Reply #19: I'm a lttle dense this morning, not getting the analogy.

[RaleighNCDUer]

Is the girlfriend Dubai, or Hannity?

The Dubai royals know what matters to this administration - money. They were financiers for OBL and other terrorists through BCCI and BCCE; on such good terms that they visited his terror training camps in Afghanistan. We know all that, of course, because the CIA was funnelling money to OBL and the mujahdeen through BCCI in the 80s, before Kerry's investigation shut down that conduit. Now they're saying, if you don't let us have this contract, we don't need to help you fight terror, as if that was a priority with them in the first place.

I don't believe that autocratic dictatorhips with a history of animosity toward democracy should have any say, in the slightest degree, over the security of our ports. Of course, that statement applies to Bushco, too.