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Bush: Ports Deal Collapse May Hurt U.S.
AP via yahoo.com ^ | March, 10 2006 | JENNIFER LOVEN

Posted on 03/10/2006 8:16:05 PM PST by crushelits

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To: nopardons
I guess that you are not aware that this dead man and his cohorts are ANTI-WAR activists, who went to Iraq to stir the pot.

So whats your point? The Islamofascists get a free kill on all anti-war activists??

There are many Christians opposed to war of any kind. I disagree with that personally but that doesn't make them a target for murder by Islamic terrorists!

The man was an AMERICAN citizen as well!

Does that count for nothing to you people????

241 posted on 03/11/2006 12:19:53 AM PST by Walkin Man
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To: Dolphy
They once controlled themselves, with a bit of reminding occasionally.

Now it is every dumb A' Senator for themselves apparently.

I've never witnessed anything quite like it. They need to turn off the camera's and go home.

242 posted on 03/11/2006 12:21:23 AM PST by Cold Heat
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To: Walkin Man
He put himself in the position he got into voluntarily and they used them until they got tired. There have been a few others who did the same with similar results.

Criminals don't respect that sort of thing, not even from other criminals.

I doubt terrorists are any different.

243 posted on 03/11/2006 12:24:54 AM PST by Cold Heat
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To: Walkin Man
He wasn't just your run of the mill anti-war type and his supposed Christianity had less than NOTHING to do with anything.

He and his group were in Iraq ILLEGALLY and to do AMERICA harm.

How do you feel about the late and unlamented Rachel Corie?

And NO, this man being an American counts for less than nothing with me. Johnny Jihad is an American too.

244 posted on 03/11/2006 12:26:11 AM PST by nopardons
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To: Reagan Man
The Muslim Sheiks who control and operate the UAE, and other Islamic nationstates of the ME, won't be divesting in the US. Their investments will be going up. They won't be kicking the worlds only superpower out of their ports and bases either. We protect these dictatorial Sheiks and their Islamic sheikdoms from acts of terrorism.

Gee, you make them sound like good allies.

You've come full circle with your talking points.

So if the Muslim Sheiks who control and operate the UAE won't be divesting in the U.S. after a failed port deal and if the Muslim Sheiks who control and operate the UAE won't be kicking out our military after a failed port deal, then what makes you think that they were a risk to send WMD through our ports in the first place?

245 posted on 03/11/2006 12:28:53 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: nopardons
I am NOT here you give you "practice" of any sort. I am NOT here for your "entertainment! My patience DOES have its limits. And you may lie to yourself that this is all "just in fun" and that you "mean me no harm", but that IS a LIE!

We can't have a mock flame war now. It looks too scheduled and arranged.

I bet you get your jollies by pulling the wings off insects and torturing small animals, as well.

Insects, maybe. Animals, never. Birds, reptiles and amphibians "never" either.

Just to take that to a meaningful level, I emphatically and (I think) effectively took the anti-Greer side of the Schiavo battle.

Go menace someone else!

Who? You are the most expert on heated exchanges and I value your expertise, as you said ...

you WILL lose and lose horrifically, in any kind of a flame war with me

You go on, " ... even IF it got me banned. Do you REALLY want THAT on your conscience?"

Of course I do not want you banned. I assume you will restrain yourself so don't cross the line into "banned-land," but that is something I cannot control.

246 posted on 03/11/2006 12:30:10 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Rte66
... there is a travel agent FReeper who jumps down the throats of anyone who posts *anything* related to the cruise lines, no matter what they say--and you get an ad spam to go along with it.

I must travel in different circles. Oh yeah, I hitch-hike ;-)

247 posted on 03/11/2006 12:31:53 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Reagan Man
PresBush was defiant on this ports issue from the get-go. In the end, Bush`s threats to cast his first veto, favoring UAE business concerns over those of American interests...

Yeah that's quite a caper you're on-to. The president ain't going to pull one over on ole "Reagan Man".

The president wasn't worried about keeping a loyal ally in the WOT.

The president was out dare faverin big bizniz concerns...

248 posted on 03/11/2006 12:35:01 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: Cboldt
I am now giving you fair warning.......................

Post to me or about me, again and I SHALL, from this moment forwards, type William S. Gilbert's lyrics and/or poetry in response.

249 posted on 03/11/2006 12:36:35 AM PST by nopardons
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To: Reagan Man
Instead of demanding a full inquiry into every aspect and every detail, Bush chose to pick a fight with the American people and the GOP Congress. By a 62-2 margin the House committee voted to oppose the DPW/UAE deal.

Congress voted to bypass the inquiry, not the president.

BTW the 62-2 vote also included a military appropriations bill to fund both Iraq and Afghanistan. You really have to have your head up your butt to ignore that fact and claim that all 62 of those votes were in opposition to the deal.

250 posted on 03/11/2006 12:40:46 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: nopardons
And NO, this man being an American counts for less than nothing with me

Yeah thats obvious...and sickening.

251 posted on 03/11/2006 12:44:05 AM PST by Walkin Man
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To: Walkin Man
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were Americans.

Should THAT fact have made their treason more palatable?

252 posted on 03/11/2006 12:46:59 AM PST by nopardons
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To: Reagan Man

Agree.


253 posted on 03/11/2006 12:49:32 AM PST by mississippi red-neck (You will never win the war on terrorism by fighting it in Iraq and funding it in the West Bank.)
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To: nopardons

Nice straw man attempt to get off a subject that apparently you don't want to face.


254 posted on 03/11/2006 12:52:32 AM PST by Walkin Man
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To: nopardons
Post to me or about me, again and I SHALL, from this moment forwards, type William S. Gilbert's lyrics and/or poetry in response.

I would never post ABOUT you, behind your back. But I may post TO you, and your proposed response will be music to my ears, as I am Gilbert reincarnate. [BTW, that is a flat-out lie - I never heard of the bloke 'til your mention]

Gilbert was knighted by Edward VII in 1907 and died in 1911, at age 74, while attempting to save a drowning woman.

http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/html/gilbert.html

From the same source, this, "Gilbert had shown a proclivity for caustic wit and sarcasm from an early age and it was this talent that put him on the path to greatness."

Well, I must say that I enjoy and participate in casutic wit and sarcasm (in moderation, of course), but in all humility cannot hold a candle to a master.

I am looking forward to a lesson, at your earliest convenience.

255 posted on 03/11/2006 12:53:03 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Walkin Man

Oh for pity sakes..........stop being so silly!


256 posted on 03/11/2006 12:53:25 AM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
Post to me or about me, again and I SHALL, from this moment forwards, type William S. Gilbert's lyrics and/or poetry in response.

What a fun fellow. He says, "I wasn't born with enough middle fingers."

257 posted on 03/11/2006 1:00:35 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: SteveMcKing

"I believe that the entire UAE is actually the CIA."

What do you mean exactly?


258 posted on 03/11/2006 1:07:39 AM PST by dubaijazz (Why?)
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To: McGavin999
Yeah, the media sure gives him LOTS of opportunities to explain things to us, when they're not asking about Abu Grabe or WMDs. Can't figure out why he can't get the "message out" especially with such a cooperative media.

Of course the MSM is staggeringly biased and fervently opposed to letting him promote his agenda. The exact same thing was true during the Reagan administration. The difference is that Reagan and his people were masterful at getting out the message despite the MSM, while Bush and his folks have done an abysmal job at the same.

In this particular instance, I think Bush was dead wrong and that the deal was doomed for failure no matter what, but I most certainly take no pleasure in the fact that Bush has once more totally failed at circumvention of the MSM.

MM

259 posted on 03/11/2006 1:19:13 AM PST by MississippiMan (Behold now behemoth...he moves his tail like a cedar. Job 40:17)
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To: Cboldt
Before I post some lovely lyrics, let me tell you that I know ALL about dear Schwenk. I have adored him all of my life. His lyrics and his poetry are brilliant and the man, himself, fascinating.

I have been to his home, Grym's Dyke ( it's now a hotel, where, in summer, they DO give performances of G&S operettas ), been all over the public rooms and grounds, and stood by the stone wall, which overlooks the waterway, where he died and cried. I also said a prayer for him there.

And now...here's just a wee bit of a song, meant especially for you. :-)

Whene're I poke

Sarcastic joke

Replete with malice spiteful.

This people mild

Politely smiled

And voted it delightful,

Now when a weight

Sits up all night

Ill-natured jokes devising,

And all his wiles

Are met with smiles

It's hard, there's no disguishing!

O, don't the days seem lank and long

When all goes right and nothing goes wrong,

And isn't you life extremely flat

With nothing whatever to grumble at!

260 posted on 03/11/2006 1:41:00 AM PST by nopardons
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