Urinating On Our Legs & Telling Stories About Port Security

Video Clip from Lou Dobbs:

"This deal [Dubai Ports World] would not go forward, IF we were concerned with the security of this nation." - President George W. Bush [emphasis added]

Reading this statement carefully, we can see a latent meaning:

IF we were concerned with the security of this nation this deal would not go forward.

Obviously, the Bush administration is not concerned, despite the fear-mongering it has engaged in since 9-11, with the security of this nation.

• Dubai Ports World deal goes "unnoticed" by President Bush... claiming he learned of the deal just a week or two ago.


• Airport security is still a joke and is extremely ineffective.


• The Coast Guard is ill-equipped and under-manned to perform all the tasks to safeguard our ports.


• The Coast Guard has one member of its service for every 83 miles of coastline.


• The Coast Guard raised concerns about the DPW deal and were ignored or dismissed.


• Customs is under-staffed and only physically searching 5-6% of all containers.


• The screening technology used to "screen" these containers is inefficent.


• The containers brought to US ports are unsecure from the points of origin.


• The containers received are shipped by rail and truck across the nation.


• The top model for port security, owned and operated by DPW in Dubai, is poorly protected.


• The UAE, including Dubai, has had close contacts with Osama bib Laden in the past.


• The highest court in the United Kingdom is hearing a case that could prevent the DPW purchase of P&O from going through for national security reasons in Britain.


• US National Guard troop numbers are dwindling, the funding for all reserve units is being cut, US governors are complaining about the depletion of emergency forces, and many of the National Guard assets are away from our shores in Iraq and Afghanistan.


• We are spending far too much money on technology solutions without first developing the essential layers of security, including having adequate numbers of personnel, adequate training, and adequate pay to retain qualified people on the job.


• We can't seem to get a straight answer from the Bush administration or the GOP leadership. They are either ill-informed, manipulating the facts, fighting off scandals, spinning the news, or claiming privilege over national security secrets.


• Our chemical plants, fuel plants, nuclear power plants, trucking depots, railways, railroad yards, and highways are increasingly at risk for a 9-11 style attack.


• Our southern borders, southern coast lines, and even our northern borders are permeable by illegal aliens, leaving us at risk for infiltration.


• Our own response to disasters on our own shores has shown the Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, the National Guard, INS, Border Patrol, and local/state governments not able to respond adequately.


• DPW will have control and/or ownership of 22 US ports on March 2, 2006, whether the administration conducts a lawful review of the deal or not.


• The DPW deal has not followed legal due process in any way, shape or form, but has been fully endorsed by President Bush, even though he was COMPLETELY UNAWARE of the deal just a few days before the media storm about it.

Our own government hasn't got a handle on the scope and breadth of the national security issues. We are spending over a half a trillion dollars of tax payer money in places overseas while we are CUTTING funding for our own infrastructure, personnel and procedures here on our own soil.

Somebody has to stop urinating on our legs and telling us that the weather man has predicted rain.