Posted on 02/23/2006 6:13:09 PM PST by new yorker 77
DPW is operating in Ports all over the world and they are into making money not Jihad. My Brother has been to Dubai at least 20 times as well as every other Country in the Middle East except for Iran and Syria and he says Dubai is like visiting a 5 star resort.
Sure there is a risk that somebody could infiltrate DPW and do us harm, but that is the case with any international company doing business here
Ok, then they have to kick Singapore out of California
Malkin has been on my dog list ever since she tried to play Miss-Goody-two-shoes over Laura Bush's hilarious remarks to the National Press Club.
For a woman who has to put up with being called a "gook" in her emails, she certainly exhibits a mean xenophobic streak herself.
Maybe it's all just an evil plot by the President and his buddy Hal Burton...and Walmart.
It seems like there is always SOMETHING that President Bush has to fight..and although I get tired of seeing posts complaining about how he shoulda done this, or should done that...
I just PRAY that maybe Karen Hughes will stop whatever she is doing...and start heading off problems...
I think that when this was reported on in November, and no Congresscritters raised a fuss...or any of the public did either, the White House just assumed that when it was finalized they didn't need to say anything beforehand...
I wonder if Soros, who is a big money player in the world, is the one that called the dems and told them to make a big stink about this last week??
Thats a BS argument, if they wanted intel or observations all they would have to do is infiltrate the Longshoreman Union. Personally I HOPE those people are screened by the FBI.
Exactly, I used to visit her Blog, and read her stuff, That stopped for me as well, when she jumped all over Laura Bush for injecting comedy at an event where people took the podium to make comical remarks
No us companies performing what functions?
Thanks and Ping for later perusal
The commercial port operations that DP World is buying.
Nice try. Why don't you just admit you overreacted?
Nothing, NOTHING, about this deal will change. So, after dumb-asses have been trotted through the details like school-children, there will still be no debate, because Congress is going to let this deal go through with egg on their faces.
How is it that congress is so uninformed about how our ports work? Is it the president's job to teach the house and senate how things have worked for years?
Why would Freepers, who are supposed to be some of the most informed people in this country so quick to run off the cliff after people like Clinton and Shummer?
I think he gets it but he is saving face. I roll my eyes every time he starts talking about how the UAE won't support Israel. For crying out loud that would be suicide for the UAE! It's like saying to them, "If you are really, really, truly our friends you will cut your own legs off." Sean has a great heart and I think he's a great American but sometimes he is kind of vacuous. However at Other times he really shines.
And lashing out at the administration for being the cause of their kneejerk reactions. I'll respect these folks when they stop scapegoating the President for not doing their homework first.
I've admitted I was less than favorable to this at the start, but I held my tongue. I held my tongue because I knew nothing about ports. I've waited for facts to emerge. If arguments for both sides were placed on a weighting scale today, the balance favors the administration's position. That is why their positions are shifting.
Now should someone have known on a basic level Saudi Arabia plus U.S. ports just on the surface as a soundbite would be bad? Yeah, absolutely. But for these folks to DARE to castigate the administration as being equitable in their own failings, please. One was a lack of foresight. Another was sloppiness, laziness, and being a slave to prejudices and fear rather than researching facts.
From where I stand unless your name is Rush Limbaugh, Tony Snow? , Mark Steyn?, and even someone I hate giving credit to---John McCain--as well of a handful of others you haven't any room to shift blame to the administration. Time to be grounups again and admit they screwed up and leave it at that.
That s because its never been a issue before. Check NSCSA.com. The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia has brought port terminals for years and nobody has said a word. They still aren't saying anything. The fact is this is a common practice and hardly ever noticed except in the Wall Street Journal. This became a issue because a democrat running for Mayor in Baltimore misrepresented the fact and everyone jumped on the band wagon. The Saudis started buying terminals as early as 1979 but there are some Arab companies that purchased terminals earlier than that.
oh, I thought you were saying that we didn't have a shipping company. I know they bought American CSX's operations 2 years ago but im sure we still have some US companies that do this type of business
I stand corrected then. Which Muslim country would you like to invite to your neck of the woods to run some things? Maybe you can get the Palestinians to handle bus security there.
Thanks for the additional info...I appreciate it..
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