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Bill Clinton helped Dubai on ports deal
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Financial Times (FT.com) ^ | March 1 2006 23:50 | Stephanie Kirchgaessner
Bill Clinton, former US president, advised top officials from Dubai two weeks ago
on how to address growing US concerns over the acquisition of five US container terminals by DP World.
It came even as his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton, was leading efforts to derail the deal.
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Good Morning all. I will be doing the top 10 but I have a rather full day I must get back to shortly and a long day tomorrow so I probably will not get a list up until Tuesday Afternoon.
Click on the link to read the rest. Not up to our standards, but not bad, not bad <g>
What happened on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows By: Mark Kilmer · Section: Other Politics
March 5, 2006This week is in the can. (A Hollywood term in honor of the still-hyped Academy awards.)
On NBC's Meet the Press, Joint Chiefs Chairman General Peter Pace, USMC, said: "I wouldn't put a great big smiley face on it, but I'd say [things] are going very, very well" in Iraq. Russert reminded him that Ibrahim al-Jaafari reads Noam Chomsky, and Pace quipped that he hoped Jaafari had more books on his nightstand. Later, on CBS's Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer (or his producers) truncated the generals statement simply to "very, very well," eliminating the qualifiers and making the General appear unrealistically Pollyannaish. Jack Kemp on MTP suggested a "Marshall Plan" for the countries which would destroy us, to give them jobs and a sense of hope. He also suggested a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq.
Same show, same segment, John Edwards said that now that the 2004 election is over, he is free to tell the world that he thought he blew it when he voted for the invasion of Iraq.
Michael Brown, on FNS, said that Mike Chertoff should not have gotten in his way when he was trying to react to Katrina. Tom Ridge was smart, he said, in that he let Chertoff run with the response to the Florida hurricanes.
Jack Murtha FTN called Joint Chiefs Chairman General Peter Pace, USMC, a liar. Next segment, Schieffer asked Dick Lugar if he agreed.
On LE, DP Ports World CEO Mohammed Sharaf acted like he were a businessman doing business. The bottom line. Asked about the UAE's declaration of enmity for Israel, Sharaf said he does business with Israel's Zim Shipping all the time. No big deal. Chuckie Schumer, next segment, called this "poppycock" and argued that Sharaf "doesn't know the business."
Duncan Hunter on TW raved about a Nazi conspiracy with Dubai to ship heavy water for nukes to the PRC. All sorts of secret stuff about which the President must not have been briefed. Susie Collins might have been made nervous by such banter. She said she wants to review the deal, and she applauded the President for the 45 days.
Read the complete, show-by-show review below the fold…
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Oh crap, I missed that exquisite Drug War Soldier Johnny Edwards. Bummer.
