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Some observations and thoughts on the U.S. port management by a Middle Eastern firm ("Sink the Dubai Ports Deal!" March 20) came to mind as I listened to the spinmeisters defending the Bush administration's handling of the contract issue.
It is adding insult to injury when you have young hired guns of the administration lecturing the public in order to quell the tremendous grass-roots outpouring of objections and the raising of legitimate questions we want answers to. One such man warned us, "We can't have the country run by mob rule."
A young woman on the panel with him kept lamenting the image we were conveying to the world: discrimination against the people of the Middle East, Arabs, Muslims, whatever. Good heavens, what would the world think of us!
I hoped they would remember the thousands of Americans who died fighting wars on their behalf, not to mention the tens of thousands who ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Foreign control of America.(Letter to the editor)