Reply #105: I haven't read the bill...

[Wordie]

so I would have to reserve judgement until then. There's a lot I like about Hillary, but I also think she has a tendency to pander at times. (Did you see the clips of her a while ago, praising the Israeli apartheid wall? Not pretty.)

And as for ties of the UAE to 9/11, are you sure about that?

One could say, for instance, that the US was also a staging area for the terrorists, as many of them lived here for quite some time, but that in itself doesn't imply that anyone in our government was involved. And because their banking system was used by the 9/11 terrorists doesn't necessarily say much either. The UAE tends to be a bit more libreral than many of the surrounding arab countries, and is somewhere a foreigner could stay without attracting too much attention, so that might be an alternative explanation as to why several of the terrorists spent time there. And we as a nation have our native Timothy McVeighs and Unibombers, but that doesn't necessarily, once again, say anything about our government or the majority of people in our culture.

You said, ...the UAE can't or won't stop the terrorists from using there soil against us. That's not bigotry, that's a fact. So far, I haven't seen or read anything that establishes that as a fact. Again, what is the ultimate source of this information? Could it be spin?

I am not really intending to defend the UAE here - as I said, I just don't know enough - but I just don't want to get everyone so riled up that we jump off a cliff that we could have avoided.