Worthy News: Bush Wasn't Aware of Port Deal - Fox News

[George]

President Bush was unaware that a controversial deal to sell shipping operations at six major U.S. seaports to a United Arab Emirates-owned firm was in the works until it was approved by his administration, the White House said Wednesday.

http://www.worthynews.com/news/foxnews-com...185677,00-html/

[Marnie]

I have a feeling heads will role at the White House.

[Gerioke]

I have a feeling heads will role at the White House.

literally

[Tari]

GW must think were all pretty stupid, just throw it at us and we'll believe it by golly.

[Old Timer]

I heard tonight on Fox News that this deal was approved back in November. Now we (the public) are just learning about it.

And GW says he learned of it only a few days ago in the press like the rest of us.

So what are we to believe?

GW is out of the loop?

GW is a bit untruthful?

GW thinks we are all stupid?

All of the above?

[deadman1204]

I would say it is utterly IMPOSSIBLE that the president would not be aware that authority over major american ports were being given to foreign entities. Utter BS here.

This is a flat out lie, of course he knew.

[Giaour]

The ports were already being ran by foreign entities.

It was a business transaction between companies.

Why should the president have been notified of a business deal?

I think this is being made a big deal for nothing.

If the President would have blocked the deal, all the Bush haters would be throwing a fit saying he was a racist.

You just can't please everyone.

[Tari]

To just blow this issue off and treat it as if "oh well" there are all kinds of foreigner's running ports, is very nieve for people to do. Of coarse this administration has people trying to smooth it over and look like it's just another business transaction. There could very well be a lot of undercover corrupt issues involved here. This UAE has traces to possibly funding 9/11, terrorism, along with other suspicious activities. Now if this was a democratic administration, they would be very very persecuted for this type of transaction. This does need to be seriously investigated further, and not blown off by any means.

[Ovedya]

Ah...Pardon me...But could we all just gather those little bits and pieces of our brains that spontaneously exploded when we first heard about this news and....think for a moment?

Good, now let's examine this situation a little more closely.

First of all, just because he's "The President" doesn't mean that George W. Bush has intimate knowledge of every little thing that's going on in this country's vast and intricate inner workings. There are perhaps hundreds of separate departments under the federal government including, but not limited to, a special department entirely devoted to analyzing how many soy beans come in and go out of this country's ports daily. There's a point to the fact that there are so many differential departments and departments heads, and heads of department heads in this country; and that is simply that one man cannot control it all. In fact, it was designed so that no one man has absolute control over it all.

Now, assuming that we all understand that George W. Bush, no matter how pious he appears to some of us on television, is not God almighty, what makes any of us think that he would have known, or had to have know anything about this deal in the first place, given the fact that the UAE is our strongest - if not only - ally in the war in terror in the Middle East? If Sweden, for example, were to have bought this company, would he have had to know about it? Would he have really even cared?

Would anyone have really cared?

From what I hear in the news (Which is not much, believe me), typically deals like this go first to a governmental subcommittee that does all the research, background checks (Obviously checking with the appropriate NSA agencies), financials, etc., which then advises some muckity-muck governmental port official, who then gives the yes or no on the whole deal. So the only reason that this whole deal took from November of last year until February of this year to come out, is that between then and now, all the background checks have been conducted on our side, and all the deals have been set to allow this thing to go forward. The President wouldn't have really even had to know much about the whole thing in the first place, so long as someone in the chain of command didn't mess things up somewhere along the way.

Know what? I believe him!

I believe that the President is confident enough that the UAE is being up-front about the whole thing; and I trust the President. I trust the men and women that he's got working for him to do the right thing in the interests of this country's national security.

[Old Timer]

Ah...Pardon me...But could we all just gather those little bits and pieces of our brains that spontaneously exploded when we first heard about this news and....think for a moment?

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Know what? I believe him!

I believe that the President is confident enough that the UAE is being up-front about the whole thing; and I trust the President. I trust the men and women that he's got working for him to do the right thing in the interests of this country's national security.

Ovedya, I hope you are correct. Perhaps I am just a grumpy old man, but