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Joe Biden Rips Port Critics' Arab-bashing
2008 presidential hopeful Sen. Joe Biden said Sunday that some critics of the Dubai ports takeover deal, which include many of the Senate's leading Democrats, are guilty of "anti-Arab-bashing." "The fact of the matter is that there are some people - I'm sure this is anti-Arab-bashing," Biden told "Fox News Sunday," adding, "I'm sure that's true." But in the next breath Biden said that Arab allies throughout the Mideast should be treated differently from European nations. "You don't sell the same aircraft to Saudi Arabia - our great ally - that you do to England or to France or to a NATO country. So there's always been a distinction."
Story Continues Below Biden said the Bush administration had caused "a diplomatic problem" by not briefing congressional leaders on the Dubai ports deal before criticism reached a fevered pitch. "The diplomatic problem has been brought on by this administration's tone-deafness," he told Fox. "What they should have done, knowing this [ports] application was being made, they should have brought in Republican leaders in the first place. They should have gone through this thoroughly and showed everybody what was going on."
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