), and now he is all bent out of shape because people are upset over the fact that he wants an Arab state-owned business in charge of our major ports.
What the hell did he expect?
What a dumbass.
Bush--and all of the other neocon dumbasses--are apparently incapable of comprehending possible consequences beyond a few weeks.
I have to stop before I go into an apoplectic rage.
posted by WCharles @ 2/23/2006 12:20:00 AM
1 Comments:
Your affirmative action and DOL comments would be funny even if you were not in HR. :-) However, the sad thing is that the point about discriminating against Arabs is a valid one to a degree. Indeed, it is one Bush his ownself is using. As he said, he is trying to do diplomacy here. Two problems are that he is about four years late in trying diplomacy and because of what he has done for the past four years, these "diplomatic" efforts are not likely to succeed. Yet another problem is that Bush has once again left us with no good choices. If the deal is squashed, that will further damage our image in the Arab world (making diplomacy even harder). If the deal goes through, there are legitimate concerns about Homeland security at our potentially most vulnerable points.
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