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(story<\/a>) “Democrats on Saturday accused President George W. Bush of being casual with national security as they warned of risks from an Arab state-owned company gaining control of terminals at six key U.S. ports.” They sent New Jersey governor Jon Corzine out there to do the Democratic weekly radio address. He “urged Bush to pose tough questions during a delay of Dubai Ports World\u2019s $6.8 billion acquisition of P&amp;O, even as a top White House official said there was no need to re-open the government\u2019s review. ‘We cannot afford to let this administration be stubborn in their mistakes and casual about our security,\u2019 Corzine said. ‘Every homeland security expert identifies protecting our nation\u2019s ports as one of our greatest unmet security challenges.'” He also had this to say.<\/line>CORZINE: Dangerous men, tainted blood money, and nuclear technology have moved across UAE borders. The Bush administration said they\u2019ve looked at the translation and that the public shouldn\u2019t worry.<\/line>RUSH: Okay, so UAE money is blood money. Now, I think he\u2019s talking about money that\u2019s been laundered through there by hijackers and other terrorists and so forth when he says, “dangerous men, tainted blood money, and nuclear technology have moved across UAE borders.” He\u2019s trying to imply an association between the sheiks that run the UAE and these dangerous men and tainted blood money. Yesterday on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, Senator Joe Biden, Delaware, was the guest. Wallace said, “Is that the Democrat position, that no matter what the Emirates have done since 9\/11 as an alley on the war on terror that this is a country of dangerous men and tainted blood money?”<\/line>BIDEN: Well, the answer is, the Democratic Party is concerned about this, but I could have closed my eyes and thought that was Peter King, the Republican leader of the subcommittee on that point. He\u2019s saying the same thing. You have a whole lot of people saying the same thing.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: No, they\u2019re not. Now, King is being critical of the deal, but he\u2019s not being critical of President Bush. And he came to Bush\u2019s defense yesterday on Meet the Press, really tearing into Tim Russert when Russert continued to portray this as the UAE and this company buying the ports and running security, which they\u2019re not doing. American interests, government interests, mostly, will continue to own the ports. Later on the roundtable on Fox News Sunday, Charles Krauthammer said this to Juan Williams. “If you heard the address by Corzine yesterday, it was not about generalities, it was about Arabs in charge of port security, and he painted the UAE as a country which was a enemy country, which it\u2019s not, and that\u2019s where the demagoguery comes in and that\u2019s where they\u2019re jeopardizing America\u2019s position among all of these very small countries. We don\u2019t have a lot of allies in the Arab world,” and Williams responds.<\/line>WILLIAMS: Who were the first fearmongers in terms of American politics around here? I would say the Republicans and the Bush administration. It\u2019s just that the fear mongering has now changed because the people on the — in the Congress are worried about their midterm elections.<\/line>KRAUTHAMMER: Bush warns us about Al-Qaeda, which is a real threat. The Democrats warned us about UAE, which is not, and that\u2019s why it\u2019s demagoguery.<\/line>RUSH: And he\u2019s right about this. The Democrats opposition to this is not principled, as we discussed last week. Their opposition is purely political and it\u2019s the latest effort, the latest opportunity that they think they have to take Bush out, which seems to be their primary interest. And I would — there\u2019s somewhere — I didn\u2019t even bother saving it, I was reading somewhere today where basically it was a story that Bush is unpopular in this state and that state and I finished reading this, and I said, “Yep, I guess I got to renounce my support for Bush in the 2008 election.” He\u2019s not on the ballot. Now, I know that this business of trying to go after Bush is aimed at the 2006 elections, but it still is just nothing new from the Democrats. Their opposition to this is based purely on demagoguing the whole thing, out there saying that they\u2019re going to be in charge of port security and blood money and tainted men, dangerous men, tainted blood money and this sort of thing. It is interesting politically and we\u2019ll just have to wait to see how this develops, but I think I sort of have an idea, and it is this, that the Democrats have gone as far as they can, actually haven\u2019t. I\u2019ve got a story in the stack today about their efforts to get a special prosecutor like Pat Fitzgerald appointed to handle the NSA spying story. So they\u2019re not letting go of that. So while they refuse to see an enemy anywhere in the war on terror or in Iraq, all of a sudden the UAE has become the enemy. Now, politically that\u2019s one foot over the cliff again, which seems to be the constant position the Democrats put themselves in.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

“The Bush administration said yesterday it will grant a request by the Dubai port outfit for an additional 45-day review of its contested takeover of terminal operations at six major US ports. DP World said that it was seeking further review in order to allay US lawmakers\u2019 national security concerns about handing management of these terminals to a company owned by the government of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Upon receipt of the new notification, the Committee On Foreign Investment in the US will promptly initiate the review process and fulfill DPW\u2019s request for a full investigation. Bush national security advisor Steve Hadley said on CNN\u2019s Late Edition it was clear that members of Congress needed more time to understand and review the deal.” Well, just so you understand, members of Congress, particularly on the Democrat side, are not just content with a 45-day extension in order to investigate this. As you will hear soon from New York Senator Chuck Schumer, they want to take over the whole process of authorizing such things. They\u2019re moving the goalpost. Schumer\u2019s legislation not only calls for the 45-day review, but gives Congress the final say. Congress doesn\u2019t have that power. The executive does. He was on Good Morning America today, and Charlie Gibson said, “The Arab company at the center of this story is asking for a fuller investigation, a more complete investigation to clear up any security questions, but that may not be the last word on this. So joining us is New York Senator Charles Schumer who\u2019s been a strong critic of this. We have a 45-day truce, senator?”<\/line>SCHUMER: Well, I\u2019m not sure we have a truce. Our legislation, which is bipartisan, five Democrats, five Republicans — we\u2019ll introduce it today on the floor of the Senate — says do the 45-day review. That\u2019s necessary. But it also says give Congress, not just the president, the findings, and let Congress have an opportunity, 30 days to disapprove the deal. That\u2019s what\u2019s needed because the president has already decided.<\/line>RUSH: Now, so the president\u2019s already decided, and Schumer wants Congress to have power to nix what the president\u2019s decision is. We have a separation-of-powers battle going on here. It\u2019s an attempt to weaken the president. This happens all the time, but it\u2019s happened since the founding of country. These battles for power that the Congress has always made against the executive are nothing new. This one is timed to coordinate with massive public opinion on this that indicates most people are with Schumer and those who don\u2019t want to allow the deal to be approved. Next question from Gibson, “Well, is there an element of racism in all of this? Because foreign interests already control more than 30% of the port facilities in this country anyway, so is your opposition to this just because this is a Middle Eastern group?”<\/line>SCHUMER: Absolutely not. The opposition stems from the fact that the UAE, the United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is part, has had a relationship, a nexus, with terrorism. Money is laundered by bin Laden and other groups through their banks, or has been. The nuclear weapons that the Pakistani doctor, A. Q. Khan sent through, was through Dubai, was one of three countries to recognize the Taliban. Charles, if this were Chechnya, if this were East Timor, non-Arab countries with a connection with terrorism, the same kind of nexus, we\u2019d have the same ferocity in America to have a full review and put homeland security first.<\/line>RUSH: Okay, so Schumer — of course I don\u2019t expect him to admit that it\u2019s racism and xenophobia, but he expressly denies that racism, i.e., the fact that this is an Arab country and an Arab company has anything at all to do with his opposition. But in the very next answer here he says he\u2019s worried about infiltration by Al-Qaeda. Charlie Gibson says, “Look, most national security experts I\u2019ve seen quoted say, ‘Look, we don\u2019t have a better friend in the Middle East cooperating with us on the war on terror than the UAE.'”<\/line><\/p>\n

SCHUMER: Well, since 9\/11 the UAE has been a lot better but the real issue here is infiltration. In other words, even if the top of the Dubai ports world who is actually the leader of the United Arab Emirates because the nation controls the company, even if he were a hundred percent, what about infiltration?<\/line>RUSH: Well, infiltration by whom? He\u2019s denying racism, but let me explain to you, not to cover old ground, but I know some of you are upset with me for the sarcasm taken in opening monolog of today\u2019s program, and I\u2019m accustomed to members of the audience being upset with me. This has been the case with several issues in the past: the Perot candidacy, NAFTA, just to name a couple. I think that there is really principled opposition to this. Forget the Democrats. I\u2019m not even talking about them now. I\u2019m talking about the opponents of this deal that would be considered associates or friends of mine or like-minded people. I think there are really two parts to that. I think there\u2019s some principled opposition to this by people on genuine national security concerns, and I\u2019m not trying to pick a fight with them. But I also think that there are some people out there who are just reactionary protectionists, who just on general principle here are opposed to it, and it\u2019s those people that I have a quarrel with and have ever since NAFTA and — well, even prior to that.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>I think what\u2019s going on here actually is tunnel vision. The Democrats for four years have been trying to make the case we don\u2019t have an enemy. They have opposed the war on terror. They have opposed the war in Iraq, even after they voted for it, they tried to pretend like they were snookered, tricked, and lied to. “Bush lied, Bush lied us into war, none of this is necessary, haven\u2019t captured bin Laden, we don\u2019t need these torture chambers.” Ted Kennedy says that Abu Ghraib is no different than when Saddam ran it, it\u2019s just under new management. The NSA spying scandal, we gotta stop that. To sum it up, they have been waging an effort to make it practically impossible to wage war against this enemy, the terrorist enemy. And that\u2019s where the tunnel vision comes in. In the process, they have not accomplished what they wanted to accomplish. They wanted to accomplish turning the people of this country into an anti-war population with the Democrats on top of that large, hoped-for constituency. They were trying to redo what they did in the latter days of Vietnam. They have McGovernized. Well, they never have un-McGovernized themselves. So they tried to rebirth the McGovern era, and it didn\u2019t work. What happened was that they came under even more scrutiny by the American people, and polls indicated that more and more Americans simply would not trust the Democrats with this nation\u2019s national security. They live in a post-9\/11 world. The Democrats are trying to create a pre-9\/11 world. <\/line>Then all of a sudden Cheney goes hunting, shoots Harry Whittington, and the Democrats, oh, they get all riled up. Folks, it\u2019s just like they\u2019re having orgasms out there. And then that didn\u2019t work because Whittington didn\u2019t die. If Whittington died we\u2019d still be talking about that and we wouldn\u2019t be onto the ports deal yet. But Whittington survived, Whittington lived, and he\u2019s going to be happily ever after. So here comes the port deal. And the Democrats immediately saw an opportunity to get themselves on the other side of the national security debate. Where they have failed to turn the country into a population of anti-war citizens, they now, “We gotta get back on the other side of this debate.” And all their advisors from the Carvilles to the Begalas say, “We\u2019ve gotta find a way to–” Hillary\u2019s been out there, “You\u2019ve gotta find a way to get us on the right side of this, they\u2019re killing us on the security debate.” So here comes this deal, and it\u2019s just an opportunity that they can\u2019t even wait to analyze and think, because it gives them an opportunity to be against Arabs. And of course Arabs are terrorists. And it puts the ports deal in question. And the ports, that\u2019s the one area of the Democrats, with the Kerry campaign, were going on and on and on about in the 2004 presidential campaign. Kerry kept saying we only inspect 5% of the incoming cargo; it\u2019s an outrage in a post-9\/11 world. So they reacted with glee and with pure emotion without thinking about it, and so since there is no political ground to be gained by getting involved in the Westinghouse sale to Toshiba, which will result in nuclear power plants being built in China via US technology. There\u2019s no terrorism involved there. There\u2019s no Middle East involved there. So it\u2019s of no interest to them. This Emirates deal is just what they think they\u2019ve been asking for. But, see, the problem here again, as I keep saying, the problem is, okay, the Democrats, they want Americans to understand that they\u2019re tough, that they recognize we have an enemy. The enemy is the United Arab Emirates, and the United Arab Emirates is not on the enemies list of this country. But they\u2019re trying to make Americans think that it should be and so they\u2019re demagoguing the whole issue. <\/line>Now, if China ever develops a connection with Al-Qaeda, if China ever develops a connection with any terrorist group like this, then this kind of a deal is going to come under more security. I\u2019ll tell you what I think about it. I think there needs to be, obviously, a better way to ensure that our technology isn\u2019t flowing to hostile countries and others. I mean, you don\u2019t have to kill all these deals, but a coherent and consistent policy for reviewing these deals that may transfer technology like this has to be put in place. We have an export control regime, but it may not be enough in the post-9\/11 era. They need to look at it, needs to be evaluated, not for protectionist reasons, but for legitimate national security reasons. Obviously Westinghouse was sold to the British before 9\/11. After 9\/11, would that kind of a sale be permitted? And do we have the power to stop a privately held company from selling to whoever they want to sell to? Well, the Democrats think we do. Obviously the case can be made on an individual case-by-case basis, but I don\u2019t know what you do now about this, other than beg the British not to sell it to Toshiba. What do you do? They\u2019re an ally. Threaten to nuke them if they allow it? I don\u2019t know what we could do.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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