Posted on 02/21/2006 12:32:20 PM PST by 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.
I'm not as concerned about entitlements as I am with morality, integrity, safety, a strong military, and an honorable man in the White House.
Enjoy your anger. You're going to have it with you for the rest of your (probably very short) life. I pray that God will release you from your burden of anger and hate at some point....... soon.
bttt
and love your tag
You sound excatly like a campaign commercial.
How did he clean up corporate corruption???
This is true of everyone you attack on this forum.
Our country comes first. That is why we are thankful to God that he has given us such an honorable man to lead it.
Long after Bush is gone, our love for country will remain strong...........and we will remember warmly when we were led by a man who shared our love of country for these eight years. Just like we remember warmly the eight years of Ronald Reagan.
Did you see Gladiator? This situation remeinds me very much about that movie when Maximus was fighting abroad for the idea of "Rome" while Rome itself was decaying.
People will never remember GWB as they did Reagan.
You have a very short memory, chris. Like I said earlier, you need to read more. Stop listening to the thugs you travel with on this forum. They're leading you astray.
(That corporate stuff sounds a lot like leftist propaganda, chris. Are your true colors showing through again?)
They are parallel leaders. Don't let the vapors of nostalgia keep you from understanding the reality of Reagan compromise and government growth.
Yeah............right.
Thanks for the post. I do consider the UAE leadership to be among the allies of the U.S. in the Middle-East. I also consider the leadership of Saudi Arabia to be one of our allies. I'm glad to count them as such.
The problem for me, is that their populace is either laced with Wahabis, or a significant presence of problematic individuals that we can not be certain there are not going to be sleeper cells amoung them.
In the old days, would we have allowed U.S.S.R. representatives to take over certain functions in the west? No, we wouldn't because their leadership was problematic. On another level, the peoples of Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. cause concern for much the same reasons, even though their leadership has shown a positive nature.
We talk of fighting this battle on foreign soil. I think most of us consider that to be the optimal situation. With regard to that, I also think that it's wise to utilize our allies in the battle over there, continue our business relationships and enhance them over there, even allow them to invest in the U.S. if they like. I do not think it advisable to allow them to gain control of certain enterprises, this port deal being one of them.
We have extended our hands to the Middle-Eatern nations for deacades via our purchase of their products. Did that prevent 09/11? No. We can flatter ourselves that we can change those nations via trade and business deals, but the facts are that didn't work in the past.
Continue the close relations in most regards. I support that. I do not support giving a Middle-Eastern nation as prominent a role as this in our ports.
Thanks again.
State attorney general offices prosecuted these people, not the DOJ.
OK Folks...
It's time to take a breath, and take a REAL look at things...
We are talking about a company that ALREADY loads 9 MILLION containers a year heading for the US. Again, this is a tempest in a teapot, as far as I'm concerned, a lot of racial hatred/bigotry is showing through, and it's making us look like the stereotypical UGLY AMERICANS overseas.....
I am beginning to believe that the REAL reason for the furor over this is that our Congress Critters and K Street realized they missed a chance to fleece a bunch of Arabs out of MILLIONS to buy support for the deal....
Call me crazy, but I see DOLLAR SIGNS all over this!!!
Isn't it always about following the money?
Frankly, I don't care anymore what those barbarians think about us. They hated us before, they hate us now, and will hate us tommorow.
Whose pockets are getting lined with this one?
Ahhhhhh, for those halcyon days of Reagan. (sarcasm)
I love the Gipper; he did a tremendous amount of good, but he compromised mightily because he had to. Like all Presidents (unless they're dictators, which doesn't fly in America). His rhetoric was flawless and you couldn't tell he was compromising nearly as much as he really was. When you look at the actual record it was not as flawless as were his communications to his supporters.
That's life. We're not in heaven, where all will be perfeçt.
Interesting that he's threatening to use his previously unused 'veto pen' on this."
I concur with your observation totally.
And the "veto pen" irony is staggering.
But now suddenly, the latest Spin is the Dubai Operation may be a quid pro quo deal in lieu of "borrowing" a base to get closer to Iran (with whom it has a petty territorial dispute.)
THAT "strategery" somehow justifies entrusting the "infidel's" ports to a Muslim country with dubious money laundering and organizational ties to terrorism.
Bush is wrong on this one. And you know what EV, at least you step away from your computer and actually go outside your home and work for what you believe in. Win or lose, it is better than sitting at home all day and doing nothing.
President Bush is right up front. No pretense. No rhetoric. We know what's going on while it's happening.
After the fact, both men will be remembered as being strong pro-American conservatives who made some mistakes, but were great Presidents whose policies led to greater freedom and safety around the world and as a result, here at home.
(Why can't these people understand this??)
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