re: A UAE Ports Deal Question

Democrats are so worried about this deal, and they want the extra 45 days of scrutiny. How long has t been, two weeks since Al Gore went over to Saudi Arabia and said that Bush was playing into Al-Qaeda's hands? Because the worst thing we could do was cut off friendship and mutual understanding between Saudi Arabia / Arab countries.

Gore also said that we were rounding up Arabs, and we were holding them without charges, and without lawyers for indeterminate periods of time. He was ginning up all this hate for his own country on the basis of the way we treat Arabs. Now his own party is engaging in a similar type activity. Basically saying we can't trust these people, this is too big a risk, this is symptomatic of the Bush administration's problem with lack of openness, too much secrecy going on.

So where do we stand Al Gore and the Democrats? You can't have it both ways.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are a significant number of members of Congress who do not know that it's the Chinese Communists who own extensive port operations on the left coast and both the Pacific and Atlantic entrances to the Panama Canal.