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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (726898)	2/20/2006 1:22:19 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

To find the historical parallels for the port deal, one should go back to WWII. While they became fashionable anti-American hobby horses in the 60's, the decisions to lock up the domestic Japanese in 1941, and to use the atomic bomb against Japan in 1945, were no-brainers to the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. Their failure to do either would have cost them a HUGE politcal price in an America engaged in a desperate war-including accusations of treason that might have knocked their party from power forever. Chances are the port deal has been vetted, and nothing negative has been found. But the political implications-the "image", if you will, for an America engaged in a desperate and long-term war, simply dictate that the deal be quashed. That, as they say, is democracy...