Posted on 02/19/2006 10:30:27 AM PST by LibWhacker
The Bush administration will reverse its decision to allow a Dubai company based in the United Arab Emirates to gain control over several key U.S. ports, the Fox News Channel's Brit Hume predicted on Sunday.
"I don't think the administration will be able to sustain this," Hume told "Fox News Sunday." "I think it will have to reverse itself in some way or create some entity that stands between the company and the management of the ports."
"I just don't think [the decision] can stand," he added. "It doesn't sound good to let some Arab shieks to be in charge of our ports - that's what it comes down to."
Appearing on the same program, Sen. Lindsey Graham slammed the ports decision, saying, "It's unbelievably tone deaf politically at this point in our history, four years after 9/11, to entertain the idea of turning port security over to a company based in the U.A.E., who avows to destroy Israel."
In a decision announced last week, the Bush administration's Committee on Foreign Investment approved the purchase of six major U.S. ports by the U.A.E.-based Dubai Ports World.
The move set off a firestorm of criticism, with skeptics complaining that banks in the U.A.E. have helped launder money for terrorists and that the country itself was home to Marwan al Shehhi, the Sept. 11 hijacker who piloted United Airlines Flight 175 into Tower 2 of the World Trade Center.
On Friday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended the Dubai deal, telling a Mideast news outlet: "There was a thorough review. It was decided that this could be done and done safely."
They say this like it is a bad thing. The "lingerie" charges are a front for prostitution, or limosine service. It should still be investigated, with open hearings.
LOL
"...Rice defended the Dubai deal, telling a Mideast news outlet: "There was a thorough review. It was decided that this could be done and done safely."
My G-d, our SoS argues that we can safely turn over our strategic ports to our sworn enemies.
beam me up scotty
Yes those are the "real" sleepers.
I wonder whether you'll have to be a muzzie to get into the Longshoreman's Union???
With MNJohnnie everything's about politics, even when it comes to national security. If the democrats are against something as they are here then we MUST all be for it. There's no gray area with him, it's just black and white.
As long as a UAE company owns the ports, they're going to have considerable influence over how they are run, and there's the danger. IMHO.
When you lay with the pigs........you smell like the pigs........when you brown nose........well.......you smell like the pigs.....!!! You insult the integrity of FReepers when you try to convince us that something we KNOW is wrong.......is right...!! Give it a rest.......our eyes have been opened to Bush's destruction of America!!! IF you would get your nose out of his.......well......you know, you might be able to SEE the truth.
Good. How this deal was even allowed to get this far is unfathomable. It's a huge blow to the perception that Republicans are better on national defense.
Regardless of the details, the simple headline that UAE controls our ports is a political sinkhole.
"I just don't think [the decision] can stand," he added. "It doesn't sound good to let some Arab shieks to be in charge of our ports - that's what it comes down to."
Funny... this is EXACTLY what my husband said to me on Friday. [I wish he'd stop doing that. ;)]
"I guess considering how frequently and easy the Democrats lie these days, a real journalist would be HIGHLY suspicious of a story the Democrat Senate Election committee is pushing"
I am more suspicious of the line you are pushing...as if it's no big deal to allow muslims (aka terrorists) to run our strategic ports.
It is a big deal and it must be stopped even if takes demoncraps to do it. How disgusting is that? I don't know about some others, but for me, it's a mega barf alert of gargantuan proportions.
beam me up scotty
Agreed.
It certainly is stupid, very stupid IMHO. Putting a Arab owned company in charge of American ports may be safe if what I have read about the people who will actually operate the ports is correct. But it's an absolute disaster from a public relations standpoint.
Allowing this sale to go through would just be tossing the Democrats an underhand slow pitch for them to hit out of the ballpark. National defense/homeland security is by far the Repubs strongest point in the minds of the general public, why allow the Dems to knock a big hole in that strong point when it isn't necessary?
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