Posted on 02/22/2006 9:00:17 PM PST by Kaslin
Politicians across the political spectrum are raising their voices against the arrangement which would allow a United Arab Emirates company to manage six U.S. seaports, and on Tuesday's Situation Room, CNN's Jack Cafferty acted as a rabble-rousing activist as he encouraged his viewers to rise up against any politician who doesn't act to block the deal and he highlighted two viewer e-mails which advocated the impeachment of President Bush over the matter. Cafferty excoriated: "If our elected representatives don't do everything in their power to stop this thing, each of us should vow to work tirelessly to see that they are removed from public office....Here's the question. What should be done to stop a deal that would allow an Arab company with ties to terrorism to run U.S. ports?" Cafferty soon read from one e-mailer who argued that "this deal is nothing short of collusion with a foreign power of unknown intent during wartime. The President should be impeached." And another: "Putting George Bush in charge of our country was a huge mistake, and my fellow citizens finally realize that it was a disaster. Time to impeach this President."
The MRC's Megan McCormack caught the "Cafferty File" about 16 minutes into the 4pm EST hour of the February 21 Situation Room: "Wolf, this may be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back, this deal to sell control of six U.S. ports to a company controlled by the United Arab Emirates. There are now actually Senators and Congressmen and Governors and Mayors telling the White House you're not going to do this, and it's about time. No one has said no to this administration on anything that matters in a very long time. Well, this matters, matters a lot. If this deal is allowed to go through, we deserve whatever we get. A country with ties to terrorists will have a presence at six critical doorways to our country. And if anyone thinks the terrorists in time won't figure out how to exploit that, than we're all done. Nothing's happened yet, mind you, but if our elected representatives don't do everything in their power to stop this thing, each of us should vow to work tirelessly to see that they are removed from public office. We're at a crossroads. Which way will we choose? Here's the question. What should be done to stop a deal that would allow an Arab company with ties to terrorism to run U.S. ports? E-mail us at CaffertyFile@CNN.com or go to CNN.com/CaffertyFile."
At 4:58pm EST Cafferty returned with the feedback he got as he read some selected viewer e-mails with the text displayed on screen: "The question, Wolf, is what should be done to stop a deal that would allow an Arab company to operate six U.S. ports. We are getting tons of e-mail. Alan in Silver Springs, Maryland, 'The U.S. Congress must stand tall and united against the administration's plan. They must force the President to withdraw the government's approval.' Em in Barrington, Illinois, 'This deal is nothing short of collusion with a foreign power of unknown intent during wartime. The President should be impeached.' Mike writes, 'This administration has been going in the wrong direction. They've now turned a trot into a mad dash toward oblivion. This C grade President and his cronies are threatening our existence. This port deal must be stopped.' J.R., or excuse me, J.B., Raleigh, North Carolina, 'Jack, give someone enough rope, he'll hang himself. The arrogance of the Bush administration has finally caught up with it, and we're united at last. Putting George Bush in charge of our country was a huge mistake, and my fellow citizens finally realize that it was a disaster. Time to impeach this President.' Eric in Medina, Ohio, 'Congress must act to bar turning port security and operations over to foreign governments or foreign companies. Not merely Arab governments and companies, any foreign authority. American ports must be under the control of our citizens.' And David writes from Hawaii, 'The last time we had a government that was non-responsive to the wishes of the people they governed, we had a revolution.' Wolf?"
This matter has been propagandized no less that the Abu Graib photos were, and those who are lining up behind Schumer and Boxer are been strummed like a cheap guitar
You're asked for proof of a claim and you link a 177 page report?
Facts......facts............LEARN SOME!
Thank you.
First of all the President can stop any deal of this nature by Executive order.
Secondly, we are in a WAR with people that this company has supported and continues to support.
Thirdly I have read up on it and the more I read, the less I like. Maybe turning over administrative control of our ports to a Terrorist Supporting Company/Government doesn't bother you, but it bothers the hell out of me.
don't like that?
Too bad
Do a search for "uae" in the document. You'll find it very quickly.
Please, just read the links I provided and others have in this thread. It's clear there were terrorist connections.
I remember the UK government busted some terrorist cells outside London in the last year. Those terrorists are being held in prisons run by Tony Blair. Tony Blair has ties to terrorists!
End all economic and government ties to the United Kingdom immediately! They have ties to terrorism!
It was pleasant debating this *most* of you. Good night.
LOL, too late for that slick
Poor wittle baby....if you can't stand the fire, get out of the kitchen....many American's are DUMBER than stumps!
Based on the law congress passed in 1988 Bush couldn't have reversed the deal after it was approved by this committee. The law states that after the deal was approved by the committee bush or the committee can only go back and review the deal if the company lied to them on the application.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1583784/posts
Great Post, I share your experience over this issue
How many accounts have you had banned now, Stuart? When will you learn that retread trolls are zot on sight?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1500167/posts
I didn't need a report to tell me about it; I remember it specificially; and it was NOT "shortly" before 9/11.
Hell, why stop there? End all ties to US!
You have no idea what FR is really like. You have no knowledge of its history. You are assuming something based on your perspective, which isn't all that good.
You've made some pretty boradbrush statements; none of which can you substantiate and which are wrong.
Karl Rove depends on knee-jerkiness to excercies his mind control.
I will try to recap, but please help me if I miss something:
Can someone take it from there? Keeping track of the mudslinging machine is hard work. Of course the correlary tinfoil machine (which is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Diebold, which is secretly owned by Halliburton, which is semi-secretly owned by Dick Cheney) is manipulated by Rove on a daily basis.
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