[RobsList] [progressive] Political Antenna Fell Off the White House

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:58:37 -0800



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Date: Mar 9, 2006 2:36 PM
Subject: [progressive] Political Antenna Fell Off the White House
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Imus: "And then we've got those nuts in Iran threatening us."
Pat Buchanan MSNBC Political Analyst: " Well, I really don't give much credence to Iran threatening the United States unless we hit them, unless we hit their nuclear sites, which you know I'm one of those that believes that they really don't have the nuclear thing, that these guys haven't mastered the technology. David Sanger of the New York Times had an excellent piece on, I think it was Sunday, which described, maybe it was Saturday, which described how these guys haven't mastered turning ore into hexafluoride. It's impure, their centrifuges have cracked and broken, they don't have enough of them. I think they could be five or ten years away, which leads me to believe, I think, that these preemptive strikes by the United States would be a real mistake because our guys in Iraq would pay for it."
Imus: "How about Israel? They're threatening to enroll, so?"
Buchanan: "You know again I think they there might be a bit of bluff here."
Imus: "Didn't Israel send some kind of deadline, the end of March or something?"
Buchanan: "They sent, you're right. They sent an end of March deadline. I think what the Israelis are doing is trying to pressure Uncle Sam to do it for them."
Imus: "Right."
Buchanan: "And I think this could lead to a real split between the U.S. and Israel if the Americans say, 'Look we're going to go down the sanctions diplomacy road, and we're just not going to do this because we got our guys, we got 140,000 guys in Iraq and 20,000 in Afghanistan, and they're right next door to these characters and we got all these investments over there, and all these people over there, civilians and military, and you hit the Iranians and the revolutionary guards will come in and they will stir up the Shias and we could lose the Iraq war very fast."
NEWS QUOTE OF THE DAY #2
Imus: "Tell me your view of that Dubai Ports deal."
MSNBC political analyst Pat Buchanan: "Well, my view is the political antenna really fell off the White House. The idea that you can tell people, you know, wake up, keep your eyes out, and you gotta get shaken down to get on a plane, and we're in a 70-year war against Islamofacism, and it's the third World, fourth World War and all this, and then to wake up one morning, and Bubba reads in his newspaper that Bush is leasing America's East Coast ports to Arab sheiks, what kind of reaction would they expect? And so I think they should've expected the reaction they're going to get, and this thing is so far down the road now, the President's going to get himself humiliated. The House Appropriations Committee 62 to 2, I think Republicans are looking at it as a way to declare independence of Bush, slap down the deal, and Democrats are going along with the whole program. I think there's a lot of demagoguery involved. But there's no doubt that all things being equal, you'd rather have the Brits operating the ports rather than the sheiks from Dubai."
Imus: "Do you believe the President didn't know all that much about it, as he said?"
Buchanan: "No, I think that's right. My understanding is they try to cauterize these approval things to keeps politics out of them and have the decision simply made on the basis of national security and economics and the rest, and that's why they have this so-called treasury committee, treasury-headed committee by Kimmet. And so they kept politics out of it, but by so doing, I think they've hurt the President badly. I don't think the President knew anything about the deal to begin with."
Imus: "Well, that doesn't make any sense. Shouldn't he have known about it? "
Buchanan: "Well, no, they've got deals. Apparently, they've had all kinds of deals that are passed on that have gone through, and I think this committee, it's sort of a sub-cabinet committee has only rejected one in history, and frankly, if you're talking strictly economics, and you've got a security consideration, you've got all the people represented in there, apparently. Even though the Coast Guard was said to have, they've been smacked down. But you got everybody represented there and that's the way this thing was set up, and it's going to be changed now because we're in a new era with this post 9/11."
NEWS QUOTE OF THE DAY #3
Imus talks to Sen. Orrin Hatch (R) Utah regarding the Dubai ports deal.
Imus: "Let's just say you're right, which maybe you are. It's still a public relations disaster. Holy…man!"
Sen. Orrin Hatch: "Well, it certainly is. I don't think the administration has really handled it very well, to be honest with you. I've been very concerned with the way they've handled it. I was reassured, though, when I heard that President Bush had looked into the deal, but then I learned that he didn't know much about it until after it was approved. Apparently, this was part of the White House's new 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy."


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