To be fair, it isn't a Bush deal. These foreign business deals are handled by a group of other agencies. They all work together to ensure the deal is fair etc. as well as the security issues. All those things people are asking for a 45 day delay in order to do has already been done....with the exception that more people would be involved in the process that normally have no business being involved in it.

I saw a headline on MSN that said Bush was in the dark on the deal. What does that tell us? Nothing excpet the bias of the author of the article. When looking deeper at the issue it wasn't a Bush issue until it got to the final stages.

I am actually surprised a bit with the left. I am happy to see them showing real concern about security issues but it seems they (along with some righties, too be fair) are trying charge a stricter standard on UAE simply because they are Arab. This is surprising in such a PC world.

I acknowledge that 2 of the 9/11 hijackers were from UAE. Hoever, that doesn't condemn the whole country. Our navy has dealt with this company for many years. The Army sent me to a school on an AF base and there were students there from UAE. They were also serving with us in the Kosovo Campaign and were on the same base camp as I was. I actually got to know some of them fairly well.

Anyways, to condem the whole country on the basis of these 2 men would be like me condeming all of Alabama because of a couple of jackasses buring down churches. I have been stationed in AL and had no issues.

Just throwing stuff out there to think about. I haven't set my opinion in stone yet so these items are as much for me as they are for you.