UAE Library Donation

The Bush Administration: hubris, cronyism, and incompetence.

The shady details of the UAE port deal continue to come out as the AP reported that one of the UAE sheiks donated at least $1 million to the Bush Library Foundation.

A sheik from the United Arab Emirates contributed at least $1 million to the Bush Library Foundation, which established the George Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University in College Station.

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The donations were made in the early 1990s for the library, which houses the papers of former President George Bush, the current president’s father.

The list of donors names Sheik Zayed Bin Sultan al Nahyan and the people of the United Arab Emirates as one donor in the $1 million or more category.

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Other Arab donors include the state of Kuwait, the Bandar bin Sultan family, the Sultanate of Oman, King Hassan II of Morocco and the amir of Qatar. The former Korean prime minister and China also gave tens of thousands of dollars to the library.

Has there ever been any actual effort to protect America from this administration or is it solely about fear and corporate profits? After all, the Treasury Secretary yesterday said that economics are apparently more important than national security.

Feb 24, 2006 by Joshua Skaroff in Bush, John Snow, National Security, Port Security, Treasury, United Arab Emirates

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2 Responses to “UAE Library Donation”

1. wally Says:
   February 26th, 2006 at 4:10 am

   WOW All I can ask the President is.”say it aint so Bro”?

2. Bob Goldschmidt Says:
   March 2nd, 2006 at 11:44 pm

   This whole episode raises the often-denied but never disproven questions of coziness between this misdirected but powerfully inept administration and the “establishment-radical” Arab world- Saudi and otherwise. Of course Hussein was evil and murderous- he was also unpopular with these same governments- like the one who might now run our ports. This kind of coziness explains the rush into war in iraq- and the constantly shifting justification for it. Putting lives at stake for a cause should require that the cause be clear, consistent and eventually provable.

   Let’s see- incorrect reasons for war. Attempts to tear apart the contract of Social Security in a misguided “bootstrap” theory designed to reward the economically “connected”. Unqualified Supreme Court nominee we’re expected to forget. Failure to heed taped warnings of natural disaster-lying about the facts of this failure. We almost impeached one President for lying about his private life- but the list above is supposed to merit admiration? Let’s face it- Cheyney’s better at hunting safety than Bush is at leadership.