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A Dubai Finesse ("This Contract Should Have Been Stopped at an Earlier Stage...")
Washington Post ^
| 02/24/2006
| Charles Krauthammer
Posted on 02/24/2006 3:08:30 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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To: Alouette; SJackson; veronica; Slings and Arrows
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posted on
02/24/2006 3:09:27 AM PST
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
("It'sTime for Republicans to Start Toeing the Conservative Line, NOT the Other Way Around!")
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
He's a traitor...put him on the list!!!!
/sarcasm
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posted on
02/24/2006 3:09:59 AM PST
by
chasio649
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
"That would mean a transfer of information about our security operations -- and perhaps even worse, about the holes in our security operations -- to a company in an Arab state in which there might be employees who, for reasons of corruption or ideology, would pass this invaluable knowledge on to al-Qaeda types."
Charles, I usually enjoy your writing but are you aware that the Saudi's already operate a commercial port facility in this country?
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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posted on
02/24/2006 3:11:53 AM PST
by
cabojoe
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
I guess he didn't know about this
Here
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
give it heightened scrutiny by assigning a team of U.S. government agents to work inside the company at least for the first few years to make sure security is tight and information closely held;They'll be about as effective as UN inspectors in Iraq.
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posted on
02/24/2006 3:15:16 AM PST
by
gotribe
(Hillary: Accessory to Rape)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
"UAE-based firms have operated in Houston long time" thats the new headlines hows does this square with his thinking?
To: Echo Talon
I guess he didn't know about this HereOh, what kneejerk horsecrap. Krauthammer plainly states:
"Democrats loudly denounce any thought of racial profiling. But when that same Arab, attired in business suit and MBA, and with a good record of running ports in 15 countries, buys P&O, Democrats howl at the very idea of allowing Arabs to run our ports. (Republicans are howling, too, but they don't grandstand on the issue of racial profiling.)"
You patently didn't even bother to read the article, before posting. Try again.
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posted on
02/24/2006 3:16:09 AM PST
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
("It'sTime for Republicans to Start Toeing the Conservative Line, NOT the Other Way Around!")
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Sometimes I think our president isn't too savey. Then he goes out and wins.
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posted on
02/24/2006 3:17:43 AM PST
by
Joe Boucher
(an enemy of islam)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
I posted that in response to
The greater and more immediate danger is that as soon as the Dubai company takes over operations, it will necessarily become privy to information about security provisions at crucial U.S. ports. That would mean a transfer of information about our security operations -- and perhaps even worse, about the holes in our security operations -- to a company in an Arab state in which there might be employees who, for reasons of corruption or ideology, would pass this invaluable knowledge on to al-Qaeda types.
That is the danger, and it is a risk, probably an unnecessary one
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
"
This contract should have been stopped at an earlier stage, but at this point doing so would cause too much damage to our relations with moderate Arab states."
Don't kook now, but the spinmiesters are stepping back from the abyss.
It is still (President) Bush's fault, but we must make the best of it now.
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posted on
02/24/2006 3:22:27 AM PST
by
G.Mason
(Duty, Honor, Country)
To: CWOJackson
I usually enjoy your writing but are you aware that the Saudi's already operate a commercial port facility in this country?
Already helping the enemy? Oh well, can't stop now. Let's support them some more. (sarc)
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posted on
02/24/2006 3:22:45 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: Echo Talon
I posted that in response to You stated "I guess he didn't know about this," and then linked to an article entitled "UAE-based firms have operated in Houston long time." As Krauthammer's plainly, lucidly demonstrates: your Pavlovian, drive-by assumption was not only absurd, but demonstrably false.
Again: read, first... then post.
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posted on
02/24/2006 3:25:07 AM PST
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
("It'sTime for Republicans to Start Toeing the Conservative Line, NOT the Other Way Around!")
To: cripplecreek
The good news, and where Charles makes a common mistake, is we're not allowing them to run any U.S. ports.
To: CWOJackson
Kuwait also runs terminals in NJ
To: CWOJackson
And the money goes where?
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posted on
02/24/2006 3:26:58 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: cripplecreek
The same place it goes now, to a foreign concern operating the facility, into local taxes and services and to local workers.
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
And Kuwait being a middle eastern country already running terminals in Newark, NJ is also false huh? Give it up Kent
To: CWOJackson
And it goes into building mosques, madrassas, and into training and armming terrorists. Personally I don't like paying them to kill our soldiers.
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posted on
02/24/2006 3:30:33 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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