Thursday, February 23, 2006
More Secure
First, W's gonna veto any bill that sinks the sale of port operations to financiers of Islamofascist terrorism. (And the company is connected with terrorism.) Then he knew nothing of the deal before it became a done deal. so to speak.
And now it's the Daily News, of all media, that has the story:
Of course, kowtowing to Middle Eastern oil money's the highest priority of the modern GOP establishment. Call it Bushydo.
Actually, it may be a tradeoff: Dubai is a bigtime backer of the Carlyle Group which, in turn, is a big time source of wealth for GHW Bush and, inevitably come 2009, W. Come 2009, W will finally be able to be a successful businessman -- still relying on the support of others -- as always -- for what he can't do himself.
So it's a matter of back scratching; that's what our national security is being risked for -- the Bushes' wallets.
For people like the administration, it's all about their personal wealth. The policy talk is to a great extent secondary and related to the accretion of power (power leads to wealth).
Then there's what you can call the historical overview of Bush-family "entanglement" with Islamo-oil wealth.
And Andy Borowitz puts it all in perspective:
And what the person the street thinks is here:
And now it's the Daily News, of all media, that has the story:
W aides' biz ties to Arab firm
BY MICHAEL McAULIFF
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Breaking news update: Bush shrugs off objections to port deal
WASHINGTON - The Dubai firm that won Bush administration backing to run six U.S. ports has at least two ties to the White House.
One is Treasury Secretary John Snow, whose agency heads the federal panel that signed off on the $6.8 billion sale of an English company to government-owned Dubai Ports World - giving it control of Manhattan's cruise ship terminal and Newark's container port.
Snow was chairman of the CSX rail firm that sold its own international port operations to DP World for $1.15 billion in 2004, the year after Snow left for President Bush's cabinet.
The other connection is David Sanborn, who runs DP World's European and Latin American operations and was tapped by Bush last month to head the U.S. Maritime Administration.
Of course, kowtowing to Middle Eastern oil money's the highest priority of the modern GOP establishment. Call it Bushydo.
Actually, it may be a tradeoff: Dubai is a bigtime backer of the Carlyle Group which, in turn, is a big time source of wealth for GHW Bush and, inevitably come 2009, W. Come 2009, W will finally be able to be a successful businessman -- still relying on the support of others -- as always -- for what he can't do himself.
So it's a matter of back scratching; that's what our national security is being risked for -- the Bushes' wallets.
For people like the administration, it's all about their personal wealth. The policy talk is to a great extent secondary and related to the accretion of power (power leads to wealth).
Then there's what you can call the historical overview of Bush-family "entanglement" with Islamo-oil wealth.
And Andy Borowitz puts it all in perspective:
U.S. OUTSOURCES HOMELAND SECURITY TO NORTH KOREA
Little-known Korean Firm ‘Seems Okay,’ Says Chertoff
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff raised eyebrows today by announcing that the United States would outsource all of its homeland security operations to a little-known North Korean firm called Jim Kong-Il, Inc.
Coming just days after the controversial decision to allow several major U.S. ports to be run by a company based in the United Arab Emirates, the outsourcing of the nation’s homeland security functions to an obscure company based in an Axis of Evil country struck some in Washington as ill-timed at best.
But Mr. Chertoff vigorously defended the decision in a Washington press conference this afternoon, calling Jim Kong-Il, Inc. the right firm for the job, adding, “I looked into the company and it seems okay.”
When asked exactly how thoroughly he had vetted the North Korean firm, Mr. Chertoff said, “Well, I mean, I haven’t Googled it or anything but you just have to trust me on this one.”
Almost nothing is known about the North Korean company that is about to control the U.S.’s entire homeland security apparatus, nor about its highly reclusive founder, the mercurial Jim Kong-Il.
In an official statement released today, Mr. Jim said that his company’s first official act on behalf of the U.S. would be to collect all of the nation’s nuclear fuel rods.
“It is of utmost importance that America’s nuclear fuel rods do not fall into the wrong hands,” Mr. Jim’s statement read. “Therefore, we will collect all of those fuel rods and ship them to North Korea immediately.”
And what the person the street thinks is here:
Julia Saraidaridis,
Systems Analyst
"Why not? Some of those al-Qaeda people have probably done much more research on our ports than anybody else."
Blake Greenberg,
Teaching Assistant
"Great. We'll be the laughingstock of the Muslim world once they get word of how many tons of flax we import each year."
P.R. Williams,
Dental Hygienist
"I think that we should have a little faith in these people. I mean, they were gracious enough to take Michael Jackson off our hands."
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