Dubai ports deal

I cannot find any news stories on it but listening to Coast To Coast last night I heard that the Dubai port company had imported some ceramic carbon items to Iran from China that are used in the production of nuclear materials. SOmething that I believe is prohibited by the U.N.

This whole thing has really made me mad. Granted, to speak truthfully and logically a port company is not in charge of security. It is the governing country. Granted, what difference is there between having a foreign U.K. company versus a foreign Middle Eastern company handle the ports? (Let's ignore the argument that the U.K. has been our biggest ally in anything since the 1900s and that the people who flew planes into our stuff were not M.E.s.) A non-home-based company wouldn't have as much interest in national security as one based in the country they inport stuff to.

But ignoring the fact that a foreign country already controls most of our ports. I want to vent about the fact that through the Patriot Act and other actions the government has removed a lot of our freedoms in the name of security. Go on an airplane and get searched ten ways to sunday. If they don't make it mandatory that everyone gets searched then they can't search likely muslims because "That is profiling." So 80-year-olds and 7 year olds gets the same scrutiny as the next likely Atta or or Moussaei.

And our security does matter depending on who controls our ports. I trust a U.K. company well over trusting one from a country that would more likely bring in terrorist and perform smuggling operations.

And Mr. Bush, whom I voted for, who said would protect us, who would take all security measures possible. Well he wants this deal to go through fast and without scrutiny. (This from a company that may have sneaked nuclear weapons manufacturing material to Iran!)

I'm not one to take the evil rich republican "people lied" mentality. But Bushy has gone way overboard in his policy making. He has put huge restrictions on the American citizens and doesn't care what happens with businesses as long as he and his group make money hand over fist.

Oh, yes, even his own party has turned on him with this fiasco. Rep Jerry Lewis. Republican of California has put an ammendment to a spending bill that kills the Dubai port deal. The spending bill is one designed by, or created for Bush in that it funds Hurrican relief and also funds the war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is why Bush wants new line item veto powers. He wants to be able to remove small pieces of legislation like the the dubai port killer and leave his baby intact so he can fund the war and katrina and keep his legacy intact.

Oh, yes. To stir the pot more. Hillary Clinton has been a big opponent of the Dubai deal. Doing everything she could to trash Bush. But guess what? Her husband helped in every way possible with political clout to bring the deal to a pass.

If it passes. I doubt it would hurt our security all that much. You don't need a port to offload a speed boat on some inhabited coast and walk the nuke into America. Our southern border is so porus we can't keep out 8 million illegals. But if they want to push for a billion other regulations for the American public than a few companies can also suffer.