SAVAGE INTERVIEWING CHUCK SCHUMER!

[outofhere2]

Michael Savage is talking to Chuck Schumer at this very minute.

[Pukin Dog]

all you need are few well placed people in the operations area, to help facilitate the shipment you need to covertly get into the country.

So, you think that the UAE (our alley) is going to start ordering the British company to start hiring some swarthy A-Rab for the purpose of blowing up one of our ports?

Is that what you are saying? Never mind the fact that if that were to happen(and it wont), you don't think some Brit is going to go public and raise holy hell about it?

They bought the company because it makes money. Not so they can control its operations. Investments like this are not made for the sake of ideology. It is about PROFITS.

[Alberta's Child]

They didn't have to pay $6.8 billion to do that. Anyone who is familiar with the endemic corruption and criminal activity that has been a way of life at these ports for decades will tell you that buying off "a few well-placed people" would be much cheaper than that.

[MikeA]

"They are all in the same boat, a perfect avenue to aid terrorism."

What a really silly comment. All Arabs are terrorists? Get a grip. Don't resort to racism to rescue an untenable argument. It's unseemly and intellectually dishonest.

[WoofDog123]

well the merger does not have to be 'good' in order to go through, but it does need to be deemed 'bad' to be stopped. I have seen this sort of stuff over the chinese-ports in panama and at the end of the day it is the same workforce doing the same things.

Honestly I think this is a non-issue, and that is why the democrats are on it. Why not talk about the mexican border if we are concerned about things being brought in?

[P-40]

You're as taxing as the leftists.


So when the ports are sold will we collect sales tax? :)

[oceanview]

dine, so let them cancel the contracts right NOW for the US ports.

[trubluolyguy]

A raving lunatic talking to a schmuck. I'm underwhelmed

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Yeah but which is which?

[Alberta's Child]

I know the other 50% partner is a foreign company, and you may be right about it being a Dutch company.

[Pukin Dog]

This aint no merger. They bought them. They bought them because they make money. And you believe that they don't care about all those billions, they just want to blow our asses up.

You read that again, and tell me how much sense that makes.

[FreeReign]

We can argue about whether that's right or wrong, but let's be accurate about what's really happening here.

Schumer plus Savage does not yield accuracy.

[frankiep]

There are things I think that the Bush Administration does well, and things I think they do pretty poorly. Spin control and reacting to news reports are one of the the things they do very poorly. I didn't think it was possible to do as poorly in this arena as the BA has.

[boomop1]

We welcome our enemy in Trojan horse you are the one who is clueless or seriously disturbed.

[Alberta's Child]

Odd as this may sound, security at U.S. ports is handled by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Try again.

[RegulatorCountry]

"The answer is that they didn't have a damn thing to say about those two acquisitions, which tells me that they really don't give a flying sh!t about "national security" issues."

And I don't give a flying shiite about Schumer or King. They are irrelevant opportunists, who were provided this idiotic opportunity due to a strange miscalculation, given the mood of the country after having been attacked by radical Islam. Can you vouch for this UAE entity, insofar as their not having personnel sharing these radical Islamist beliefs, that have been proven quite a few times over the past five years to be very dangerous to our country? You can't.

[Pukin Dog]

UAE will be in charge of security personnel. Hiring security personnel. That does not mean changes?

Why would you believe such a thing? Because SCHUMER says so? Have we learned NOTHING?

[oceanview]

how are they going to know who they are? were the flight training schools able to "go public" about the pilots being trained for 9-11? they didn't know anything until it happened, and neither would these companies should some well placed operatives arrive as mangement in the shipping company, or in the form of one of their subcontractors (easier way to get someone in).

[outofhere2]

You are splitting hairs. The UAE will have control of our ports. Six ports. One in New York and Philadephia. How can people reach through a thick skull, honestly?

[durasell]

He's theatrical. He takes an issue that is of concern to most Americans and overstates its impact and then advocates a simplistic, yet extreme solution.

It's part of a trend in which complex problems are presented as having simple, common sense solutions. In my opinion, this is a dangerous trend.

[Dane]

And I don't give a flying shiite about Schumer or King. They are irrelevant opportunists, who were provided this idiotic opportunity due to a strange miscalculation, given the mood of the country after having been attacked by radical Islam.

If you don't care about king and schumer then why are you parroting their talking points.

[Stellar Dendrite]

In fact, the 9/11 Commission notes UAE involvement in Islamist terrorism in several spots:

Page 138: "Even after Bin Ladin’s departure from the area, CIA officers hoped he might return, seeing the camp as a magnet that could draw him for as long as it was still set up.The military maintained readiness for another strike opportunity.160 On March 7, 1999, [Richard] Clarke called a UAE official to express his concerns about possible associations between Emirati officials and Bin Ladin.Clarke later wrote in a memorandum of this conversation that the call had been approved at an interagency meeting and cleared with the CIA." [This involved Clarke blowing a cover on a covert operation.]

Page 167: "In early 2000,Atta, Jarrah, and Binalshibh returned to Hamburg. Jarrah arrived first, on January 31, 2000.97 According to Binalshibh, he and Atta left Kandahar together and proceeded first to Karachi, where they met KSM and were instructed by him on security and on living in the United States. Shehhi apparently had already met with KSM before returning to the UAE.Atta returned to Hamburg in late February, and Binalshibh arrived shortly thereafter. Shehhi’s travels took him to the UAE (where he acquired a new passport and a U.S. visa), Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and one or more other destinations."

Page 171: "Bin Ladin relied on the established hawala networks operating in Pakistan, in Dubai, and throughout the Middle East to transfer funds efficiently."

Page 216: "On June 20, Hanjour returned home to Saudi Arabia. He obtained a U.S. student visa on September 25 and told his family he was returning to his job in the UAE. Hanjour did go to the UAE, but to meet facilitator Ali Abdul
Aziz Ali.62"

Page 224: "The Hamburg operatives paid for their flight training primarily with funds wired from Dubai by KSM’s nephew,Ali Abdul Aziz Ali. Between June 29 and September 17, 2000,Ali sent Shehhi and Atta a total of $114,500 in five transfers ranging from $5,000 to $70,000."

Page 236: "After training in Afghanistan, the operatives went to a safehouse maintained by KSM in Karachi and stayed there temporarily before being deployed to the United States via the UAE. ... Ali apparently assisted nine
future hijackers between April and June 2001 as they came through Dubai. He helped them with plane tickets, traveler’s checks, and hotel reservations; he also taught them about everyday aspects of life in the West, such as purchasing clothes and ordering food. Dubai, a modern city with easy access to a major airport, travel agencies, hotels, and Western commercial establishments,was an ideal transit point."


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