Enemy Combatant
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Sins Of The Fathers, Etc.: In Dubai-ous Battle
It's fascinating to watch the Bushco ship of state capsize and quickly begin to take water over their proposal to let the United Arab Emirates run six American shipping ports. Now, of course, we're getting the inevitable double-super-secret probation details leaked to us (I wonder by whom? And on whose "declassification" authority?). This revisionist history recounts how Admiral McGoo is supposed to have had -- all along! -- a "secret agreement" with the UAE over the ports deal, that he just finished telling us he first found out about only yesterday.
An inconvenient historical fact: In response to 9-11, this country detained over 250 UAE nationals without charge or trial. The majority of those people were still being held at the end of 2003. I'm not saying that mass detention was right or legal, but you've got to wonder about the secrecy and cronyism (not to mention the hypocrisy) of this administration, which one day hold hundreds of UAE nationals on (what can only be called) a presumption of terrorism, and shortly thereafter offers up our shipping ports to these same foreigners' less-than-trustworthy government.
But of course Bush is blind to just how closely this "business deal" of his skirts the line of treason -- hello? Whose grandfather, as a result of his "business dealings" during World War Two, was convicted of violating the Trading With The Enemy Act?
