Bush on UAE Emirs: "I Owe Them...A Lot "

It's with trepidation that I suggest that Bush, who is accusing of anti-Arab racism those who oppose selling the supervision of America's six biggest ports to the seven emirs of the UAE, is in thrall to these selfsame seven emirs.

But shieks and emirs have been cultivating American politicians for nearly 40 years now, especially Texas oil men with whom they have found much in common, and whom, in the particular case of George W. and his father have been at the ready with investment and bail out money whenever the Bushes needed it.

It's laudable that George W. is not a racist when it comes to his rich Arab friends and their money, and that he enjoys such good, close relationships with them. What's not so laudable is how he and Rove fires up much of the American public with racist depictions of wild-eyed Arab terrorists and plays the terror card to silence his growing army of critics.

Perhaps with this latest in that growing array of missteps the truth about the shady dealings of the Bush's and much of America's political elite will finally come to be known more generally by the American public. Perhaps the mostly moribund media will actually provide the personal context for Bush's veto threat.

That'd be nice for once.