Posted on 02/21/2006 2:58:26 PM PST by sofaman
Time for The Great One!!! Come one come all!!!
To be fair, Michelle Malkin on her website called Carter's support of the port deal "the kiss of death."
Does not sound good at all.
Sorry for MIA. I've been doing a little work for the state. About 5 to 10 year "contract" (ha).
she's right!
I think Mark is dissappointing me, because he usually has the facts together.
I agree with him that this deal doesn't do anything FOR us. And if Bush was proposing to launch this deal, I would oppose it.
But the deal has NOTHING DO TO WITH US. It isn't a deal we are making. It is a market transaction between two foreign companies.
The only thing WE HAVE to do is to decide if the security issues invoked by the deal are significant enough for us to legally oppose the purchase, probably by legally voiding the leases.
The Administration looked at this precise issue, and found no legal basis for opposing the deal.
Bush didn't set out to sell the ports to the UAE. He was dealt the hand, and is just doing what the law allows him to do.
Funny, if he simply nixed the deal, the democrats would be saying he ignored the law again and acted like a dictator.
So it doesn't enhance our security. There is simply no evidence that it makes us less secure.
I only regular call in show is Religion On The Line, WABC radio. The rabbi and priest are pistols.
well, hang around big fella...
Here's a commentary posted somewhere else that has a lot of good info about the DP World company everybody is so afraid of:
Here's an editorial I wrote on the matter just today.
I’m not sure how much more bad reporting I can take. First, we had much ado about nothing in the Cheney hunting accident. This week the world is falling apart because of what name appears on the paychecks at some ports on the East coast.
How about a few facts before we all lose our minds.
Dubai Ports World (DP World) has made a $6.8 billion bid to buy out P&O, a British company that operates ports along the East coast. The other company trying to acquire this was PSA International from Singapore. (Singapore is an island nation in Southeast Asia. Founded as a British trading colony, it is predominantly ethnically Chinese.)
There are three companies that operate large ports like those in the news, DP World, PSA International and Maersk, a Danish company.
There are NO American companies that operate ports on this scale.
All of America’s ports are currently operated by foreign countries.
DP World’s management team has the following members: COO, Mr. Edward Bilkey and US Navy man and graduate of Yale and Harvard; General Counsel, Mr. George Dalton, a graduate of Fordham; Senior VP Operations, Mr. Joost Kruijning, a native of the Netherlands; Mr. Matt Leech, graduate of Georgetown; Senior VP Commercial, Mr. Michael Moore, a man who started in trucking in the US; CFO, Mr. Vijay Sharma, a native of India. Hardly a lineup of radical Islamo-fascists looking for a way to bring America to her knees.
Dubai is an ally. They have allowed us to place our Coast Guard at their ports in the United Arab Emirates so that we could monitor security of ships before they even headed for our shores.
If this sale goes through, there will be virtually no changes whatsoever at these ports.
The ports themselves will continue to be owned by the state in which they are located. For example, the port of Baltimore will still belong to the state of Maryland.
By law, security as to what ships are permitted to dock and offload their cargo will continue to be run by the US Coast Guard.
The men and women who will offload the cargo will be the same Americans that are unloading the ships now. By law, every person working at these ports must have a thorough federal background check.
WSBT’s Question of the day for February 21 was, “Do you think a foreign country should control major American ports?” They already are. The stink that is being raised now isn’t about foreign control; it is about the company being Arab.
The Bush administration has thoroughly vetted this deal. The only reason to oppose it is because they happen to be Arab. The president and his team had to know that this sale would be a political nightmare. I am sure they all looked at this and thought there has to be a good reason to kill this deal. But there wasn’t. This is just one multi-national company selling their operations to another. It just so happens, the other is headquarted in an Arab nation.
Funny thing is, the people complaining the loudest are liberals like Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). The same people who won’t let us profile Middle Eastern males 18-30 like those that hijacked the planes on 9-11, seem to be fine with rejecting an entire country just because they are Arab. There are a good many Republicans being just as stupid about this. And yes, I’ve heard some people talking about this being like Gov. Daniels Toll Road lease proposal. But to what end? Dubai is one of the most westernized places in all of the Middle East. For the most part, they like us. It doesn’t make any sense to insult them and say no, your money isn’t good enough. Why make an enemy?
If the good people of Dubai are doing business with us, making money with us, then it is in their interest not to harm us. Besides that, the UAE is a country about the size of Maine. They have about 3.5 million people. They spend about 1.6 billion a year on their military. They have to know, that if they are found complicit in any way with an attack on America through these ports, we will come down on them like a lightning. We could literally wipe their country off the face of the earth in 20 minutes. Ten, if we don’t stop by Starbucks for coffee.
So calm down. Look at the facts. Everything is going to be just fine.
Ed Weaver
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Perry Como?
It's 7 o'clock.............somewhere.....not at WMAL!
UPDATED LIST 02-21-05 5:55 p.m. CDT
A running updated list of those for and those against UAE running US ports?
AGAINST
New York Gov. George Pataki (R)
Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich (R)
Baltimore Mayor, Martin J. O'Malley (D)
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell
Sean Hannity
Mark Levin
Michael Savage
Senator Chuck Schumer (D)
Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist
Michelle Malkin
Debbie Schlussel
Rep. Peter King (R)
Rep. Curt Weldon (R)
Senator Tom Coburn (R)
Senator Hillary Clinton (D)
Frank Gaffney, Jr
FOR
President George W. Bush (R)
Former President Jimmy Carter (D)
Tony Snow
Rush Limbaugh
AJ Strata
Blogs for Bush
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
Sea2Sea
I got through to Rush once, long time ago. Rush also had his TV Show then--that's how long ago it was.
Hey Fudd,
If I'm not mistaken, Chuckie Schumer has created this with the help of the media.
Why was there no screaming when this was first approved?
Mark, your question about improving the port security is not fair.
How would any port management firm improve on the security? What do you suggest? There are no American firms in the running. Look how many British nationals were involved in the bombings in London. It's gonna be real hard for them to get papers to the US?
Federalizing the ports? That has worked so well for other stuff. (I hate I disagree with you on this, first time since I started listening.)
Jeb Bush is for it.
Erlich no longer says he is opposed, he now says we should simply delay it while we get more information....
He remembered me! Thanks, sofaman. I don't feel like an orphan anymore!
| UAE Would Also Control Shipments of Military Equipment For The U.S. Army |
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| Posted by bikepacker67 On Bloggers & Personal 02/21/2006 5:38:24 PM CST · 21 replies · 321+ views thinkprogress.org ^ There is bipartisan concern about the Bush administration’s decision to outsource the operation of six of the nation’s largest ports to a company controlled by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) because of that nation’s troubling ties to international terrorism. The sale of P&O to Dubai World Ports would give the state-owned company control of “the ports of New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia.” A major part of the story, however, has been mostly overlooked. The company, Dubai Ports World, would also control the movement of military equipment on behalf of the U.S. Army through two other... |
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I just got here. Been a crazy day. We're talking about the port thing, I guess?
Alberto Gonzalez is for it, but I think we probably could count all the administration officials on the "for" side -- like Chertoff, Mineta both are for it.
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