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Posted on 02/21/2006 6:35:23 PM PST by jdm
President Bush called reporters at about 2.30 ET aboard Air Force One to issue a very strong defense of port deal... MORE... He said he would veto any legislation to hold up deal and warned the United States was sending 'mixed signals' by going after a company from the Middle East when nothing was said when a British company was in charge... Lawmakers, he said, must 'step up and explain why a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard.' Bush was very forceful when he delivered the statement... 'I don't view it as a political fight,' Bush said.... DEVELOPING...
....Well Mr. President it might be because the British company was just that, A COMPANY NOT A GOVERNMENT.
Also, I haven't heard one Brit spout DEATH TO AMERICA, BEHEAD ONE AMERICAN, NOR FLY ANY PLANES INTO A BUILDING.
....your ""religion of peace"" is getting old!
As for me, I believe heathy skepticism and prejudice will protect this country better than blind magnanaminity.
Think about it, though. When Hillary and Schummer and the others on the left say this will not stand, it is the same as screaming, "I am prejudice against Arab muslims." And 'prejudice" is almost the 'p' word, as bad as the 'n' word, in the minds of leftist.
re ... your post 22
the old media will never go along, even if the old media wanted to halt President Bush in his tracks, the old media would never do this......too easy..
The GOP owns the "tough on terrorism" issue. Lose that and we're cooked in 2008, (and maybe 2006 too.) I can't believe Rove approved this thing.
We're not far from the day when non-Arab suicide bombers will be the rule, not the exception. Many will be from countries we count as our strongest allies. Some will be from America. When American terrorists start setting off VBIEDs and donning suicide vests, will you want to cut off U.S. firms from dockside management contracts?
"The Arabs" are not a team. Trying to treat them as one is a simple way to miss the point entirely.
Secular government. The government in UAE is SECULAR, not Islamic.
Don't be ridiculous. This isn't the President's doing, it's the job of all those little bureaucracies on the way UP TO the President.
'Sides, wouldn't you like to hear the Libs squirm & explain exactly why Muslims/Arabs/other nations have become the "enemy" today when yesterday the ACLU was coming after the conservatives for profiling the very same group of people. The President is following the Lib's own rules down to the letter. Who's racist now? LOL
I wouldn't trust congress to investigate anything beyond the natural flow of ketchup or the meaning of the 'at the end of the day'....
Those fools grandstand more for the next election than they do for our economy or our security......
Time for term limits!
Interesting. I've spent a lot of time in China and Dubai. Their internet restrictions are no where near similar and I happily post to FreeRepublic in both countries. We want the Middle East to be a stable region with a solid economy based on competitive trade and free markets. Exactly what the UAE is accomplishing.
Why didn't our government prepare an agreement for the U.K. to take the TERRORIST? BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT THEM!
Is that lost on you?
"Because this does not pass the sniff test...Mr. President."
If the GOP loses this issue it will be because it deserved to...this deal might be legal and might make financial sense (whatever that means) but it's just such bad form...maybe President Bush should be asked how he'd feel if the Mexican government took over our Border Patrol.
There's no way those words could have been asked by the president.
If he's working on the stun factor he's got this down.
Why don't you respond to the last comment in that post? Do you agree or disagree with it? I'll repeat it here....I think we should ban trade with every single country that offers safe harbor to terrorist organizations like CAIR. We should absolutely refuse to cooperate with any government that allows known anti-Israeli groups like CAIR to operate freely within its borders.
The Middle Eastern countries -- like many of our trading partners -- generate large trade surpluses with the U.S. due to their oil wealth. The U.S. buys oil from the Middle East, and pays them dollars in exchange. These people can't eat dollars, so the U.S. currency doesn't do them any good except insofar as they can use these dollars to buy other things. So they purchase U.S. Treasury bills, U.S. real estate, race horses, expensive cars, and other such things. One thing they also like to do is acquire reputable global corporations like P&O Ports in those lines of business that these countries value highly (global shipping, in the case of the UAE -- for some fascinating reasons that I could describe in detail if anyone wants to get my take on it).
If these countries start running up against bureaucratic opposition in the U.S. to these financial deals, they have a huge disincentive to sell their oil for U.S. dollars. With the euro now competing with the U.S. dollar as the preferred currency for international trade, the last thing the U.S. wants to do is provide them with any kind of incentive to start pricing their commodities (primarily oil, in the case of the Middle East) in something other than dollars.
And it seems as if Rush is on board with this escapade too. I confess I only heard a little bit while I was working -- in and out -- so I could be wrong.
But was he saying, "Well there ARE no American companies to do this this we may as well let Arab companies take charge"?
Love Rush. Most Important Conservative in America! In the World! But sometimes these days, he's to worried about getting invited to golf tournaments and hob-nobbing with bigwigs.
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