[saveliberty]

Good morning, fellow Snowflakes! Happy Friday! Here's your last Tony Snow article ping from me. :-(

[CWOJackson]

It won't be long before Tony is accused of drinking the koolaide...along with General Tommy Franks and Colonel Ollie North.

[Oklahoma]

Tony has said it best with the least amount of verbiage.

[ajolympian2004]

Hello,

One suggestion when posting Tony Snow columns... please add 'editorial' to the topics you select. That way more folks will get the opportunity to read his excellent writing.

I already added editorial for this thread that you just posted.

thanks,

Tony in Boulder

[CWOJackson]

Just in case you didn't see it.

[Morgan in Denver]

Thanks for the catch. Bill Bennett opposes the leasing and has some interesting arguments. I'm still with Tony, but I'm enjoying the discussion. One thing all this proves is that Republicans are not walking in lock step behind President Bush, just as we didn't with Ms. Miers nomination.

[tiredoflaundry]

Snowman *BUMP*

[snowsislander]

The ownership change wouldn't have affected anybody on American soil.

What interests me is the argument that "it just doesn't matter what nation is an operator in our ports." I would assume that the extension of that argument then would be that it is just jim-dandy if North Korea, Iran, Syria, Hamas, and Hezbollah suddenly started buying their way into our ports also?

[Right_in_Virginia]

The ownership change wouldn't have affected anybody on American soil. DPW had agreed to keep the old British management team (comprised of Americans) in charge and would have retained the all-American force of longshoremen at the terminals.

Repeat often.

[Dane]

Wow, a great article, but of course to the self called "true conservatives", Tony Snow along with Tommy Franks is now a traitor.

[Unkosified]

You know what ticks me off about this whole thing? It's the way they jumped all over so QUICKLY while letting other important matter drag on for years.

Why can't they tackle the border issue with this much gusto? They always say that these things take time. I call Bullshite. They can get things done quickly when THEY want to.

I'm going to email a bunch of them today and point that out. I'm going to tell them that by not getting our borders secured they're putting all of our lives in danger and that it's disingenuous of them to jump all over the port issue while any ole terrorist and come strolling across from Mexico or Canada because after all this time, they're STILL wide open.

I wish everyone would write to their senators today and tell them to stop putting our lives in danger because of politics AND tell them if they are not up to the job of getting this border thing taken care of a.s.s.p., we'll be looking to elect people who CAN.

[Soul Seeker]

The UAE since has put troops on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq, in active and humanitarian missions. It trains Iraqi forces on its soil. It lets the United States conduct flights through its airspace. It has housed servicemen -- and women -- from the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force. It maintains the largest U.S. naval facility outside the United States, and Dubai Ports World performs contract service at the port.

It was the first government in the region to comply with the "container security" program launched by the Bush administration, testing every container for nuclear contamination. It now is working to develop technology that would permit the swift and thorough scanning of all containers. Its central bank has become quite active in choking off terror financing. It has rounded up a fair number of al-Qaida operatives and handed them over to the United States, and once -- long ago -- offered to serve as the agent for delivering Osama bin Laden from the Sudan to the Clinton administration.

Imagine all this. But then, we have no allies in the Middle East in the WOT. Bomb Mecca right now. [sarcasm]

[A Citizen Reporter]

"Washington was wracked last week by a spasm of Know-Nothingism, starring Democratic and Republican members of Congress whose hysterics confirmed the Founders' view that the president, and not the legislature, ought to handle matters of national security."

I like it!

[Dilbert56]

Oh, the hu-manifolds!

[maryz]

politicians acted as if the Bush administration, which gave its blessing to the deal, had just exposed America's tender commercial neck to the glinting scimitars of Araby.

It struck me this morning that Jimmy Carter probably came out in favor precisely because he thought we had sold the ports themselves -- would make his Panama Canal thing look like the wave of the future!

[soccermom]

Thanks for posting this! It is nice to know that there are still people out there who don't get whipped into a frenzy of demagoguery.