In Booman’s post The Politics of Ports, there are not a few comments regarding the relative importance of this story, and others trying to figure out why BushCo has gone to the veto wall to protect the deal.
Right out front, Booman states “As much as this story bores me, it has become a major story.”
Yup.
But WHY?
Below, my own conclusions on that question.
Besides some impossibly Machiavellian legislative/executive conspiracy theory, the only thing that this threatened veto tells us is that for SOME reason, the port deal is very important to BushCo.
Since BushCo runs on profit, then it is more than likely a PROFIT motive of some kind.
A deal among the big players.
Oil rights, military access rights, influence in the highest places…something along those lines.
Or of course…the UAR people have something really big on them.
Blackmail.
9/11 info, bin Laden info, Saudi info, secret bank account info…something.
Any way you cut it, you see that it must be some sort of big tits for big tats.
Among the biggest of big rats.
The ONLY other possible motive…and given the history of the last 6 years of BushCo (let alone the policies of Reagan and other BushCo-operated entities and affiliates) it is not entirely inpossiible….is that the sole goal of this group is to bring the United States down.
As I have said before here…if it consistently acts like a treasonous duck, there is ample reason to seriously consider that it might very well be a treasonous duck.
For what purpose?
To impose a new, corporatist, super-national system upon the world.
You cannot wage war on a fascist regime that has no centralized location. (Hitler’s biggest mistake. Being there. Being ANYWHERE. Had he studied further with the devil, he would have learned that GREATEST of all tricks. Convincing people that you do not exist. I believe it is quite possible that we are dealing with people who indeed DID put in that extra study time with the Bad Doctor. I mean…if you are going to get all conspiracist, why not go whole hog? It certainly fits the facts. If you were casting a Hell, wouldn’t YOU want a Cheney and a Rove as leading players? Quackle quackle.)
For WHATEVER reasons, these people are risking political suicide within their own party. Now, grant them this. So far, they have not been politically inept.
So…either they:
1-KNOW that they will win the political battle.
2-Have indeed made a monumental political error.
Or
3-The stakes are so high that they have no choice in the matter and have to go all in.
Any possibility makes this a big, BIG story.
Go with it.
AG
P.S. Booman…so this story “bores” you?
And Cheney’s excellent shooting adventure story did not?
Time to look up the word “prioritize” in that ol’ left-wing dictionary in the sky, ‘bro…
I don’t think the port deal is a major concern for Bush as far as money goes or as far as his needing to please UAE in terms of blackmail. This is not a gigantic business deal. He’s letting it play out as it keeps people talking about safety.
It is to Bush’s advantage that this becomes a controversy. I think that’s why he’s letting it go on and on. It creates tension.
People are talking about security. That’s what Bush wants. What if they get our ports? How many of us will they kill? Will they use dirty bombs? They just arrested 3 more innocent people of planning to bomb american soldieris in Iraq and assassinate Bush.
I think this is orchestrated by Bush to promote talk about terroism.
Remember…”Bush” does NOTHING.
BUSHCO, on the other hand…
AG
Afghaniistan>Pakistan>Abu Dhabi>Europe and US.
AG, it’s hard being the canary in the coal mine.
You are not alone.
Peace
I’ve posted a little information in a few comments around the place but they seem ignored…..thanks for the great links, dada, btw.
There are so many sides to this jewel of a gift handed to the Democrats. Issues that have needed attention and this is the parfect time to take a positive stand.
You wqrite:
“There are so many sides to this jewel of a gift handed to the Democrats.”
Ya wanna bet they fuck it up, these “Dems”?
On the evidence.
I mean…George W. was a “”jewel of a gift” BOTH times he ran, and look how well they did with THAT one.
AG
You cannot wage war on a fascist regime that has no centralized location.
The Principality of Sealand
It bores me because it is basically a financial story, not a security story, and it is disgusting to see CNN lie and mischaracterize every single fact of this case.
That’s right, I don’t like it when story lines are simplified beyong recognition and used as an anvil to crush debate and marginalize those with another point of view.
There is, indeed, some poetic justice in seeing these tactics being used against Bush for once. But it remains disgusting.
See Soj’s diary for a reality check.
“It bores me because it is basically a financial story, not a security story?”
This whole ADMINISTRATION is a financial story, BooMan, and the “security” issues…INCLUDING the “War On Terror”…are merely icing on the cake.
THEIR “security”. NOT ours.
“…it is disgusting to see CNN lie and mischaracterize every single fact of this case? “
Then TURN THE DAMNED THING OFF!!!
Because from the first word out of their mouth at 6AM and right through to the end of the day, from weather to ads to “hard news” to discussion programs…every single thing that CNN SAYS is a lie and mischaracterization.
Everything.
And you are mainlining this junk.
Right into the old brain vein.
Deep.
AG
P.S. You know, BooMan…I have been around junkies all of my liife. It is hard enough to kick a habit once you actually recognize that you are strung out. But you and the other millions of news junkies…you don’t even know that you are shooting up.
Deep.
AG
Dude, it’s my job.
Maybe you would like me to cease using links to media outlets or to actually link without reading. But it is not practical.
It’s tiresome to have you constantly accuse me myopia for commenting on the news.
Your “myopia” lies in BELIEVING “the news”.
You want to comment upon it?
Fine.
Point out its utter absurdity.
But if you can not SEE that absurdity…24/7, all over the dial, from soup to nuts and news to commercials…well then:
myopia: 1 short-sightedness. 2 lack of foresight or intellectual insight. (Compact Oxford English Dictionary)
Yup…
AG
It’s amusing to be accused of believing the news when I am continually one of the most skeptical bloggers. I have questioned whether Zarqawi even exists in Iraq, whether bin-Laden’s tapes are authentic, whether or not the Muslim riots are part of a Cairo-Riyadh-Langley psy-op campaign, and many other heretical suggestions. But apparently I am not supposed to watch the news because it corrupts my mind.
Arthur, seriously, save it for someone that needs a dose of skepticism.
While the rest of the blogosphere writes about the ports scandal as though it were a scandal, I am the one pointing out it just business as usual. Oops. Stepping on the message, just like Lieberman. Never giving a drowning hyena a helping hand? Right? Well, I’ll let em drown, but it’s all bullshit.
You write;
“It’s amusing to be accused of believing the news when I am continually one of the most skeptical bloggers.”
Amused, eh…???”
I got yer ‘amusement” right here!!!
You believe the SUBTEXT of the news.
Which is the real news.
You betray this belief in a thousand little ways.
By referring to George Bush as an active player in what is happpening instead of as the front man that he most certainly is.
By referring to the present U.S. government as “we”.
By transparently believing that the Democratic Party is a viable alternative to the current administration despite ALL the evidence to the contrary that has been quite openly presented over the last 8 years or so.
Like the hypnotized subject of some stage magician, you stand there with your pants over your head talking through your fly about how skepitcal you are of hypnotism.
Nice, Boo.
Nice.
AG
Arthur, you are being a prick today. You are treating me like I am some kind of idiot which might be a valid opinion but according to the rules must be done with more delicacy.
I acknowledge that it is sometimes necessary to comment on the news is an ‘as-if’ mode. Beyond that you are just nitpicking. Bush is the President and I am not going to refer to some nebulous force behind the puppet in every reference to the man.
I am a prick because I object to each and every reference to Butch as anything other than a puppet?
By you or any OTHER fool?
So be it.
THIS “prick” thinks that if we were to tell the whole truth ALL OF THE TIME about these people they would topple like a house of cards.
ANYTHING less?
They win.
That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.
AG