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.

[EveningStar]

I trust the Prez too but this is still pretty funny.

[yellowdoghunter]

I understand.

I plan on waiting to see how this plays out and also to see what Dr. Coburn has to say about the matter. FoxNews is now reporting that Pres. Bush did not know about this deal until a few days ago...I have a feeling more will be coming out about how this deal was reached, etc....I am always for gathering more facts.

[Sunnyflorida]

Yours is a great post and restores my faith in the concept that there is intelligent life in the blogosphere.

The alternate provision would be for the pathetic and corrupt and gutless democrat controlled Ports of Authority to simply cancel their contracts with P&O.

This whole debate shows me the eductation standard is not very high.

[chris1]

"There are gangs who roam around here high fiving each other for being more insulting and obnoxious than the next. You're not even close."

VRWC??????????????

[ohioWfan]

LOL! If you imagine yourself bold and conservative because you are rude and obnoxious, so be it.

The VRWC distinguishes itself by being reasoned and RIGHT. We win in the battle of ideas, not in food fights.

You are clearly neither reasoned, nor right...........so stop patting your little self on the back, get educated, and stop throwing your mashed potatoes.

[ohioWfan]

So...........you're French, eh? (why do things suddenly make sense to me? :)

Can you translate? I only know German, Latin, Swedish and Spanish.

[ohioWfan]

Bottom line is: Do you trust President Bush on National Security?

Yes or no.

An unequivocal YES, DBR.........as does anyone else with the sense God gave them.....

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I know for sure there is more to than than meets the eye. But GW has taken a very firm stand on it- I also do not think he is foolish enough to jump into something he did not understand. There is a reason for all of this.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Right! Me too. :]

[JeffAtlanta]

The part that explained that you quoted ONLY PART of the statement, rendering it 100% inaccurate.

You quoted a totally different press conference and spokesman than I did. You quoted some guy named McCormack while the spokesman I quoted is named Cooper.

Why is it so hard for you to admit that you jumped the gun? What I quoted was not a snippet of what your quoted but a totally different press conference.

What you quoted was not THAT bad but the spokesman that I quoted was VERY bad. Again, don't accuse me of lying if you aren't even reading my posts and understanding that I am talking about a totally different spokesman and press conference.

[JeffAtlanta]

Name one shipping company from the landlocked country of Iran.

Nice dodge by being obtuse. The question, of course, was a hypothetical and I'm sure you were aware of that.

Regardless, why would Iran need to own a previous shipping company? Being landlocked doesn't mean anything either as even landlocked countries can still own shipping companies - the maintenance facilities don't have to be in the nation that owns the company.

So again, would you object if this were Iran rather than UAE?

[ohioWfan]

What I quoted was the official State Department position on the cartoon situation.

The true reflection of the Bush administration's position was that it had empathy for the Muslim offense, but strongly defended the freedom of the press.

Stating anything different was deliberately misleading, Jeff. Covering your tracks when faced with the truth doesn't help your cause. The truth is the truth.

And what you said was not an accurate reflection of the Bush administration policy, NOR the State Department's position.

You need to apologize for the deceit, or at least admit that you didn't have a clue as to what the administration had said in full.

[JeffAtlanta]

But GW has taken a very firm stand on it- I also do not think he is foolish enough to jump into something he did not understand. There is a reason for all of this.

He has taken a firm stand on being weak on illegal immigration as well ("illegals just do work that Americans won't do") so he does have his shortcomings on areas where he is "firm".

He was also firm on Harriet Miers and we all know how that turned out.

[JeffAtlanta]

What I quoted was the official State Department position on the cartoon situation.

So did I. Spokesmen aren't always in lockstep.

[JeffAtlanta]

Stating anything different was deliberately misleading, Jeff. Covering your tracks when faced with the truth doesn't help your cause. The truth is the truth.

Then someone needs to fire this Cooper guy because he isn't doing a good job at explaining official US policy.

Why is it so hard for you to grasp that I made an assertion and then backed it up with a quote and thread about it on FR. There was no backtracking or deceit. You chose to quote a different spokesman and a different press conference.

[tcrlaf]

The more I learn about this deal, the less reasons I see to stop it...

I agree...
Let's see if the Dem-Controlled Ports Authorities have the stones to cancel these contracts, pay the huge cancellation penalties, then explain the job losses and loss of revenue...

I think a LOT of this outrage is because the CongressCritters/K Street see that they lost a chance to bilk MILLIONS of dollars from the Arab Money Pump in return for support...

Ports ops is a competitive business, with tiny margins. Perhaps we could turn them over to HALIBURTON on a subsidized contract??

[JeffAtlanta]

I just question when the average citizen- with no security clearance and no briefings feels they have the information needed to question our Commander and Chief during a time of war.

Did you question Johnson, Carter or Clinton in their foreign policy actions? If so, how could you since they had a higher security clearance and access to briefings are you did not.

[meandog]

Can you translate? I only know German, Latin, Swedish and Spanish...

Well, in Latin it would translate roughly as "Aut insanit homo aut versus facit"...sorry, but I speak very little Spanish, no Swedish, and don't really care to learn the language of a people who insanely followed a madman in setting the world on fire in the 1940s.

[ohioWfan]

Jeff..............you're not getting away with this.

Your point was to say bash President Bush and say that his official position was AGAINST the freedom of the press.

And THAT was deceitful.

There are leftist lifers in the State Dept. They could be quoted as saying anything...........as could those in the Pentagon or the CIA.

Your intent was to mislead.......or you were ignorant of the actual truth. Either way, you were wrong.