Thursday, February 23, 2006
Ports, Muslims, and Iraq
Congratulations, you nitwits. Your “security” president has just sold six of our ports to the United Arab Emirates.
That should have been the headline of the New York Times a few days back.
Seriously, what did this guy get elected on again? It couldn’t have been his record on security: he failed essentially every criteria the 9/11 Commission rated him on when they reviewed the security situation of the United States last year. Only 5% or so of the material coming into our ports is searched. And now the U.A.E. will be handling the cargo.
I know all the fundies out there turned out to vote a man into office so he could appoint pro-life judges, no matter how despicable of a president he was. But the fundies are only a quarter of the population and pro-lifers all told are less than half.
By now even the fiscal conservatives understand that this president isn’t a fiscal conservative. He has yet to veto a single pork-laden bill his republican congress has passed.
Remind me again what this guy stands for, what the entire Republican Party stands for. I forget.
On another subject, bad news from Iraq. Civil war threatens after militants destroyed the dome of a Sh’ite shrine. Over a hundred Sunni mosques have been attacked in retaliation. Sunnis have pulled out of government negotiations.
I share the president’s optimism that the country won’t descend into civil war. It’s too bad the CIA doesn’t. But then again, we all know the president doesn’t pay attention to data and analysis from the CIA that conflicts with his earnest, privately-held beliefs. I can only assume that God told him Iraq won’t descend into anarchy. How far away are those troop pull-outs again?
Michael Medved, always a sterling example of what is wrong with conservatives, opened his broadcast today by saying, “Today Muslims did what Muslims do best: kill each other.”
Aaaah, religious bigotry. Thank you, Mr. Medved. He argued that Christians would never kill each other like Muslims are doing in Iraq. I wonder if, during WWI and WWII, Muslims were saying the each other, “There go the Christians doing what Christians do best: kill each other.”
And there is more assorted lies from the right over at thinkprogress, the best one-stop shopping for liberal thought on the web. Tom DeLay lying blatantly about his relationship with Abramoff. I mean just ripping out a laugher. That would be, in case you’ve forgotten, Tom Delay the recently-appointed chair of the appropriations committee. That would be Tom DeLay, republican leader. Tom “The reality is, Jack Abramoff and I were not close personal friends” DeLay whereas in 1997 he was Tom “when one of my closest and dearest friends, Jack Abramoff” DeLay. One little scandal and suddenly you can’t remember his friendship, Tom?
So while Preznit Drinky is busy inventing new words like “incent” and “Great British” his people are handing over control of our ports to those Muslims, who are only really good at killing each other.
I find it endlessly amusing that, after stoking the fires of fear and xenophobia for five years, Drinky suddenly wants to convince his rabid base that not all Ay-rabs are bad Ay-rabs. Tell it to Michael Medved, Mr. President. I don’t dismiss all Muslims as violent, I just don’t want them running our ports.
Isn’t it comical? After five years of conflating Iraq with Al-Qaeda, Islam with Islamofascism, and insurgents with terrorists this president now wants us to have absolute moral clarity and a completely open mind about a company that is based in a country that was a safe haven for Al-Qaeda, that spawned two of the 9-11 hijackers, and that was a transshipment point for A.Q. Khan’s nuclear proliferation.
As they say in your home state, Mr. President, that dog won’t hunt. You even have Apartheid convinced that this is a bad idea. Orifice is saying “whoa, Nelly.” Laura Ingraham is not pleased. That’s your bigoted base, Mr. President. The editors of the Wall Street Journal just don’t represent a very big voting block, in case you didn’t know.
But the Cowboy don’t stop when the going gets tough. He’s threatened to veto congressional attempts to stall the sale.
Good luck with that one, big guy. You might be able to bend congress to your will when their electorate is too pig-ignorant of the situation to know what’s going on, as in the NSA situation, but when little old ladies in Kansas are writing Pat Roberts to ask what the Hell is going on you have an entirely different problem on your hands.
I predict a fresh, steaming helping of crow to be on the White House dinner menu in the near future.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 3:36 PM 
