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BUSH DIGS IN

By Michelle Malkin • February 21, 2006 03:50 PM

President Bush said Tuesday that the deal allowing an Arab company to take over six major U.S. seaports should go forward and that he would veto any congressional effort to stop it.

“After careful review by our government, I believe the transaction ought to go forward,” Bush told reporters who had traveled with him on Air Force One to Washington. “I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a Great British company. I am trying to conduct foreign policy now by saying to the people of the world, `We’ll treat you fairly.’”

More from Bloomberg News.

Bush says it would “send the wrong message” to the UAE if the deal is delayed. What about the message it sends to Americans who are simply asking for greater assurances that the transfer was reviewed thoroughly by officials without conflicts of interest?

Allah Pundit, less tactful, e-mails: “Has he lost his damned mind?”

Reader Brian L.:

He says he’ll veto any congressional effort to stop the deal. Now, he decides to veto something. Not Campaign Finance Reform. Not immense pork barrel spending.

I’d call his bluff if I were a leader in Congress.

Forwarded from a friend who received a note from a congressional staffer:

Well we know what to add to bills that we want the President to veto now.

And Day by Day cartoonist Chris Muir weighs in on Bush’s plea to accept the deal “on faith:”

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