Don't Worry?

CNN:
Bush: 'People don't need to worry about security'...regarding the UAE port deal.

Let me get this straight. The federal terror alert system has been in place for 1,469 days...zero, that's right, ZERO of which have been at terror alert level Green or Blue. Yet, somehow, we don't need to worry about our security?

Now remember, the Coast Guard is still responsible for securing out ports. However, a fair estimate is that only 5% of all containers shipped into this country are inspected. Now we are handing over these ports to the UAE, where two of the 9/11 terrorists originated from, and a country that is lukewarm on democracy..at best?

There is a clinical term for Bush's mental state: retarded.

Doug makes a great point over at his blog, Hey Jenny Slater:
"But here's the thing: While I don't think this deal is an automatic disaster, there are clearly some security issues that need to be addressed. You've got people all over the country decrying this deal as a security risk; if the deal is really such a fantastic idea, why not do an investigation, make sure everything checks out, put their fears to rest? Why not indeed: A 1993 law mandates a 45-day investigation in cases like the one we're talking about -- and not only has this investigation not occurred, nobody in the Bush administration even knows why it didn't occur."

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"If it turns out that this deal has some kind of tie back into Halliburton or KBR or some other company that Bush and/or Cheney has family ties to -- and at this point, I would not be at all averse to laying some money that it does -- then I don't see how anyone can say this isn't some impeachment-worthy shit. The thing is, I really hope Democrats and lefty bloggers can figure out a way to make this case without jumping on the Republicans' OMG they're Arabs so it must be bad!!11!!1! bandwagon. Let the Repubs and wingnuts tear themselves to pieces over the fact that they're Arabs; the real issue here, the one that the Democrats need to take the lead on, is that Bush seems to be in a real hurry to get this thing passed without the necessary investigations and seems prepared to use what, for him, has been a nuclear option if anyone stands in his way."