BREAKING: Coast Guard Sounded Alarms Over Dubai Ports Deal
BREAKING: Coast Guard Sounded Alarms Over Dubai Ports Deal
At today’s White House press briefing, Scott McClellan sought to assure the American public that the UAE’s ties to terrorism had been addressed prior to the ports deal:
This was a transaction that was closely scrutinized by national security experts who are involved in these decisions and by our intelligence community. The intelligence community provided an assessment. The Department of Homeland Security also worked to make sure any national security concerns were addressed, by entering into an agreement with the company and requiring some additional security assurances before it moved forward. But this was a consensus of all the relevant departments and agencies — there are some 12 altogether — that are part of that Committee on Foreign Investment.
But Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) today released an unclassified version of a document showing that the U.S. Coast Guard — located in the Department of Homeland Security — “cautioned the Bush administration that it was unable to determine whether a United Arab Emirates-owned company might support terrorist operations.” From the document:
There are many intelligence gaps, concerning the potential for DPW or P&O assets to support terrorist operations, that precludes an overall threat assessment of the potential merger. … The breadth of the intelligence gaps also infer potential unknown threats against a large number of potential vulnerabilities.
The Bush administration’s defense of the deal continues to unravel.
UPDATE: Here is the Coast Guard memo.
UPDATE: VIDEO
CNN: Now when this report — part of the report was released, Chairwoman Susan Collins said she was very concerned about what it showed. Take a listen.
COLLINS: On the face of it, these unclassified questions and the use of the word “intelligence gaps” that proclude an overall threat assessment of the potential merger and that it involves “potential unknown threats against a large number of potential vulnerabilities.” That language is very troubling to me.
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What are the priorities here, unbelievable, isn’t it?
February 27th, 2006 at 4:35 pmI’m really shocked and disappointed our government would jeopardize our security like this and lie about it.
February 27th, 2006 at 4:37 pmAs a former merchant marine officer, I’ll vouch for the Coasties, after all, they were the ones who managed to cover Chertoff and Brownies butts in New Orleans.
February 27th, 2006 at 4:38 pmThose Coast Guardies are a bunch of liberalcommiepinko racists.
February 27th, 2006 at 4:42 pmMan you guys are fast.
This just happened.
February 27th, 2006 at 4:45 pmCritics say the outcry over the £3.9bn acquisition of P&O by Dubai Ports World, which will transfer the running of five US ports to a state-controlled Middle Eastern company, has exposed the US Congress at its xenophobic worst. But it has also revealed more starkly than ever the protectionist tide that is waxing in America under the guise of national security.
In the UK, in the cash-rich Gulf states and in fast-growing India, different incidents in the past week have made people ask the same question: is it worth doing business with the US?
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/analysis_and_features/article347680.ece
February 27th, 2006 at 4:46 pmIt is amazing to see the depth that the Bush administration has sold us out for cash and cronism. They will sacrifice security and American lives for their benefit and that of whatever big corporation pays their price.
Impeachment is too good for these guys. Criminal trials are more appropriate.
February 27th, 2006 at 4:48 pmExactly. Does really somebody think that because an English company is about to be taken over by a Dubai based and state owned company (and let’s not forget, we are talking here about managing a port!) now they will send over ships full of terrorists and arms of mass destruction (at least then we could find them)?
February 27th, 2006 at 4:50 pmArab businessmen have expressed their concern. The Egyptian billionaire investor Naguib Sawiris says Arabs would be tempted to look away from the US for asset acquisitions, for investment opportunities and for business contracts.
And a country that had a trade deficit of $726bn (£415bn) last year can ill afford the “paranoia” about inward investment and foreign trade exposed by the DP World furore, adds Mr Reinsch.
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/analysis_and_features/article347680.ece
February 27th, 2006 at 4:52 pmMan you guys are fast.
This just happened.
Think Progress gets the info up right away…. judging by past standards, the main stream media will report on this story next Tuesday (if at all).
February 27th, 2006 at 4:52 pmTwo comments. Some guy on the radio today who was with the Merchant Marines was BLASTING this deal. Can anyone explain what that org. is?
Secondly, anyone want to offer an O/U on number of CG officers canned by Wednesday for this “aiding of the terrorists”??? 3? 4?
February 27th, 2006 at 4:53 pmProtectionism has already won some significant victories. Last year, the Hong Kong-based oil company Cnooc blamed “unprecedented political opposition” in the US for its decision to abandon a $18.5bn bid for the Californian oil firm Unocal – what would have been the biggest Chinese takeover of a US company.
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/analysis_and_features/article347680.ece
February 27th, 2006 at 4:53 pmFormer CIA analyst a and presidential advisor Ray McGovern does not rule out Western involvement in this week’s Askariya mosque bombing in light of previous false flag operations that have advanced hidden agendas of the ruling elite.
February 27th, 2006 at 4:54 pmAcross the world, friends and free traders are concerned about the course set by the US. They say that while its motives are diverse – national security, energy supply concerns, the protection of investors – there is a single conclusion: it has become riskier, costlier and harder to do business with the US and, unless that changes, fewer people will want to.
February 27th, 2006 at 4:57 pmMerchant Marine are sailors and officers of U.S.commercial shipping. They are licensed and regulated under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Coast Guard.
February 27th, 2006 at 4:58 pmNow lets see the Bushbots try to defend their master. The more I learn about this deal, the less I like it. Corporate fest from the Bush administration over national security. What a suprise.
February 27th, 2006 at 5:00 pm[...] ThinkProgress has it. The proof was provided by Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). [...]
February 27th, 2006 at 5:02 pmhttp://news.independent.co.uk/business/analysis_and_features/article347680.ece
read this
February 27th, 2006 at 5:02 pm#14 – What’s your point??
I would prefer to see us stop running around the world sticking our noses in everyone elses business. If we were to stop giving those billions of dollars worth of aid to other countries and invested it in ours, we would be much better off and in a better position to negotiate with the world.
We can’t afford to continue to keep tossin money around like it is water. We need to straighten our country out before we try to fix someone other country.
February 27th, 2006 at 5:03 pmPresident Bush may not like the arguments that critics are raising against the Dubai company attempting to take over cargo and cruise operations at ports in six U.S. cities. But he should recognize them. The arguments marshaled against Bush closely echoed the ones he deployed to defend the Iraq war.
The president, in other words, is stewing in a pot he brought to boil.
At the core of Bush’s case for invading Iraq was the contention that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks changed the burden of proof in evaluating potential threats. Bush justified the war, despite inconclusive intelligence about whether Iraqi President Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, largely on the grounds that after Sept. 11, waiting for definitive evidence of danger was itself too risky.
NOW CATCH 22 read below …what ya gonna do
Setting sail away from America: The world finds it’s too hard to do business with the US
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/analysis_and_features/article347680.ece
February 27th, 2006 at 5:09 pmI do hope it “unravels”. But I think there is way too much money involved to shelf it. They are buying time to “negoiate” with congress and “after extensive review, we see no reason to block this purchase”.
February 27th, 2006 at 5:11 pm#19 my point is 20
its catch 22
personally i would not sell the ports as in 20 Bushes reason above but with * trillion deficit and 600 billion a year in the red and nobody doing business with America ..
thats the catch 22
read the article at the bottom of #20
February 27th, 2006 at 5:12 pmBush doesn’t care about arguments for or against the ports deal, just as he doesn’t care if people are catching onto his lies in advance of invading Iraq–I mean, who is ever going to hold him or his gang of criminals accountable?
February 27th, 2006 at 5:13 pm#19 I also aggree with you
#19 my point is 20
its catch 22
personally i would not sell the ports as in #20 Bushes reason above but with * trillion deficit and 600 billion a year in the red and nobody doing business with America ..
thats the catch 22
read the article at the bottom of #20
February 27th, 2006 at 5:15 pm#22 – Theres not really a problem…… We export much of the food that is consumed by the world. They can’t afford to shut us out.
Besides, I would prefer to see us stop running around the world sticking our noses in everyone elses business. If we were to stop giving those billions of dollars worth of aid to other countries and invested it in ours, we would be much better off and in a better position to negotiate with the world.
We can’t afford to continue to keep tossin money around like it is water. We need to straighten our country out before we try to fix someone other country.
February 27th, 2006 at 5:15 pmForgive me if this has been mentioned before, but if I were the Dubai Ports people and this deal fell through, I would sue (somebody, some entity) into oblivion.
February 27th, 2006 at 5:24 pm#26–they’ve already threatened to….
February 27th, 2006 at 5:28 pmThe point is that you do not have to be an isolationist/protectionist, nor do you have to be a xenophobe/racist to oppose this deal. The UAE has many ties to terrorism and nuclear proliferation and giving it control of our major ports seems stupid and the Coast Guard confirmed it. There are plenty of Republicans who have broken with Bush on this, but it would be nice to see a more unified voice of opposition from the Democrats and the left blogsphere. The last poll I saw suggested 83% of Americans did not want the deal to go forward without more scrutiny. If the left decides to splinter on this issue than it should face up to the fact that it will not be anything more than an extremist viewpoint at least during my lifetime. Remeber if it was not for Nader we would not be living through this nightmare. And we have not seen the worst of it yetas Dumbya has 2+ more years to ruin this country and Alito and Roberts could be on the Court for 25. I do not want to even guess how many dead and maimed soldiers we will have in Iraq by January 20, 2009
February 27th, 2006 at 5:28 pmwhen, tell me when, has anyone (any politician), ever, if at all, if at all possible, on any occasion
HAS EVER TOLD ANYONE THE TRUTH IN PUBLIC?
what do you say we make it a law that all politicians have to tell the truth when addressing the public, or in congress. just that, simple, tell a lie, go to jail. It might give us a class of politico’s unrecognizeable to us today. We sure won’t get any of the ones we have back, as they are all liars.
let’s change that, whaddya say?
February 27th, 2006 at 5:29 pmWhy does the number of ports in question continue to be published as 6? The concept of 6 U.S. ports being sold under the radar to the UAE already had citizens and senators in an uproar; but the last reports I’ve heard amended that to… “Did we say 6? We meant 21 ports.” (See http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060223-051657-4981r
February 27th, 2006 at 5:31 pmI’ve been offline for three days, but unless another revelation has kicked that one to the sidelines, we need to watch this language as the story keeps giving.
Wall Street Journal, 2/23/06
February 27th, 2006 at 5:35 pm“In Ports Furor, A Clash over Dubai,†Spindle, Bill, et al;
“…according to sanctions experts and numerous U.S. court and regulatory cases, Iran uses Dubai to evade U.S. economic sanctions on Iran and other Middle Eastern countries. The U.A.E. doesn’t recognize those sanctions.
“Iranian front companies in Dubai routinely obtain prohibited U.S. goods, federal court records show. In one undercover investigation by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency that resulted in a November 2005 guilty plea in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the representative of an Iranian front company was caught on tape assuring an undercover agent posing as a businessman not to worry about sanctions regulations.
“’You are going to export to Dubai, which does not have any regulations. It’s a free, uh, country for importing, exporting,’ said Khalid Mahmood, according to his guilty plea. Asked if the equipment would then be shipped to Iran, Mr. Mahmood replied, ‘Once it comes here, we’ll ship it anywhere in the world, no problems.’†[p. A12]
“No problems†indeed.
Always click the link. The story is an AP story I saw on Yahoo. The report which Sen. Collins displayed was undated.
February 27th, 2006 at 5:38 pmMore info,please.
wonder. If. maybe. Bush will allow the media pundits to photgraph Rovers political coffin?
then.pause.echo.answer
F’ Rover in his ‘reality base’
ergo
Rove Who?
Kachunngggggggg!!!! Goeth thy Grim Krapper!!
bels toll for yellow sycophants
Aye indeed.
February 27th, 2006 at 5:38 pmThe most telling aspect of this whole piece is that it is a member of the GOP with the revelation.
Abandon ship!
February 27th, 2006 at 5:42 pmOnce again, Chimpy and his cronies get caught in a huge whopper of a LIE.
Anybody who still supports the Chimpy regime is either an idiot or a crook.
February 27th, 2006 at 5:45 pm.
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February 27th, 2006 at 5:49 pm.
TAKE BACK AMERICA, the STREETS… NOW
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I think the sadest part of all this is the fact that the GOP will feed America some answer to “justify” this….and even worse those Americans that are too stupid to have a mind of their own will eat it up and blame liberals…or Clinton(because they always find a way)….I have one question…for now anyway…will they be flying American Flags over these ports?
February 27th, 2006 at 5:57 pmSen. Carl Levin says the wording in this port deal is such that the Dubai company would not just manage, but own these ports. What do I have wrong here? Something, I hope.
February 27th, 2006 at 6:06 pmLIES LIES LIES
President Bush may not like the arguments that critics are raising against the Dubai company attempting to take over cargo and cruise operations at ports in six U.S. cities. But he should recognize them. The arguments marshaled against Bush closely echoed the ones he deployed to defend the Iraq war.
The president, in other words, is stewing in a pot he brought to boil.
At the core of Bush’s case for invading Iraq was the contention that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks changed the burden of proof in evaluating potential threats. Bush justified the war, despite inconclusive intelligence about whether Iraqi President Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, largely on the grounds that after Sept. 11, waiting for definitive evidence of danger was itself too risky
February 27th, 2006 at 6:08 pmAt the core of Bush’s case for invading Iraq was the contention that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks changed the burden of proof in evaluating potential threats. Bush justified the war, despite inconclusive intelligence about whether Iraqi President Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, largely on the grounds that after Sept. 11, waiting for definitive evidence of danger was itself too risky THE LIE
February 27th, 2006 at 6:09 pmDid Frist flip so fast on the port deal because he wants to get back into Bush’s good graces? There could be a V.P. spot opening up soon:
February 27th, 2006 at 6:16 pmhttp://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/cheney3.htm
monkey nut case. look guy, you are repeating the same stuff over & over.
Let me tell you about some of your stuff.
When China tried to by Unocal, it was 86′d. That’s because the company that tried to buy it is wholly owned by the Chinese Communist Party. Unocal/76 is a BIG company out here. They own alot of tracts. It IS in our interest not to let a foriegn company own our crude. Because, they are going to be battleing us for that same oil one of these days. Why make it easier for them to sink us?
The port deal – yea, here again, the Government Owned company had secret deals with bushco to not keep any records on US soil, or maintain US employees to contact. How ar you going to supena papers from a soverign entity? You can’t.
Yea, they SHOULD be looking elsewhere for investment. bushco has screwed the whole system so that right now extraction & defense companies rule the roost here in the US. Maybe we aren’t so attractive an investment, so, let ‘em go buy china for all I care.
February 27th, 2006 at 6:20 pmThe shrub claimed not to know about this deal so he could deny that he had heard about the Coast Guards finding a lack of national security for the deal.
The man is one of the most dangerous men in the world – and -they are holding a trial for Saddam?.
February 27th, 2006 at 6:24 pmThe claims of “racism” and “xenophobia” are smokescreens, and are just ignorant.
February 27th, 2006 at 6:26 pmIt’s NOT ABOUT being “racist” or “xenophopic” or “isolationalist”. The UAE has PROVEN ties to slavery and terrorism, and got caught RED HANDED shipping nuclear material around at the behest of AQ Kahn, period. These ARE NOT the kind of allies we should have nor need.
Stopping this Dubai deal will throw a wrench into Bushie’s plan to help Al Qaeda smuggle WMDs into this country by way of their allies the UAE. That would in turn interfere with plans for another 9/11-like attack that will boost Bushie’s support from the public and Congress for more dictatorial powers.
February 27th, 2006 at 6:31 pmTROJAN HORSE
Surely to god, we have all read the myth of the Trojan Horse. It seems that Bush is putting all his efforts into making that story a reality.
What will be next? When the UAE company is shown to have strong Al Queda, Bin Laden connections, what will Bush do?
Will he abruptly confess to the country that he has an Islamic rather than Christian agenda?
or
Will he suddenly suggest that Osama Bin Laden had nothing to do with 911 and has been working as a covert agent of the CIA and a friendly colleague of Valerie Plame all along?
Indeed, many of us are coming to believe that Bush reads the conspiracy theories and tries to make them come to pass – and then claim that they were only conspiracy theories
February 27th, 2006 at 6:32 pmGee, where are the trolls?
February 27th, 2006 at 6:45 pm#42, Kindness, what about BP? They are a foreign company owning a lot of US oil… That straw man aside, it will be interesting to see which dogs stay in the port hunt which were also in the Unocal hunt – here are some of the baying hounds on Unocal. To play devil’s advocate for a minute, what would happen if Hugo Chavez threw the US nationals out of Venezuela under the argument of ‘national security’?
February 27th, 2006 at 6:52 pmIronic isn’t it, that we invaded Iraq out of xenophobia?
February 27th, 2006 at 7:10 pm#45 – “Stopping this Dubai deal will throw a wrench into Bushie’s plan to help Al Qaeda smuggle WMDs into this country by way of their allies the UAE. That would in turn interfere with plans for another 9/11-like attack that will boost Bushie’s support from the public and Congress for more dictatorial powers.” -Comment by Rick — Feb 27, 2006
*****Veeeerrrry clever of you, Rick…. Hmmmmm, however did you unravel the dastardly conspiracy???? But in the event any sane people question your argument, cop a plea with a “temporary insanity” defense.
February 27th, 2006 at 7:26 pmDo you think this is blackmail on the part of DPW? Do they know so much about Bush/Carlyle/Snow and his CSX/Sanborn, the former CSX guy, who is now Bush appointee to Maritime transportation, that the potential explosion is worth all this scrambling at the White House?
February 27th, 2006 at 7:26 pmThe WH thought this was a done deal and got caught flat-footed — their explanations now are too lame and unbelievable.
It’s hard to reconcile the self-appointed “national security” president pushing so hard for a deal with an Arab federation, unless there is something far greater underneath all this that we don’t know.
When are the rightwingers going to acknowledge that the Bush administration does not care about America’s security?
Bush/Cheney were in charge when 9/11 occurred, you idiots! 3,000 people died, and you voted for them on security! Great security, 3,000 people died! What were you thinking?
February 27th, 2006 at 7:33 pmI’m sure we’ll hear someday that the Coast Guard’s document was just an historical document and not a wraning, just like we did with Rice on the August 6th PDB preceeding 9/11.
February 27th, 2006 at 7:34 pmMarie, not blackmail, but more of the corporate payoff for years of Bush-Saudi-UAE cronyism. As you’ll see, it goes back a long way….
1. Bush’s Harken Energy Turned A Profit For Him, Thanks To UAE Bank Bailout
http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/02/24/ports_controversy/index.html
2. UAE gave $1 million to Bush library
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3681451.html
3. Arab Co., White House Had Unusual Secret Agreement
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5640688,00.html
4. Neil Bush Received Funding From UAE Investors
http://www.bushwatch.net/bush.htm#world
5. Dubain Gvt. Invested $8Bil In Bush-Connected Carlyle
http://www.bushwatch.net/bush.htm#world
6. Cheney Energy Task Force Included Dubai in Iraq Oil Sweepstakes
February 27th, 2006 at 7:51 pmhttp://www.judicialwatch.org/071703.b_pr.shtml
But in the event any sane people question your argument, cop a plea with a “temporary insanity†defense.
Comment by mighty aphrodite — February 27, 2006 @ 7:26 pm
I’m sure that in the San Diego criminal court you have a recording so you can phone it in by now…………
February 27th, 2006 at 7:53 pm#54, TtT
February 27th, 2006 at 8:18 pmThanks for the links.
Lots to read there and I believe I have read some of them before, but there is so much corruption, so many lies, so many scandals and connections, that I am finding it hard to keep everything fresh in my mind — it’s always helpful to re-read some things about which I have forgotten the details.
“many intelligence gaps” in our government?
I’m shocked.
February 27th, 2006 at 8:24 pmDuh! Any one remember this doozy:
“Bin Laden, prepared to attack in the United States.”
One month before 9/11!!
Hell, Katrina was only about 10 days of warning.
What the hell? Clueless ( and dangerous ) administration.
February 27th, 2006 at 8:30 pmShhhhh Clif – The poor thing might actually think such a legal maneuver as the insanity defense is viable….come to think of it…in his case….. hmmmmm…
February 27th, 2006 at 8:37 pmThe Coast Guard are more intelligent than the Bush Regime, but they are being ignored on the UAE dirty deal agreement to take over the East Coast port operations! Sad but true!
February 27th, 2006 at 8:44 pmThis isn’t just an issue with Security. This is an issue about Corruption. I say this because I was in a family for more than 26 years who joined Organized Crime only this wasn’t any Ordinary Crime System. This includes Very Wide Scale Political Corruption which you’re reading about daily in the news.
Every Corruption system requires a method to wash the dirty money as that way the thief can use it. When a Corruption System is large in size, washing criminal money requires something on the order of a Criminal Laundromat! However I personally know about a Mammoth Sized Corruption Laundromat and you’re going to be surprised to learn who is behind it.
Tribune Article from a little while ago:
Just who is building Mandarin?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0510020321oct02,1,4790705.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Look Who’s Talking?
http://www.modernagent.com/x/modernagent/visitor/resources/editorial.cds?n=6039
Selling our Ports is all about Political Corruption! Look at who owns Dubai!
February 27th, 2006 at 9:00 pmThe poor thing might actually think such a legal maneuver as the insanity defense is viable….come to think of it…in his case….. hmmmmm…
Comment by mighty aphrodite — February 27, 2006 @ 8:37 pm
Who Bush, Cheney, Delay, Noe, Doolittle, or all of them?
February 27th, 2006 at 9:30 pmSusan Collins is an intelligent person with integrity.
Unlike the other Republican hamsters in Congress, who are good pets of the Bush administration, and want their belly’s rubbed…and their food put into their cages on time.
The hamster Republicans have come up with a plan to hold a sham 45-day investigation…and then go ahead and let Bush decide. But, wait, Bush has already decided. This is exactly like the Iraq War Resolution. Bush had already decided, long ago apparently, to attack Iraq. So, the Iraq War Resolution was just a sham, too.
Similarly today, Bush desperately needs, for some unknown reason, for this “free trade” deal with the UAE to take effect. Desperately needs it, in fact, so much so, that he is willing to use the first veto of his administration against some rebellious hamster Republicans in Congress.
Hmmmm, so why is Bush so adamant about this “free trade” deal with the UAE? And why now???
Could it be tied into another “free trade” deal he recently established with UAE’s next door neighbor, the Sultanate of Oman.
But why these two neighboring Arab nations? And why now???
Oh, look at where these two neighboring Arab nations are located. They both share the peninsula that makes up the south side of the Strait of Hormuz, through which much of the world’s oil passes.
Aaaah. So if some insane person were about to start a war with Iran, this person would solidify the support of these two Arab nations, through one means or another…like a highly prized Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. and maybe a “free trade” U.S. port deal.
Then, the U.S. military would have a staging area on the south side of the Strait of Hormuz, opposite the Iranians on the north side. D-Day and the allied Normandy invasion during World War II comes to mind, in which a beachhead was established on continental Europe.
If I were a military strategist, therefore, who was told to prepare for war with Iran, I’d definitely want a beachhead on the Iranian side of the Strait of Hormuz, to better protect the oil tanker shipping lanes through the strait. Which would require a staging area…preferably land-based, like the staging area in England before D-Day.
Thus, getting the cooperation of these two neighboring Arab nations located at the Strait of Hormuz would be absolutely essential in any forthcoming “axis of evil” Iranian War.
This is what I believe is behind what the Bush Oil Gang are doing.
And the key to knowing if war with Iran is going to happen is if the Bush Oil Gang asks, no, demands an Iran War Resolution from the hamster Republicans in Congress sometime in mid-March.
Then, we will know for certain that Bush is going to attack Iran. No ifs, no ands, no buttinskis gettng in their way.
Of course, I might be wrong.
The Bush Oil Gang might just decide to start dropping bombs on the Iranian nuclear sites without any Iran War Resolution, or any warning whatsoever, thus precipitating a full-scale war that will sweep across the Middle East and will probably lead to a Hezbollah-backed terrorist attack inside the United States.
And the hamster Republicans will sit idly by, eating their nuts, and will allow this horror to happen.
February 28th, 2006 at 12:10 amFollow the money back to Carlyle.I believe that a ***damned piece of paper has provisions against elected officials profiting from contract activities.Do the bush boys stand to inherit daddy’s estate?Tax free?This is prosecuted as conflict of interest.When is somebody going to do something about this blatant corruption?That camel’s back was broken way back when but I know when I tried to fight city hall.the tricks they pull are devastating.Look at Stanley Hilton and the grief he has had.
February 28th, 2006 at 6:32 amHeard on C-Span this morning that Bushite Senator John Warner of Va. did a flip flop on his former disapproval of the port deal…
…after talking with criminal Bushite junta traitors in the administration…
…Warner now supports the deal because…
…UAE owns trillions in US treasury notes and businesses…
…we’re being blackmailed folks!
February 28th, 2006 at 9:29 am[...] Think Progress – BREAKING: Coast Guard Sounded Alarms Over Dubai Ports Deal [...]
February 28th, 2006 at 1:06 pm[...] The coast guard told investigators that there was a large number of intelligence gaps, potential unknown threats, and potential vulnerabilities. coast+guarddubaidubai+portsdubai+ports+worldbush [...]
March 1st, 2006 at 1:24 am[...] Last week, it was revealed that the U.S. Coast Guard had warned of “many intelligence gaps” concerning the potential for Dubai Ports World “to support terrorist operations” if it assumed control of U.S. ports. [...]
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ABOLISH EXECUTIVE ORDER 10834
ONE NATION UNDER GOD INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL NOT FOR JUST THOSE WHOM CAN AFFORD IT.
I got jury duty in Mojave Ca. On my jury form it asked. Have your civil rights been restored? I desided I had to ask a question to the staff member at the court. I stated that I have a state letter from Assembley member Bill Maze Ca. and a military judge advocate Michael L. Borg found on the web. you can locate it by going to yahoo, search then type in the words ( Get the gold fringe off my flag, Michael L. Borg ) if this dose not work then try this type in this on the web task bar I think it might work.
( http://www.vfwofwi.com/Apr04page%203pdf#search=Michael%20L%20Borg%2C%20Get%20That%20Gold%20Fringe%20Off20My%20Flag )
I also have a statment from the wonderfull City Of Palmdale, California that was recieved by my self that states that The wonderfull Mayor of Palmdale has removed the gold fringe flags from all of palmdale after he was informed about the meaning of the gold fringe flag infrount of 3 wonderfull buss loads of FINE MILITARY that had just came home from over seas after there tour of duty the town and military were asked to explain how these wonderfull bunch of military had searved there country so well only to return home and be exposed of the disonisty and deseat that this government had perpertrated apon them ever since according to the state and military judges records since 1959 that the gold fringe on the U.S.A. Flag mutilates the flag and suspends the constution by meany accords and that it caries a one year prison term when flown by any one other than alloted by the president himself and that when gold fringe is added to the flag renders all civilian courts as military courts. let me inform all that of witch I was taught and if I am wrong my GOD forgive me I was told this by teachers and vets all my life that the red, white, and blue flag by old tridisional flag standards said The Flaf should never have placed upon it. Nor on any part of it,Nor attached to it any mark, insignia, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature. now let me ask a few questions WHAT PART OF THAT DONT MY GOVERNMENT UNDERSTAND? dOSENT IT SAY DESIGN? THAT MEANS FRINGE. THAT MEANS BUSH CAN NOT WRIGHT ON THE FLAG ITHER AS HE IS SHOWN IN A PICTURE ON THE BETSY ROSS WEB SITE. I also might add that if a person gets caught burning the flag in this country he suffers no fines or penilties because this Liberal government call that freedom of speach but if I ask a question about the state letter and military judges statments that are on the web about mutilation of the flag and suspends the constitution I get told by the judge in Mojave that I am in contempt of court even if I am polite in asking the question? who is this government accountable to any way? my red white and blue flag takes second fiddle to no other flag. And if I can not get fair press on this matter or fair and adiquet justice or representation. I love my country and I love my flag. And I deserve a explination in wrighting along with a appoligie to every vet for what this government is doing to the men and wimon whom have served us so well. This will not go away untill this government stops lying to the American people. People please dont vote for any government people that display gold fringe flags. in there offices or courts or any other place in America. Get informed! you are informed. My understanding of the differance betwean the U.C.M.J. AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW IS THAT UNDER U.C.M.J. = UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW IS THAT UNDER U.C.M.J. YOU ARE GUILTY UNTILL PROVEN INOSENT UNLIKE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW YOU ARE INOSENT UNTILL PROVEN GUILTY.
ONE NATION UNDER GOD INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL NOT FOR JUST THOSE WHOM CAN AFFORD IT.
July 22nd, 2006 at 4:49 amALL RIGHTS RESERVED
RESERVED UCC1-207
ABOLISH EXECUTIVE ORDE 10834
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