by Douglas DeBono, 2006

ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED AT StandingOrders.BlogSpot.Com, February 27, 2006

There has been much hubbub regarding the UAE ports deal. Polls show that close to 70% of the country oppose the idea, and Republicans are deserting the President in droves.

However, Presidential wannabe Hillary Clinton has taken the controversy a step further. She ripped the Panama Canal agreement that handed over the Atlantic and Pacific port facilities to a Chinese controlled company called Hutchinson Whampoa. These are the people currently pointing several accurate ICBMs at the western United States (again thanks to different security lapse compliments of Slick's brilliant presidency).

The President that presided over this disastrous deal was none other than Hillary's estranged (or is it strange) husband--Slick Willy himself.

At the time I wrote a novel (shameless self promotion--buy a copy on Amazon) called Reap the Whirlwind. Basically RTW is a nasty tale about a missile crisis that targets the southern United States with Chinese mobile nukes in the Canal Zone.

I reasoned that anybody with half a brain might look at Chinese capabilities and the strategic dangers, and recognize that handing over the canal was a very bad idea.

However, I find delicious irony in the fact that Hillary (hell bent on her thrust for the White House) now criticizes the administration she is so closely tied to. While I agree with her assessment (i.e. the Panama Canal deal damaged American national security), I did not arrive at my position through political expediency. I've been here all along.

So to Mrs. Clinton I say, "Welcome to the party!"