Handing U.S. port security to UAE is terrible idea

The Columbus Dispatch ^ | 2/22/2006 | Cal Thomas

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Where did I say Congress had approved it; it's the committee Congress set up to do these kinds of investigations. It is set up to be bipartisan and out of the reach of politics.

Again nopardons said a congressional committe had approved the deal last November. When I asked for a link to that you said it was all over the place and I should be embarrassed for not knowing about it. Well if that's true then I'd like a link please because to my knowledge it was only CFIUS and not Congress who went along with it.

[CWOJackson]

"Because the ports were given away to..."

LOL! You can't move beyond your lie.

[durasell]

Gee, could they make it any more difficult to know who is in charge of what and who they report to?

[onyx]

Not in F16's case. He's sincere. He's wrong, of course, but he is sincere. I am trying to educate him...lol.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Go look it up in FR's search engine.

There's nothing to look up, no secret congressional committee ever approved of this deal.

[hedgetrimmer]

"Strengthening America's Shipyards: A Plan for Competing in the International Market" . The Clinton policy document you support.

[durasell]

It only matters if it matters. People make mistakes on threads all the time. They are caught, corrected, and it's over.

You can argue the facts or other people's mistakes. One is more product than the other.

[Howlin]

I suggest you read the thread I linked.

Congress has put some stipulations on it.

Nevertheless, it has been thoroughly researched and investigated since last November.

[hedgetrimmer]

"Strengthening America's Shipyards: A Plan for Competing in the International Market"

[Howlin]

Don't tempt them............LOL.

[cabojoe]

You do kinda have a sexual glow. (I love smart women...I married one!)

[Texasforever]

Bunky, you love the Clinis. You can't kid an old kidder. You were outed long ago.

[Howlin]

Well, regardless of her using the word "Congressional," you should be embarassed if after this week you still didn't know that it had been thoroughly vetted, which IS what you indicated.

[nopardons]

Nope, you neither "taught" any of us here, least of all me, that lobbying goes on in D.C. and you didn't make me "uncomfortable".

What you did do, is pull a SLICK WILLIE; you talked out of both sides of your mouth, slander Gen. Franks, and then tried to claim that you hadn't. Word games will NOT fly here.

This isn't D.C., you have NO idea just WHO is a member of FR, nor what and who they know; so save your imagined "insider" knowledge", for someone else.

No, what you were attempting to do, besides slandering Gen. Franks, is to impress the rest of us. You've failed miserably, on both accounts.

[Fruitbat]

There have been some dumb decisions since the United States was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, including the "welcoming" of radical Muslim groups, mosques and schools that seek by their preaching and teaching to influence U.S. foreign policy and undermine the nation. But the decision to sell port operations in New York, Newark-Port Elizabeth, Baltimore, Miami, Philadelphia and New Orleans to a company owned by the UAE may be the dumbest of all.

Nicely summed up!

Good to hear yet another intelligent media type laying out the facts!

[hedgetrimmer]

I believe you are the one supporting their policy.

[durasell]

You do know about the super-secret subcommittee of acronyms, don't you? The most powerful committee in congress. Nothing gets done without them in any branch of gov't. I've heard that hats and secret handshakes are involved....but I've already said too much.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

It's not about the stipulations of what CFIUS can or cannot do, it was whether Congress itself was directly involved in the decision-making process and they weren't as was claimed. But they will be shortly when they most likely overturn the deal.

[Pelham]

I didn't, for a moment, think that that description was of me. I merely pointed out how ridiculous a post it was.

Of course you did. I posted to someone other than you, didn't mention you, and yet you took my post to be about you. Lol. Try another explanation, your current try isn't credible.

As to being "scrawny and fidgety", I'm guessing that that's what YOU look like. It most assuredly doesn't describe me.

That was his guess, not mine. I voted for a double-wide, snack cake addict. Am I closer?

[Howlin]

so you have to know that NO ports have been sold, nor are any of our ports up for sale.

I cannot believe people are still repeating that lie as fact.