California Conservative

And Scott Ott was the only one to receive them. He reports:

(2006-02-21) — In an effort to quiet concerns in Congress and elsewhere over a deal that would have a Dubai-based company running six major U.S. sea ports, the White House today released new security guidelines for vessels and crews.

The new measures, based on the popular Transportation Security Administration (TSA) protocols, “will keep the homeland safe while demonstrating our cultural sensitivity by allowing our Arab friends to control these major access points to our country,” according to White House spokesman Scott McClellan.

“Every friendship requires vulnerability,” Mr. McClellan said. “We demonstrate our love for our friends in the United Arab Emirates by trusting them, without regard to previous wrongs.”

The White House spokesman acknowledged that love, by definition, often results in pain, but added, “it’s better to have loved and lost a major metropolitan area, than never to have loved at all.”

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