A friend e-mails, concerning the ports controversy: Anyway, something that’s bugged me in Michelle Malkin’s posts on this has been her hang-up on the “sukuk.” For example, in this post she says, “The supporters of, and retreaters on, the…

Politics makes strange bedfellows. United States Senator Barbara Boxer of California (a Democrat) is in bed with

Now, keeping in mind Bush’s tepid response to the Cartoon Jihad, when one objectively analyzes his reaction to the ports-facilities deal resistors, one must admit that the contrast between his two responses is as stark as that between night and day:

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I have a negative opinion on the Dubai Port World deal. It’s not an informed opinion. I’m not conversant in international finance or security. All I can do is to speculate rather aimlessly which is actually my red-wench, armchair pu…

….I am still not convinced about the efficacy of the Bush Administration’s jack-in-the-box-like ports deal with Dubai Ports World (a United Arab Emirates company [tm]).

This comes a little later than “tomorrow,” but I won’t be able to sleep (any…

Bush needs to really get off his ass and fix the ports deal. On the surface, it sounds ok: “We’re going to control security! Besides, UK-based companies ran the ports for ages and we never had a problem!” There are…

There are many good reasons why the UAE should come under a great deal more scrutiny than it has to date. So even though this issue is stirred up a hornet’s nest in Congress, with threatened vetoes and overrides being traded between Congress and the Wh…

Sorry about all the fuss with the takeover of our ports by an oil sheikdom with ties to 9/11, Karl. It’s just that you’re spinning a little too fast, it’s making us dizzy, and we need a minute to catch…

At least Michelle is sane – I am really beginning to wonder about some of the conservatives out there. It’s like they are clicking their heels three times and convincing themselves that the port idea is actually a good one – NOT!
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For the first time in years both Republicans and Democrats have come together in agreement. The Bush administration has given the UAE company the thumbs up to control U.S. ports and this is outrageous. Bush and his administration did this clandes…

In a Fox News report from the Associated Press their are concerns that Bin Laden may have UAE ties. “The United States raised concerns with the United Arab Emirates seven years ago about possible ties between officials in that country and Usama bin…

I do not approve of the UAE deal and believe this is just an open portal deal that Al-Qaeda et al are waiting for. It involves 21 ports, not 6 as originally reported. I am concerned about the reports that Bush did not know until later. Were that true…

Kudos to Michelle Malkin for comprehensively covering the Ports’ Deal imbroglio and sticking to her guns even in the wake of her blog being hacked and her receipt of a customary plethora of hate mail.

Michelle Malkin argues that the CFIUS process is a “rubber stamp” and complains about the fact that financing for the Dubai Ports World acquisition of P&O was underwritten by Barclay’s and Dubai Islamic Bank, which were “both cited as probable conduits…

Michelle Malkin captures both, the immediate political aspect of this debate when she asks “whether the decision process was thorough and free from conflicts of interest”, a question, Michelle deals with in great detail, and the aspect of our National …