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.

[RushCrush]

I don't know why it's so difficult to understand the difference between port security and port ownership.

Would you mind the UAE owning a nuclear power plant here in the US if Americans still provided the security?

That depends, does the NSA oversee security at the power plant?

[jragan2001]

Agreed. What's worse is he seems very ignorant to the fact that many of the Republicans who are against this have to worry about running for office again, yet ol' Dubya is a lame duck and doesn't have to worry about being on another ballot.

[Junior_G]

I'm sorry. With you, it's religious bigotry, not racial. I forgot.

I took issue with you throwing this charge around willy-nilly even before you decided to sling it in my direction. There's not really much else to say about your pathetic attempts to shut down a debate that you aren't saying yourself.

[TheBrotherhood]

The guy is not home. That's all!

[ohioWfan]

It's disgusting because it is a leftist accusation. The President is a non-drinking problem drinker, and accusing him of drinking is beneath the fundamental decency of this forum (which has gone away temporarily because of the histrionics and hate slithering out from beneath the rocks).

btw, my 'theory' is that you don't have the facts straight.

[itsahoot]

These guys don't respect weakness - I know that liberals don't understand that but I thought that conservatives mostly did.

But, but he is a republican.......</ Sarcasm>

[sinkspur]

For once and finally...the public has if only tangentially 'profiled' the enemy...

You assume "the public" is on your side. I wouldn't be so hasty. I haven't seen any polling on this yet.

[DCPatriot]

So you are totally against the takeover regardless of the benefites this country might get from it?

I'm not a bushbot for wanting to share a foxhole with him.

He's the man and he's doing a damned good job.

IMO, we're all living with a legend. Some of us are just too young to appreciate it...or too blinded to recognize it.

[JeffAtlanta]

It's always a good idea to take one of the few allies we have in the theater, and kick them in the teeth.

It's not like the US is going to pillage their cities and rape their women. If a nation is going to stop being our ally because we don't want them to own our ports then were they really our ally in the first place?

Think about it, if an US company wanted to own ports in the UAE and the people of the UAE pushed back against it, would we as Americans go marching in the streets? No, we'd for the most part say that it was sound domestic policy.

[Xenophon450]

My fears are not unfounded. Hysteria is not 1400 years of history chronicling slaughter and devastation, it is Fact! Continue to shade yourself in self perpetuated ignorance if you wish.

The Jihad against the Arabs (622-634)

The Jihad against the Zoroastrians of Iran (634 -651)

The Jihad against the Byzantine Christians (634-1453)

The Jihad against the Egyptian Coptic Christians (640)

The Jihad against the Nubians – modern Sudanese, Ethiopians, Eritreans and Somalis (640 - 2004)

The Jihad against the Berbers of North Africa - Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco (640-711)

The Jihad against the Spanish and Portuguese (711-1492)

The Jihad against the Franks - ancient French (732-740)

The Jihad against the Italians in Sicily (812 -1571)

The Jihad against the Buddhist Chinese (650 -751)

The Jihad against the Turks (650-1050)

The Jihad against the Armenian and Georgian Christians

The Jihad against the Mongols (1050-1258)

The Jihad against the Hindus of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (638 - 1857)

The Jihad against the Serbs, Croats, and Albanians (1334 to 1920)

The Jihad against the Russians (1444-1918)

The Jihad against the Greeks and Bulgarians (1450 -1853)

The Jihad against the Indonesians and Malays (1450 to 1500)

The Jihad against the Israel (1948 - ongoing)

The Jihad against the Americans (2001 - ongoing)

The Jihad against the British from 1947 onwards)

The Jihad against the Filipinos in Mindanao from 1970 onwards

The Jihad against the Russians in Chechnya in the our times

The Jihad against Latin America in the our times

The Jihad against the Bulgarians (1393-1877)

The Jihad against the Indonesians (from 1450 onwards) and in our times in Malaku from 1990 onwards

http://www.historyofjihad.org/

[Eye of Unk]

I say if we allow this deal to go through we mandate the Swiss back out from performing the personal protection to the Pope and instead let an outfit owned by Muslims take over, or better yet a bodyguard service based in Tehran.

[sinkspur]

There's not really much else to say about your pathetic attempts to shut down a debate that you aren't saying yourself.

On the contrary, I'm not trying to shut down anything.

I'm identifying why you oppose this deal. Anybody who's a Muslim is suspect, right? In anything.

[Pukin Dog]

So now we have drinking charges along with calls for impeachment and the 'shrub' moniker too? Oh yeah, Bush listens to FReepers alright. Not one of our best days. Not even close. I'll stand with Sink on the bigotry charge. It seems pretty clear to me.

[BlackbirdSST]

"I decided to end my self-imposed exile from posting due to information that I received this past weekend from ‘a little birdie’ in Washington, which I subsequently had confirmed by another ‘insider’ if you can call him that....You know I won’t tell, so don’t bother asking me for names, links, or further information. I trust these individuals, and have received accurate information from them before Information was shared with me on Saturday, which described in no uncertain terms that Harriet Miers stands as the only nominee on Bush’s list which has any chance of confirmation by the Senate Judiciary Committee.... Luttig, McConnell, JRB, Owen, Alito, or anyone else you want to name, would have been defeated, and probably defeated in committee, in order to save other Senators from having to vote them down on the floor. Of this, I am now convinced. Only two names were considered allowable for Senate confirmation; Miers and Gonzales....In Miers, Bush has clearly taken what he can get, and our best hope now is for another vacancy on the court before this administration’s term is up.

Nice catch on the non-opus opus queen, certainly adds to his credibility, NOT! Blackbird.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

"but I'm not going to spend $3000 dollars on a $1000 TV, so some high school drop out, supported by his union thug can make $22 an hour. Sorry if that hurts some of my fellow NC residents feelings."

And when some chinese surface to air missile, paid for by the numerous, low-end labor produced products that china creates, goes up the stove pipe of our F-22 over the Taiwanese straits, after China launches its attack to reunify their cancer, that will began to seriously hurt my feelings.

[daybreakcoming]

"South Tower" kamikaze was from UAE...money and logistical planning for the 911 attack flowed from the UAE...

The Oklahoma City Bomber Timothy McVeigh was born and raised in New York, USA.
Remember him? The one who said the children killed were just collateral damage? UAE does not corner the market on terrorists, do they?

[TheBrotherhood]

"Would this be his first veto ever? I don't understand why he wants to drive away a large percentage of his base with this decision."

His base? "His" as in possession?

Humpty Dumpty is not running for anything in 2008. And don't expect any TV interviews after he leaves if no one is there to script him.

[JeffAtlanta]

Why draw the line at UAE? Why not ban any Muslim based company from doing anything in the United States?

There are lots of different kinds of businesses - some are more sensitive to foreign ownership than others. Owning Boeing for example, is different than owning a car lot.

[DoughtyOne]

I appologize for calling you a moron and suggesting that you must be drinking. That was unfair.

Take care.

D1

[RushCrush]

The Pope = our ports?

Surely you jest!

The pope has religious significance. Our ports do not.

And nobody owns the pope.