Washington Pulse -- White House 'Hate Speech' Takes on Life of Its Own

WASHINGTON, D.C.--The sale of control of key operations at six U.S. ports to a United Arab Emirates company may be aborted and the uproar may die down, but what it made clear is the ugly language of hate and war has taken on a life of its own. And this problem is the result of a script written in the White House.

One in three Americans has heard prejudiced comments about Muslims, according to a recent Associated Press-Washington Post poll. Nearly half of Americans have a negative view of Islam. No wonder the American public was vehement in its opposition to the Dubai port deal.

While concern over the Bush administration's handling of national security is justified -- the Bush Administration has failed to establish policies to secure the nation's ports from legitimate threats -- serious debate over how to protect our national security is hardly possible when the president of the United States leads the war-mongering. Even as President Bush spoke in support of the deal to turn over the control of certain commercial operations at the ports to a Dubai company, he continued the climate of deception and fear that makes the deal so objectionable to many Americans.

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