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• Saturday, February 25, 2006 10:51 AM

  Now suddenly (non-Saudi) Arabs are A-OK with the right?

  For five years now I've listened to a steady stream of right-wing racist crap about how all Arabs/Muslims are potential terrorists, we should keep them all out of our country, they're subhuman, they're all out to get us, etc. etc. It's been the LEFT fighting against this kind of ethnic profiling that has seen countless Arabs and Arab-Americans and anyone who even LOOKS like they might be an Arab get detained, assaulted or killed. All that unforgivable evil is on the conscience of the right, for helping to fuel the hatred.

  Now suddenly WE'RE the bigots for questioning this deal? You know what, you moronic, corrupt, pseudo-cowboy puppet? I'm not so much questioning the deal as the MOTIVES behind this abrupt about-face... not to mention the careful avoidance of the customary due diligence. It's just a little odd to me that the two countries who boasted 17 of the 19 9/11 hijackers are the two countries treated with the most delicate of kid gloves by this administration, while a country that had nothing whatsover to do with anything has been cruelly and senselessly devastated by this administration. Things that make you go "WTF?!"

  I wouldn't care WHO the deal was with. I'd still expect to see reviews, investigations and TRANSPARENCY where this sort of thing is concerned. This deal is just more corrupt cronyism at work, and the swiftness with which it went through is more than a bit suspicious. I don't distrust the UAE any more than I distrust anyone else. But I DO distrust this administration and its motives.

  —LaurieNY Read LaurieNY's other letters
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