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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Discipline would require one to have his/her facts straight before pulling out the cane (sword, guillotine, whatever).
The President assumed that the American people generally behave like rational adults. That was his mistake.
Win the hearts and minds of the middle east? You are joking right? This is a financial payoff so that muslims can invest in their own major investment vehicle. This will not have anything to do winning their hearts. This is business and the potiential for corruption that would make up vunerable is almost unfathomable. For you to not see that or more likely admit it.... shows that you are willing to ignore stupid ideas just like the democrats did with Clinton.
"Hot" is right, based on what I saw him say yesterday.
I heard from the MSM they switched from Hunt's catsup to Heinz and Bush didn't know.
Ah, so since 9-11 involved planes, let's drop all our other security and just focus on airports. Brilliant!
So they essentially told you to get lost, huh? Bummer.
Ding! Ding! Ding! No more calls, folks, we have a winner!
I just saying that in response to the general tenure of the reaction here. Politically this is a hot issue and the President should have been informed I agree. I just want cooler heads to prevail a little out there in the media, the blogs, and our leaders.
Flamethrower? Naw. I can throw flames with the best of them. I'm just having a grand time just getting into one of these threads early so I can mock the "cartoon protesting" masses of FR. :-D
Wow have you always been prone to hysteria or is it recent? And do you always believe the Party of Treason/Treason Media?
Rush makes a decent argument on a thread I saw earlier today. Something about winning friends in reference to the Cold War and how to "win" it.
Foggy Bottom = Chinese Fire Drill.., Three Stooges go to Washington D.C., Keystone Cops entertain while the Mexican Border WALL is ignored because the Port Authority is more important.. Silly news lures the eye away from the important STUFF..
Here's where I believe the President is coming from:
It is impossible to tell one of our closest Arab allies in the War on Terror that their companies are excluded from this contact ... without surrendering in principle the notion that our fight is against terrorism, not against Islam or the entire Arab world.
Well at least you are making some sense now. It would explain your logic if your mind is numb. You are using the classic " call the opposition "alarmist" if you can't refute the arguement" technique. It would be funny if it were not so pathetic if it hadn't been coming from our own side.
Rational adults don't threaten to use their first veto on a sensitive matter, especially when it turns out they are not fully up to speed on the subject.
Ooooohh, good answer! You're a keeper! ;-)
(BTW, MineralMan, although we disagree on this issue, you are not one I include in the hysterical masses.)
This is the factoid that keeps this argument in balance.
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