Posted on 02/21/2006 6:17:44 AM PST by Tatze
Former President Jimmy Carter downplayed criticism of White House support of an Arab-owned company's purchase of a major seaport-operations firm.
BY LESLEY CLARK
lclark@MiamiHerald.com
WASHINGTON - President Bush is taking a battering from fellow Republicans, even the governors of New York and Maryland, over the administration's support for a decision that gives an Arab company control of some commercial operations at six major seaports -- including Miami-Dade's.
But he got a boost Monday from an unlikely source, frequent critic and former president Jimmy Carter, who downplayed fears that the deal poses a risk.
''The overall threat to the United States and security, I don't think it exists,'' Carter said on CNN's The Situation Room. ``I'm sure the president's done a good job with his subordinates to make sure this is not a threat.''
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I've heard from Moe and Larry, where's Shemp?
True alliances will out. ; )
Thats enough to worry us now if jammy thinks it's good.
Good grief, is that the best you can do?
Since when did Jimmy Carter's opinion become relevant? Or Al Gore's? Neither were worth a damn when they were in office and nobody cared...why does the media believe that we care now? Jimmy Carter was not heard from in the 1980s and 1990s...all of a sudden in the last 3 years this guy is in the papers every single day!
WHO CARES?
OK, the first one is old news, but I had no idea that the Bots were into kinky bondage fantasies....
I admit it was a little pedestrian and not at all imaginative, I'll try to be better after my next cup of coffee.
lol
If I ever had any doubt about the wisdom of the ports deal, Carter's endoresement has convinced me that it must be even worse than I suspected. He is the award-winner for bad judgment. Therefore, if he's for it, it must be horrible for our country. Among other tragedies, he is responsible for all the evil that has gone on in Iran for the past 25 years, including the current nuclear threat. Thanks President Carter. The world would have been a better place if you had stayed on the peanut farm.
It must be a sign that the world is about to end..
Go back and restudy your history squid...the Carter and Bush agreement on foreign Islamic powers controlling the future of our ports ranks right up there with Chamberlain's 1938's agreement with Germany on the future of Czechoslovakia's right to rule a small portion of its nation known as the Sudetenland!
...go look in a mirror, you'll find him!
Poor meandog Boo hoo hoo :(
No actually they're in a temporary retreat until they can get their talking points/spin in synch.
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Carter agrees? Proof that this was a bad decision.
I don't agree with you. The situations are not analogous in the least. And I think the whole Bush = Hitler/his supporters = Nazis has been done to death. You may have a valid point about the imprudence of outsourcing control of ports to a foreign nation, especially one from a hostile region, but you do yourself a disservice by couching things in terms such as you have.
Take your "Bushbot" insult and put it where the sun don't shine.
(1) I am a supporter of the President.
(2) I do not -- repeat -- do not support this port deal.
(3) It is entirely possible to be a supporter of GWB and to disagree with this or other administration policies.
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