[Stellar Dendrite]

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[oceanview]

King will not let this go, if the administration doesn't move to toss this - its going to lead to hearings, and the UAE lobbying efforts are going to be exposed.

any way you slice it - politically and otherwise - this deal stinks and the adminsitration needs to reverse it. this is a Harriet Miers redux.

[standingfirm]

More on this topic here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1582127/posts

[B.O. Plenty]

Tony Snow spent about all of his program this morning arguing for the UAE deal. One of his arguments was that the Dubai company wouldn't have any control over the security, computer system, loading and unloading, or personel.

My question then is, what in the hell do they have control over?

The only conclusion that I could come up with is:

THE MONEY!......and if they control the money....they control everything.

Note to the Bush Administration:

Kill the deal!

[Smartaleck]

Question. Why would a successful economic concern allow, say, a dirty bomb into a port for the purposes of destroying that port and thus their money maker?

Both the CIA and State Dept have given them, Dubai, high marks for backing us on war on terror.

While it's true that they may have missed and allowed contraband through their ports, we have massive amounts coming across our souther borders every day.

The guy overseeing the operation is an American as I understand it.

Not saying yes or no, but not kneejerking either.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

UAE Port Operations

[Shaka]

Kill the deal..this is getting stupid.

[Sun]

Rush mentioned Halliburton to do the job.

Call your U.S. Senators and congresscritters, and tell them to forget politics (especially if they are Dems) and get Halliburton.

[MNJohnnie]

Here is what the Port story is about. A DNC press release was sent out by Chucky Schumer for the Democrat Senate Election Committee. It is full of rumor, innuendo and guilt by association. A bunch of junk journalists picked up the story and without checking a SINGLE fact printed the story. A bunch of meat head grandstanding Republicans Congress Critters on Kneepads, read the story and freaked out WITHOUT bothering to find out a single fact.

The Security Agencies, who did all the investigation and background checks were blown off or sneered at by the Democrats, their junk journalists propagandists and Republican Congress critter Media whores. Meanwhile the FACTS of the case are being ignored in order for everyone to gleefully parrot a DEMOCRAT Press release.

HERE is the logical diagram on this story. A company based in UAE is taking over port operations. UAE is an Arab Country. Arabs committed 9-11. Bush is turning Port Security over to the Terrorists! Not ONE fact or logically valid assumption is presented in any of these stories. The fact that the Port Operation company has NO security functions is either willfully or inadvertently left OUT of the story. Instead it is all basically a racist, guilty by accusation and rumor smear job. The people who ACTUALLY know the facts like DHS etc are being laughed at or ignored so supposed "Conservatives" can gleefully push Democrat Election Campaign propaganda.

Simply amazing how willfully ignorant some "Conservatives" are about how the Junk Journalists lie to them. Just like Flush the Koran, Rather Gate, Fitzmus, Downing Street Memo and dozens and dozens of other LIES manufactured by the DNC and fed to the Failed Media, THIS story is a LIE.