So it looks like the Bushes aren't the only presidential family with ties to the Middle East. And BTW, I don't see anything wrong with a former president making a buck as long as its above board, so more power to Bill Clinton:
http://tinyurl.com/lj8xo "Bill is, after all, a regular in Dubai. The crown prince that is, the government contributed to his presidential library and pays him $300,000 per speech. Recently, Yucaipa, an American company that has Bill Clinton as a "senior adviser" and pays him a percentage of its profits, formed a partnership with the Dubai Investment Group to form DIGL Inc., a company dedicated to managing the sheik's personal investments. No doubt Bill Clinton was brought in to cement this lucrative deal from which he and therefore Hillary will likely make millions. Neither Bill nor Hillary will disclose how much he is paid, but her Senate financial disclosure says that he will make "more than" $1,000. They also won't say how much Dubai royalty gave to the Clinton library. So when Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) broke the story that the administration had approved the Dubai ports deal and Bill Clinton started to defend it in public, are we to believe that Hillary did not know that the sheik had called him to ask his advice, and are we to believe that Bill's defense of the deal was unrelated to his myriad financial ties to Dubai? Hillary stands to gain millions in income from her husband's Dubai connection. She knows he flies there very, very frequently. And she must realize that Bill is close to the Dubai royal family. So why did she dump on the port deal? Likely to cover herself. If she were anything less than front and center against the Dubai port deal, she would vulnerable to criticism over Bill's involvement with the Dubai royal family. So she held marathon press conferences denouncing the deal and professed not to realize her husband was defending the deal at the sheik's request. What's really going on here is that Bill Clinton is trying to please his Arab patrons and business partners at the same time that Hillary Clinton is trying to capitalize on American stereotypes about Arab terrorists. More important, she's desperately trying to distract attention from the Dubai dollars that flow into her family checking account from Bill's political and business dealings with the Dubai crown prince. What better way than to attack them? We should insist that: Bill Clinton register as an agent of a foreign principal. The Clintons say how much he makes from Dubai. The Clinton library tell us how much Dubai royalty gave to the library. And Bill disclose, in the future, whenever he is speaking as an ex-president or as a paid public-relations flack. *Eileen McGann co-authored this column."* On 3/12/06, Dana Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not actually. But there is legitimate reason for concern. I know it's > hard for you to see shades of grey so let me see if I can make it simpler. > Arabs are people. Some people do bad things. Does that help? > > > So all last week you were ranting about Muslims being people and > > we're > > painting them all with one brush. This week your saying all Arabs are > > terrorists. > > Which is it? > > > > On 2/22/06, dana tierney wrote: > > > US and Canadian too? I had seen something about the Australian > > warnings, not the others though. > > > > > > I can (just barely) see Mush's position, but I think it's really > > dumb. How can you require someone like me to show a picture ID to get > > into the FBI headquarters here, but the UAE gets carte blanche to run > > major ports? Hello? The only explanation I am able to come up with is > > that the UAE people are big business, which of course can do no wrong... > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:199701 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
