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.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

Ever heard of the city of Dubai? Look it up.

Oh that won't work! The powers that be have already changed all the websites in a favorable fashion! You think we are dupes??? This is the patriot act gone completely awry! :)

[dirtboy]

But I'm not willing to take a chance on my children's lives for money

IMO the most deadly way for terrorists to attack a major American city would be a dirty bomb or large chemical or bio weapon on a ship-borne container. I don't want ANY Islamic country having control over any of of ports for that reason - all it takes is a couple of sleepers working their way up in the management structure to be sure to not find the weapon when it arrives.

[chris1]

And what if that Gov't changes to a more radical sect????

[luckystarmom]

Not me. I think it sounds ridiculous.

[clawrence3]

What is the Dutch official religion?

[defenderSD]

IMO, the veto "promise" has got to be related to a key national security issue, i.e., the Iranian nuclear weapons program.

[MineralMan]

"There is more to this story than we know."

And that's what worries a lot of us, you see.

[RightWhale]

The Prez says we live in a dangerous world. He might also say that we don't know much about the world we live in. His training is in history rather than law, and Congress is mostly lawyers rather than philosophers. Who do you trust, one who works any side of an issue depending who is paying him, or one who possibly sees historical trends that no one else is privy to? Blind faith? Not really.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I keep reminding myself that President Bush told us that thing would look weird during this war on terror- but that we had to have faith in him. I disagree with this on its face- but I do have faith in the President and this administration.

I am not a Bush Bot- but I think I am going to take the stand that I have no idea what this is all about.

[W04Man]

Finn, these friggen DUMMIES are going off half cocked. They didn't even look into this, they just jumped on board with Shumer at the first crack of the whip! GWB knows what he is doing. Did you listen to Alberto and Ridge today?

[Democratshavenobrains]

Why does Bush always do this? He does things like proclaim Harriet Miers will go forward, and then a week later, nothing has changed but he changes direction.

[wallcrawlr]

he is against America defending itself from foreign invaders.

ummm....ooooookaayy

Might be time to ease up on the caffiene...

[taxesareforever]

I have a thought on this. I believe that Bush really doesn't want the Arabs to take this over and he knew if he came out against it he would catch flak from the liberals for discrimination. Therefore he came out for it knowing it would be contested in Congress and that they would bipartisanlly vote it down.

[NorseWood]

The next thing you know, we'll turn over the Panama Canal . . . oops!

[Swordfished]

One DOES NOT HAND OVER IMPORTANT PORTS, VIOLATING ONE'S NATIONAL SECURITY to a country to keep them engaged.

the ports were already run by the British

[Lazamataz]

Its very simple, he is sticking to his guns reguardless of what anyone thinks.. Further shows that he is a man of his word - if its popular or not. It also shows he doesnt care about polls what so ever, which I think is great. I dont think the deal will pass (they will prob have enough votes to override his veto), but he stuck with it.

So say he decided today to totally suspend the bill of rights (more than it is now)? Would you be as impressed with his intractability?

[indcons]

Do you know that the UAE, Saudia, and Pakistan were the only countries to recognize the barbaric Taliban govt?

I guess all this is forgiven because they serve alcohol un their bars, right? /sarc

[Bikers4Bush]

My thoughts exactly. If he really said that, and I have no reason to doubt he did, then he has proven himself to be completely out of touch with those he is supposed to serve.

For god's sake all of our problems with terrorists have originated in the middle east. To not be willing to acknowledge that fact is disturbing to me.

[KJC1]

Did anyone else here see President Bush speak on this (on Fox News) a few minutes ago?

He said the Dubai company would NOT be in charge of port security, that that would rest with the Coast Guard and Customs.