UPDATE 11:33 PM: What a coincidence. Rove goes on Fox to say the deal may be delayed and, lo and behold, the UAE government-owned company makes a "surprise announcement" that they want to delay the deal.
"Completely adamant." Your President is not backing down. He's right and he knows it, damn it:
A senior White House official said, however, that Mr. Bush was still adamant that he would veto any effort by Congress to overturn the deal, and insisted that the president would stand by his threat to veto any legislation intended to kill the deal.So, now we have the standard for what Bush thinks would be a disaster in the Mideast. Not the Iraq war. No, a disaster is denying a contract to oversee American ports by a foreign country with ties to terror. Bad business deal -- that's a disaster in his eyes. Country we invaded on the brink of civil war -- not so much. This whole episode clarifies once again why Bush is a disaster.
"He's completely adamant about this," another of Mr. Bush's aides said. If a Dubai company is treated as less trustworthy than a British one, the aide said, "he thinks that the signal in the Mideast would be disastrous."
