9/11 Commission Chair says UAE deal is mistake

Not that Tom Kean would know anything about terrorism besides the fact that he co-chaired the 9/11 Commission:

Thomas Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey who led the bipartisan probe of the Sept. 11 attacks, said the deal was a big mistake because of past connections between the 2001 hijackers and the UAE.

"It shouldn't have happened, it never should have happened," Kean said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

The quicker the Bush administration can get out of the deal, the better, he said. "There's no question that two of the 9/11 hijackers came from there and money was laundered through there," Kean said.

Do you think anyone in the White House read the 9/11 Commission Report? I'm just asking.

Almost surreal that Bush views UAE as his pals, but they laundered Al Qaeda money. It's good to be a friend of W.