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.

[Rutles4Ever]

So because nothing has happened yet, it shouldn't be an issue?

Let's go back to the blissfully ignorant day of September 10, 2001 and ask these questions:

How many airplanes are in the U.S.?

How many boxcutters does it take to get inside the cockpit?

[Alberta's Child]

You completely missed my point, didn't you?

[chris1]

Am I wrong???????????????? Between his actions with V. Fox and now this, what else can explain this garbage???

[Canedawg]

Quote: i think the president knows what he is doing and why he is doing it.

that's all well and good, but WE don't know what and why he is doing it, and I thinking someone has some splainin' to do Lucy

[sure_fine]

At the Pentagon, the UAE was praised as an important strategic military partner by both Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Rumsfeld said a process was in place and "the process worked."

"Nothing changes with respect to security under the contract. The Coast Guard is in charge of security, not the corporation," Rumsfeld said.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PORTS_SECURITY?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-02-21-16-26-11

[Tulsa Ramjet]

"Just who do you think put out the information on this deal to begin with?"

Baghdad Bob?
As for Cheney, laying low from the mag covers probably.

[finnman69]

Anyone in the U.S. government who waited until February of 2006 to express their "concern" over this acquisition is nothing more than an opportunistic, pandering @sshole. And that goes for members of both political parties, too.

Especially the republicans like Pataki.

[jimbo123]

Rush's comments on "the economics make great sense" are pretty vague. Nothing about who benefits... Quoting some imaginary economists... Not much of case for why it benefits the American people.

[Alberta's Child]

American ports should be managed by American companies.

Could you name one such company?

[sinkspur]

The UAE is no friend to Bush or the U.S. No moslem country is a friend to the U.S.

That's xenophobia, which is exactly what Bush is trying to avoid.

You simply don't know what you're talking about which is why you really should stop talking.

[sangrila]

http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/npr/vol06/64/db64.pdf




"On 25 May 1999, UAE Minister for Information
and Culture Shaykh Abdullah Bin
Zayid Al Nuhayyan met with Pakistani
nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Kahn at A.
Q. Khan Research Laboratories in
Rawalpindi. Zaiyid was interested in obtaining
Pakistani help in the nuclear field. Khan
replied: “Pakistan would not present the
atomic bomb or a missile on a platter but
could train UAE manpower.”
Pakistan (Islamabad), 26 May 1999,


Now this country is operating major ports on the east coast. I suppose operating a port does not give this company any insight into our vulnerabilities. Why does a country that helped facilitate 9/11 deserve our business?

[isrul]

"Pretty soon you're going to come out against profiling Middle Eastern men at airports. Maybe we can start shipping some white collar prisoners down to Gitmo just to even things out. We wouldn't want to look like bigots. "

I wish you didn't say that. It will only give some of these folks ideas.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

"You completely missed my point, didn't you?"

When it was as dull as a crutch pad, how could I not?

[onyx]

Politically, it's a TONE DEAF deal. I am learning the UAE's participation is not what I had imagined, but it's still a tone deaf deal.

I am anxious to hear from President Bush and from every other principle with facts.

[ears_to_hear]

One needs to wonder why this is.

Are we buying a false peace by appeasing the Muslims and the Chinese?

We are appeasing Mexico with an open Southern border, ( not open enough though it seems)

And now our sea borders could be compromised.

I understand that a part of this contract will have a component with our military.

Without public pressure a US oil company would have been sold to China.


I would like to know why the president is so set on a deal that he supposedly did not know about until the other day.

[BearArms]

Just a couple comments. There are many who seem to sincerely believe that Bush was put into office by God and, therefore, can do no wrong. They support him despite his outrageous, and frankly unconservative, policies in certain areas. This largely explains the BushBot phenomenon. It's an irrational messianic support for a skilled and probably quite cynical politician who is adept at convincing certain people that he possesses divine sanction.

Also, Rush Limbaugh has become a total and unashamed sycophant whore for the administration and the Republican establishment. That is all.

[chris1]

I see the presidential knee pads are almost worn out.

[jimbo123]

So it seems Rush's and Hannity's audiences don't support the deal...

[Peach]

Iran, or anyother terrorist hell-hole hideout anywhere in the world. Congratulations for injecting some mental clarity onto a predominently hysteria-driven thread. With it's share of little known posters, as usual, as well as those who can always be counted on to knee-jerk their way ever deeper into foolishness.

I thought that was worth repeating. Otherwise, this deal doesn't make sense.

I know my stepson was stationed in Jordan in early 2003 as we prepared to go into Iraq; it was something that we agreed not to publicize at the time.

[prairiebreeze]

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