Posted on 02/23/2006 12:30:50 PM PST by ARCADIA
NEW YORK -- The Port Authority said Thursday it will file suit to block a Dubai-based firm from taking over operations at a Port Newark container terminal, saying the federal government has not given them assurances about security issues.
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Terrorism is not exclusive to the Middle East.
Man, this Timothy McVeigh argument has come out a lot in the past couple days. Prior to this week, you only heard left-wing nutjobs using it. The point of this argument----that being from the middle east does not make one more likely to be a terrorist----is ridiculous on its face. How many homegrown, all-American terrorists can you think of? Let me help you out: McVeigh...the Unabomber...that Eric Rudolph guy...wow, now that you mention it, I guess that is just as many terrorists as the Middle East has produced!!
I can't believe so many supposed conservatives have been reduced to using the "USA is a terrorist breeding ground because of McVeigh" argument.
The so called security personnel at the airports is quite interesting. Aside from most barely speaking english, many wear turbans, are hostile, ignorant, and some have been arrested for stealing from checked luggage. Some have allowed 'friends' to enter the area where the planes are parked. Some have entered planes without proper authorization.
I hear people claiming that they will just do operations, not security.
But under what division of the corporate structure does security fall?
Sales and Marketing?
Finance and accounting?
No.
Operations.
Hear, hear!!
I feel that if this goes through it will be a total omen. Add this to big picture and you have the possible destruction of America. We are living on borrowed time.
Exactly, if anything we should be more concerned about it since there have been several Islamic terrorist attacks after 9/11, including in Britain and Spain.
And some terrorists have come from England...none of which changes the fact that the nations professionals in this issue are comfortable with the sale.
Good?
The time for blocking this sale has passed.
So by your reasoning, it's alright to kill over 200 US marines, as long as it's done on foreign soil in a sneak attack?
The same rush we had to have on the bankruptcy deform bill and the Mediscare drug welfare program.
Thnx for alerting me to that sentence...I hit abuse and now await the result...
Actually it's fairly truthful.
Are you a fan of CAIR? The Prince of Dubai owns their HQ in DC where they hold fundraisers for the families of suicide bombers.
It turns out that an anti-Israeli foundation run by the crown prince of Dubai owns the very deed to CAIR's headquarters located almost in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol. The foundation has held telethons to support families of Palestinian suicide bombers.
There have been plenty of articles here on FR that have listed Dubais ties to 9/11. And there's always this:
"Two weeks after 9/11, the UAE crown prince warned Washington not to strike “innocent” Muslims in Afghanistan, but instead focus on “Israeli terrorism.”
No, it's not on target, it's absolutely false. UAE realized that after severing ties with the Taliban in September 2001, forging pathways with countries like Israel and the United States will open up doors of investment and business opportunities. It's how democracy and freedom is allowed to flourish, and ways in which to liberate nations without firing a single shot.
And in this country, unlike in the KINGDOM of UAE, the nations professionals work for the people. They people are speaking.
BINGO
I consider the Democrats a bigger threat to this nation. They're already here. Given the chance to achieve the scepter of power, they'll drop the ball on national security just like their hero Bubba dropped his pants in the Oval Office.
Good...they removed the "should be shot" post.
It might surprise you to know that the U.S. military works for you and the Constitution.
All of the assurances of a UAE governmental change of heart and promises of future fildelity to the safety of U.S. infrastructure sound much like a car salesman's pitch. Perhaps the reality that underlies the low-level committee decision in Washington is to be found in the bottom line economics and free trade agreements uncovered since the breaking of this story. The comment by the Secretary of Homeland Defense that the ''demands of national security must be balanced against the [bottom line],'' is not only absurd and indefensable, it illustrates where this administration's priorities can be found.
Query: What would have been the public response if, in 1943, a cabinet secretary had said something of a similar nature?'' Or, even if the same scenario had arisen in November of 2001? What would have been the GOP's response if President Clinton or one of his key personnel had said such a thing pre-Sept. 11,2001? The answer is axiomatic.
The guys with stars on their shoulders today are the ones who survived the purge of high ranking officers who told the truth to power and were fired, retired or sent to the Beetle Bailey outpost commanded by General Halftrack never to be heard from again. Thus, the talking heads at the Pentagon today would say the moon was made of green cheese if that were the line that the White House wanted to tout. Not a single one of them would utter a peep about the wrong headedness of this decision, thus having them as guests on administration talk shows (we all know who they are)only prove this thesis. I'll bet a month's gross pay that if one were to ask the same intentional softball questions of a ''real'' intelligence or operations type from the interpretive or planning levels, and the interview subject officer didn't care that his future would be in ruins the instant he gave a truthful answer, the response would be totally different from that of those ''perfumed princes'' at the feet of the secretary of defense.
Recall the Secretary of State's comment that the measures at work now, irrespective of their apparent nonsensical nature, were necessary to assure that the next visual image was not a mushroom cloud over a major city. Now, given the nature of Middle East politics, the cunning and intrigue of the terrorists, the UAE's allegiance to the doctrine of Israel's destruction and the past assistance of the UAE to North Korea, the bad guys, Iran and the plotters of Sept.11th, how can that cautionary statement of Sec. Rice and the Bush White House be squared with the current economic decision? The answer is: it cannot.
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