Via Americablog, the Bush administration is again playing the “dissent aids terrorists” card:

Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England portrayed the United Arab Emirates, of which the Emirate of Dubai is a part, as a vital ally in the war on terror. He noted that more U.S. warships reside there than anywhere in the world outside of the United States, including 590 military sea-lift command ships in 2005.

“We rely on them for the security of our forces there,” he said. England warned Congress of reacting too strongly against the Dubai deal. “The terrorists want us, they want our nation, to become distrustful, they want us to become paranoid and isolationist, and in my view, we cannot allow this to happen,” he said.

Much of the outrage over the deal strikes me as ill-informed and politically motivated, but this sort of rhetoric is over the line.