How Can He Be So Obtuse?

Republicans wanted a mentally challenged George W. Bush to be president so strongly that twice they perpetrated massive fraud to make it so. And now the idiot is saying he’s “concerned” about the message the failed Dubai deal is sending to “friends“ in the Middle East. Dear President Mousebrains: You are the one who created this mess. You are the one who wanted to sell our ports to a country that aided and abetted the 9/11 hijackers. You are the cheerleader for a sale to a country that refuses to recognize a US friend, Israel. It was you who hysterically started screaming threats to veto attempts to block the Dubai deal after which you said you didn’t know anything about the deal. You and your felonious family (George H. Walker, GHWBush, Neil, Jeb and Marvin) are the ones who have been doing dirty, double-speak, double-cross deals in the Middle East for over a hundred years. And now, it was bound to happen. The guys who would rather enrich US corporations with money from 9/11 co-conspirators than to keep the US safe, are revving up the old scare tactics. Senator John W. Warner, (R-VA) chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in an interview that the failed Dubai deal is going to put our friendships with Arab countries to the test. No, Senator Warner. If anything is putting our friendship with Arab countries to the test it is you and your money-grubbing fellow Repubs who tried to broker a deal with a duplicitous Arab nation against all warnings. Oh, and by the way, these wonderful friends of the US have now engaged in blatant blackmail. The New York Times reported this morning, “In its statement on Thursday announcing the decision, DP World referred to an understanding that it ‘will not suffer economic loss,’ leading some Wall Street analysts to suggest that the United States government intended to compensate DP World financially for any difference between its high purchase price and a potentially low resale value.” The NYT article went on to say, “Company spokesmen have repeatedly declined to clarify whether DP World's pledge to "transfer" the leases to a "United States entity" meant a complete sale or some alternative structure like a trust or subsidiary based in the United States that would allow DP World to retain some ties to the terminals. A Treasury Department official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the confidentiality of the government's talks, said the department expected an outright sale.” Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) released a letter to President Bush questioning the term "transfer." Schumer’s letter said, “I am very concerned that the legal structure of the U.S. entity will not have a sufficient wall between the company and the Dubai government." Once again, the Republicans have rolled around in a huge manure pile and now are looking around with shock and disdain saying, “Who farted?”