| Dubai Waves Good-Bye, Hello Halliburton & Wal-Mart! |
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March 9, 2006 |
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RUSH: Boy, the news is just flying out there faster than we can keep up with it. Supposedly the Dubai Ports World has divested itself or is announcing it will divest itself of all of its US holdings. I don't know what those are. This is it is not the UAE announcing it. This is just the company: Dubai Ports World. See, they're buying a whole bunch of holdings from this outfit in Great Britain. They're buying a lot of ports. It's just the six that are part of this deal in this country, but a whole lot more. They're pulling out of there, saying, "Screw you! To hell with it." Now, we've got an opportunity here, folks. You know me: I always try to look at events and say what is the opportunity. The opportunity is, all right, everybody wants an American company to run these ports. Take advantage of this, make a move. Get Halliburton in there today. Make a move, and ram this right down Chuck Schumer's throat, because he was asked about this on Fox.
Would you have any problem if the company were Halliburton? (paraphrased)
 I would much prefer Halliburton. I've only had problem with Halliburton in Iraq contracts, sublets, blah, blah, blah, manifests -- manifolds -- but I think Halliburton is great.
Well, fine. Go get Halliburton, give Cheney a commission for engineering this whole deal. The real question to me is what this woman has on the phone here is. Pamela from Toledo, welcome to the program. Nice to have you with us.
CALLER: Super-adoring dittos, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: You're welcome. I have a question about Bill Clinton.
RUSH: Yes.
CALLER: Now, let's say that this deal doesn't go down at least here in the United States. The UAE, or whoever, paid Bill Clinton big bucks for advice on how to get it through. Do you think that this impacts his credibility as a consultant at all?
RUSH: It's a great, great question. They've paid him now. I don't know. See, what Clinton was trying to do, in addition... Now, the 600 grand that he's been paid by the UAE was for speeches that he's made over there at a University, 300 grand a pop for two speeches, but he was also lobbying for the Dubai Ports World outfit to get this deal done. Clinton came up with the idea for this 45-day waiting period that's blown up in their faces. I don't know if he was paid anything. He wasn't registered as an agent or a lobbyist, which he has to do. But he was paid for those speeches.
He was also attempting -- according to the American Spectator we had this last week, he was also attempting -- to maneuver some friends, Madeleine Albright and, I think, William Cohen into the deal after it was done. Vernon Jordan was said to have a role in it, too. Vernon Jordan and Madeleine Albright. Well, it's kaput now, and I don't know if those people were all eyeing a giant payday, a lucrative consultancy contract or whatever, but it's all gone up in smoke now. It's poof, and Dubai understands it. So they're waving good-bye, and saying, "Okay, these ports? To hell with it. We'll turn it over. We'll see these to some other American company if there is one."
That company is Halliburton. Wal-Mart could do it, too. They've shown ability to manage and move large amounts of goods with security and a good health care program for the employees.
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