Posted on 02/22/2006 1:18:57 AM PST by bd476
Please, don't confuse me with the facts!
BIGOT!!!!
My problem is not the UAE. I simply believe all US ports and airports should only be run by American companies. Plus it is a state owned company, and those should be blocked from the US, to fight socialism. No state owned company should be allowed any operations in the US at all. All ports, not just these should revert to American control. We are so worried about the UAE, an ally controlling ports, when we are not protesting Chinese control, which is far more dangerous
I apent 7 months in Qatar from August 2003 to April 2004 and never felt threatened once. Got combat pay and the tax deferment for seven months of regular garrison duty (been to Iraq twice as well, so I don't feel guilty).
I was refering to his comment that he would veto an act of Congress that would prevent this. That's an very proactive response.
"At what point in time do you believe President Bush lost his intelligence or his ability to reason?"
I don't. You're presuming that once a person reaches a certain level of intelligence he becomes incapable of making mistakes unless his intelligence regresses. He is simply making a mistake, as we are all capable of no matter how smart we are.
Ping
The employees are, and will be, US persons.
The FBI agents who raised red flags about Middle Easterners in Florida flight schools were called paranoid, too.
Passing through. Big air travel hub.
How do you know this? They are not going to send people from UAE?
Can you confirm this?
A guy who sounded very knowledgeable also called in and said that, once a ship reaches the boundary of International/US waters, the captain gives up control of the ship to the Coast Guard and the ship is inspected, then taken in for unloading, then, once it gets back to International Waters, it is turned back over to the captain. That kind of puts things in a different light, doesn't it? (although I'm still a bit concerned about the possibility that an infiltrator could probe our security protocols, etc.)
I believe the administration intervened to persuade China('s state-owned gas co.) to withdraw their bid for Unocal last year...
I simply believe all US ports and airports should only be run by American companies
Ports haven't been run by US companies in years. And I believe it was the clinton administration who started this by selling to Britain in the first place.
bd476 posted:"IN DEFENSE OF DUBAI, CBS News Dick Myers, posted on Free Republic 2/22/06 by bd476 excerpt "The United Arab Emirates is not an Axis of Evil kind of place, it will not own U.S. ports,***"" it will not control security at U.S. ports***"" and there is nothing new about foreigners owning U.S. ports. Odds are higher that you'll be wounded interfering with a congressman providing soundbites than by something smuggled into a port terminal leased by Dubai Ports World."
***""it will not control security at U.S. ports""***
"But please: let's not let the facts get in the way of a good story. And what's wrong with a little Arab-bashing anyway? "
Cannoneer NO.4 wrote".........Who told you you had to believe that? There is no requirement at *most* ports that the security officers or anybody else be American citizens..........."
At this time a HOPE and a PRAYER! and a Smith and Wesson under my pillow. What happened to that Boy Scout quote: "BE PREPARED" Already having problems with all the murders, blood shed going on because of this nonsensical Terrorist war. Had hoped we were more civilized, now guess I must give up on that expectation in my life time. Bush' hair has turned white since he has been in office. Should we offer to rebuild the Shrine to make the Shites and the Sunnis happy so they will not massacre one another?? Seems like noone is interested in peace and they will just have to fight it out. It hurts to see so many young people losing their lives in this mess on all the countries.
Hope is not a plan.
Karl Rove told me in an aside. Really.
The whole port thing just smells bad to me. I don't care what the President says, it still smells bad.
Couple of questions:
I don't believe anyone with half a brain would say that our ports are secure NOW. And we're going to do WHAT?????
GIVE ME A BREAK!
The biggest question in my mind is why are we considering even allowing this deal in the first place? I've visited ports and there are absolutely tens of thousands of containers all over the place. This is crazy. No one has adequate control now and we're going to make these ports even less secure by allowing a Muslim country to oversee them.
We have wide open borders and no one in power cares. Now we're placing the business and administration of the our key ports in the hands of a state run company that has ties to the most violent people on the face of the earth, a people dedicated to our destruction or subjugation.
I'm watching the gradual destruction of the greatest nation in history, a destruction that will eventually come at its own hand because of political correctness and stupidity.
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