The same UAE that earns high praise and support from General Tommy Franks and Colonel Ollie Northl; both of whom have a little bit of first hand knowledge and experience in national defense, terrorism, the middle east and the UAE.
Why don't you add the UAE's chief lobbyist, Bob Dole, to that list?
Tommy Franks has my ear.
Ollie North is a party hack who ceased having any ideas of his own a long long time ago, and whose hubris caused VA to lose a Republican Senate seat when it really mattered.
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by the way, I got a kick out of your post earlier this morning:
Bushbot: anyone who can't come up with six new reasons to hate President Bush by noon each day.
Real Conservative: those who can.
True Conservative: the eight people who can AND who bought pat buchanan's last book.
ROFL
Great post. Uninformed people should just keep their mouths shut.
It's almost too easy, isn't it fellow "usual culprit?" ROTFL!!
Then again, I'm not sure why I find such collective ignorance so amusing. This really is a serious matter. But I guess laughing keeps me from crying.
You mean the way some people are quick to forget that DP World and Dubai are critical elements in the logistics support for our troops fighting the war? Or how we trust them to provide services and support for the largest contingent of U.S. Navy vessels outside the U.S...including our European so-called friends?
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What you wrote so clearly should be obvious to every politician and rational thinker. What you wrote is the very reason that CFIUS participants did not see red flags when asked to vet the sale of the port operations to DPW.
They already are looking after our security interests in a major way! I really am despairing at the shortsighted reactions to having this company involved in some American ports.
I am convinced that the major objections started with the waterfront unions, who do not want an employer noted for modernization and efficiency.
The ports will likely be safer after the sale of P & O to Dubai Ports World, because the new management will have better knowledge of potential terrorists. Surveillance and port security will still be directed by the Coast Guard and other U.S. agencies, not by the company loading and unloading ships. DPW will likely retain most of P & O's employees in the U.S.. Whether it's a British company, German, French, Chinese, whatever, matters very little, except that DPW has an excellent reputation. It is in their economic interest to help prevent a terrorist attack in the U.S.. President Bush is right again. Too bad we can't have Four More Years.
Stop confusing the EMOTIONAL, NON-THINKING, KNEE-JERKING IDIOTS with solid rational facts that DESTROY their basis for moonbatting...