A 9/11 dad says President Bush has 'gone insane'... why? It's that darned port deal, which has the U.S. turning over operations at a half-dozen U.S. ports -- our most vulnerable defense point, to a state-owned company out of the United Arab Emirates. According to the NY Daily News, this is what Peter Gadiel, whose son James died in the World Trade Center, had to say at a weekend press conference with Sen. Chuck Schumer:
"I'm a lifelong Republican and I think the President's gone insane," said Gadiel, 58, who heads 9/11 Families for a Secure America.
Two of the 19 9/11 hijackers were citizens of Dubai, the Arab emirate whose bid to run ports in New York, New Jersey and four other cities was okayed by the White House even though investigators have found signs that money used to finance terrorism flowed through Dubai banks.
"How the hell could this happen?" fumed Bill Doyle, 58, a retired Staten Island stockbroker whose son Joseph also died when the Trade Center fell.
"We're not securing our country in any way by selling our ports to foreigners," he said.
As I reported in this post, an American company that operates out of the Port of Miami is suing the Bush administration over the plan, which Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff continues to defend, even in the face of bi-partisan opposition.
Clearly, the administration's fetish for outsourcing has gone too far. Get 'em, Lou Dobbs...
Update: Despite all the criticism, from Democrats and Republicans alike, guess who's not afraid of the Dubai-runs-the-ports deal? You guessed it: Joe Lieberman... One has to begin to wonder if there's anything the Bush administration can come up with that Mr. Lieberman won't fall for...
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