Posted on 02/22/2006 8:31:23 AM PST by Kaslin
WASHINGTON — President Bush was unaware that a controversial deal to sell shipping operations at six major U.S. seaportsto a United Arab Emirates-owned firm was in the works until it was approved by his administration, the White House said Wednesday.
After Bush repeatedly
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...Freepers will share in the blame. But will never admit it.
I kinda wondered about this. How many folks in the executive branch are a bunch of Carter/Clinton/Nixon holdouts that simply our enemy.
"I heard from the MSM they switched from Equal to Splenda in the WH cafeteria and Bush didn't know!"
So in your mind, the President should have been left out of the loop on this?
Right, anyone that disagrees with you is a nervous nellie.It is you that are not addressing my arguements over bribery and security conserns and the ignoring of your political base. Address those with solid evidence that there would not be any security issues regarding this deal.
posting this story "Growing criticism puzzles many in shipping industry"
Shows that you have no idea how washington works. Lobbyists pay ( and washington is FLUSH with Arab lobbyist money) to have stories like this put into the press. If you don't know that you are the one that can't handle the gravity of the situation.
...whines the fella who launched the first salvo... without even the decency to ping me to it. Shall I grab you a tissue?
Going to?
Wrong. Sorry you're struggling to keep up.
Was there any political appointee involved, or was this all done by unelected bureaucrats?
I have to disagree with you there. There are more than just two steps involved. Dubai Ports is not a shoestring, fly-by-night operation.
Throw in the fact that the deal is contingent upon not having the second, more rigorous 45-day review and this just doesn't come across right without a far better review and a better defense from the Bush Admin other than the first use of the veto pen.
I agree that a more involved review would have been more politic, and I think that the President threatened a veto because he saw that this is just Democrats trying to gin up a long-burning controversy for their advantage.
Does Bush not see what impact his veto threat has on keeping the intensity of debate on a rational level?
You said:
We don't have rioters here (in the UAE).
My question is this? Why not? Why are the radical Islamists NOT giving grief to the UAE? They are killing and rioting in all countries which support freedom and liberty. Why not your country?
I rest my point that our good relationship with the UAE cannot be guaranteed in the long run.
I might not have first-hand experience of living in the UAE like you do, but I have the common sense to know that 9-11 is a warning that the United States has enemies.
Only time will tell where the UAE will stand -- either for the U.S. or against the U.S.
And I don't think that while this question is up in the air, we should allow a company controlled by the UAE to operate our ports.
Your weak answer tells me you didn't access the other thread. But I do realize the thread title is a bit, um, intimidating for some.
Ah, yes. You know all about the inner working of D.C. from your California observation post! ROTFL. Our mutual friend may be somewhat well connected, but he ain't mind-melded to you.
More politic? It was required by a 1994 amendment to the law in question. And it should not be politic - it should be in the interests of ensuring national security. That's the entire problem - you and the Bush Admin supporters on this subject are seeing this as politics when it is far past that now.
and I think that the President threatened a veto because he saw that this is just Democrats trying to gin up a long-burning controversy for their advantage.
The opposition is strongly bipartisan - including the GOP leaders of both the House and the Senate. So much for that theory.
More details on why there was no 45-day review of the deal...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1583485/posts?page=1
Last week, it emerged that both Dubai Ports World and Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., the seller, specified that an agreement by the U.S. government not to make a formal investigation as a condition for the deal.
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I heard from the MSM they switched from Hunt's catsup to Heinz and Bush didn't know.<<
Ha ha! That is very witty. The sale of ports to Muslim countries in a time of war is as insignificant as which catsup the President eats. Ha! That is toweringly clever.
Everyone who is concerned about the President's ignorance on this potential national security issue is so stupid, aren't they?
At least there are a few of you smart people still around.
When was it ever at that level? Did I sneeze and miss it?
Amen to that.
No it was not.
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