Bush will veto any bill to stop port deal

AP ALERT

[Brian Mosely]

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Bush says the deal allowing an Arab company to take over six major U.S. seaports should go forward and he will veto any bill that would stop it.

[Itzlzha]

POST OF THE DAY!!!!

from Laz...

"The Bush Administration is simply the Clinton Administration with slightly cleaner rugs."

[RexBeach]

No good will come of this. This whole issue will blow up right in the White House's kisser...unless it slowly backs away from it as they did with the Meirs nomination.

Thoughts?

[houeto]

Bush Clinton Bush Clinton

Shouldn't that have been in quotation marks?

[jdm]

"Absolutely stupid decision by Bush. Bad for US security, bad for the Republicans, bad for Bush."

It's especially troubling because now 'rats like Chuck Schumer and John Kerry who, all along, believed the WOT to be a nuisance, can scream "The President isn't protecting us. How can we trust him now?" Not that the American people, by and large, will buy into 'rat rhetoric, but surely 30 to 40% will.

[oyez]

Is there anything they will not do for a buck?

I do believe Hillery Clinton will be our next president. Its a done deal.

[DC Ripper]

So everyone is concerned is a "bedwetter?"

Get lost.

[cripplecreek]

Did you ever get the impression that the republicans and democrats are just handing control back and forth in a game of keep away. (meaning keep the power away from the people)

[DeaconRed]

"Apparently, there is more to this than meets the eye."

I have felt this way since I first heard it.
Something is going on here.

[michigander]

Bush presses deal allowing Arab co. to take over six major U.S. seaports

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

February 21, 2006, 3:38 PM EST

WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Tuesday that the deal allowing an Arab company to take over six major U.S. seaports should go forward and that he would veto any congressional effort to stop it.

[meandog]

BUSH IS AN IDIOT!

[chris1]

GWB is officially Damien Thorn!

[dfwgator]

The thing is, even if Bush vetoed it, the veto probably would end up being overturned in the courts.

[demlosers]

UAE could be a staging area for airstrikes and special forces operations against Iran.

Yes, we do have an operational Air Base in Bahrain, which is part of the Persian Gulf States that has close ties to UAE.

[jimbo123]

Time to call your congressman/woman and tell them to override any veto. If Bush doesn't care about the long-term implications of this decision, we'll have to take care of business ourselves. You lost me, Mr. President.

Write Your Representatives and Senators...

http://www.house.gov/writerep/

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

[Zuben Elgenubi]

James Zogby is complaining that it's racist NOT to sell the ports to Arabs. I say, let's get a poll as to whether the American people want Arabs controlling American ports. I had no problem with the Brits because they've been our allys for such a long time and we have a shared, Western value system. What do we do next, outsource NORAD to the Chinese?

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Keep your Freinds close and your enemys closer !

[hipaatwo]

Whoever I talked to around here isn't happy, be it dem or pubbie. I'm so close to the river, not downtown but not very far either.

[OXENinFLA]

Welcome to BIZZARO WORLD.............

[Esther Ruth]

Well, and W had Rush blathering on for 3 hours, spinning it this way and that, all praise to the UAE, why Rush loved the UAE more than the DNC and thought they'd do a great job w the ports. Then he spins it another way saying it is GOP strategy to force the dems to name the UAE as terrorists, yea right. Then to try and shut up all the decent he ends his third hour w an assurance not to worry, the UAE when all said and done would not handle the ports anyway. And the Rush thread of the day last time I looked was reminding all who disagreed w this decision that W did NOT have to answer to any one and that NO, the US is not a democracy.

[steve86]

Dubai allows for women to dress as they wish and allows for Christians to worship as they please.

How does Oman (right in the same neighborhood) compare? My wife just corresponded with a long-lost friend there and ran into one restriction right away.