Bless you Paddy Chayevsky, wherever you are

[krabapple]

So, I can't help wondering, *why* is Shrub, who's never used his veto, got *such* a raging hard-on about the Dubai deal, that he's willing to tilt against his own party to preserve it?

You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it. Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a business deal? That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back. It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity. It is ecological balance. You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations; there are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems; one vast, interwoven, interacting, multivaried, multinational dominion of dollars.

[Rspaight]

Especially considering that the current White House line is that he didn't even *know* about it until he heard it on the news.

I guess Cheney wants it bad, then.

Does Halliburton have a port management division?

Ryan