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Letters March 2, 2006  RSS feed

U.S ports not safe

As a Jew, I am deeply offended that George W. Bush would consider doing business with a government that doesn’t recognize the state of Israel. As an American, I am appalled that George W. Bush would be so foolish as to do business with a country that defines itself by being so radical that they do not recognize the existence of the state of Israel.

It is reported that Bush build security safeguards into the Dubai Ports World deal when he secretly made it last year behind the backs of Congress, after appointing David Sanford, a former DPW big wig, to the Department of Transportation beneath Norman Mineta. It is also reported that Bush was unaware of the deal until he recently read about it in the newspaper. Which of these is the “bush lie du jour?”

We now learn, according to George Tenent, that the military had Osama Bin Ladin in their crosshairs but were unable to take him out because he was sipping tea with members of the royal family of the United Arab Emirates. Larry Brown Agoura Hills