Avoiding Another Dubai

Bump for an informative article.

21 posted on 02/27/2006 9:22:37 PM PST by CWOJackson

Uh oh...talking to yourself is a sure sign bud...

22 posted on 02/27/2006 9:24:15 PM PST by sit-rep (If you acquire, hit it again to verify...)

bumping for others to read. Did you read the article?

23 posted on 02/27/2006 9:25:22 PM PST by CWOJackson

"Mid-level officials at 12 agencies of the U.S. government, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon, reviewed the Dubai investment in considerable depth, apparently with full cooperation from the company. They unanimously concluded that there was no reason to refer it to their own superiors, let alone the president. The substance of the government's vetting process, conducted through the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), worked precisely as intended by the legislation under which it operates."

So its not Bush's fault? Blasphemy!

24 posted on 02/27/2006 9:32:10 PM PST by Democratshavenobrains

25 posted on 02/27/2006 9:33:09 PM PST by Cannoneer No. 4 (Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)

Yes sir, I did. Not too many get by. But I still have grievance with foreign investments and arab / islamic work visas. Call me anything but late for dinner!!

26 posted on 02/27/2006 9:35:01 PM PST by sit-rep (If you acquire, hit it again to verify...)

To: Willie Green

CFIUS was set up by Congress to keep Congress and politics out of the process.

27 posted on 02/27/2006 9:35:21 PM PST by Cannoneer No. 4 (Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)

To: Willie Green

28 posted on 02/27/2006 9:36:17 PM PST by Cannoneer No. 4 (Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)

It's a good read that lays open this whole fabricated non-crisis and what's driving it. It sure has more bearing on the situation then the "Neil Bush" stuff.

29 posted on 02/27/2006 9:36:49 PM PST by CWOJackson

To: Cannoneer No. 4

So what's your point?

30 posted on 02/27/2006 9:38:10 PM PST by sit-rep (If you acquire, hit it again to verify...)

I never clicked into a Neil Bush link...not interested.

31 posted on 02/27/2006 9:39:21 PM PST by sit-rep (If you acquire, hit it again to verify...)

32 posted on 02/27/2006 9:39:44 PM PST by Cannoneer No. 4 (Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)

33 posted on 02/27/2006 9:40:06 PM PST by CWOJackson

34 posted on 02/27/2006 9:42:09 PM PST by CWOJackson

35 posted on 02/27/2006 9:54:32 PM PST by Cannoneer No. 4 (Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)

36 posted on 02/27/2006 10:05:09 PM PST by Cannoneer No. 4 (Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)

To: Cannoneer No. 4

cmon man...I get it. from here on out, just consider me the bigot in regard to reasons why not. that will make it easier for ya.

37 posted on 02/27/2006 10:07:06 PM PST by sit-rep (If you acquire, hit it again to verify...)

To: CWOJackson; Cannoneer No. 4; nopardons; Howlin; Calpernia; Grampa Dave; BOBTHENAILER

I have called my two senators' DC offices, my congressman's DC office, Bill Frist and Denny Hastert's offices, and the White House Comment Line in support of the operational transfer.

The deal is security safe and economically wise. The objections to it are hysterical and ignorant--even hypocrital: viz. Senator Hillary She-Who-Must-Be-Oyveyyed.

She Who Cannot Recall cannot recall that she had no such breathless objections to foreign control of port operations when the PRC-owned COSCO was cleared for Long Beach--or when she and traitor-rapist42 pulled our Ambassador and dispatched Carville to Panama and rigged the bidding to insure Li Ka-shing COJZ (Comrade of Jiang Zemin) was cleared for control of Cristobal and Balboa flanking our BC (Before Carter) Canal.

UAE remains our ally in a region where to be such is to live dangerously. Yet we are allowed some 500 naval vessel visits annually and have the critical use of air basing--basing which will become vital when it is time for us to deprogram Mahmoud The Mahdi Knee Pad's nuclear program for the erasure of the Zionist entity.

As my poli sci department head would say, Look at a map. There is UAE on Iran's southern flank filling out the line with Iraq on the west and Afghanistan to the east.

And the UAE's proximity to the Strait of Hormuz makes our defense of that vital chokepoint doable when the Tyrants of Tehran attempt to act on their threat to shut off the oil tap.

The so-infallible congress (including Densa member Susan Collins) allowed Jamie's Wall and allowed its constructor to sit on the 911 Commission instead of being righteously bitch-slapped by it.

The brouhaha is too funny in light of the almighty congress having damaged national security beyond knowing by blandly accepting 42's failure to accept OBL from Sudan, failure to approve taking the Hellfire shot(s) September/October 2000 from the Predator with the "tallest man in Afghanistan" center-mass.

And finally, if UAE is such a threat to our national security, why did the co-Presidents Clinton sell it sixty (60) F-16s in 1998?

Hillary for national security--it is to laugh.

38 posted on 02/27/2006 10:08:56 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)

Very good!

Earlier today I sent a personal letter to the UAE Embassy thanking them for being such a strong Alli in this war, and urging them to not judge America too harshly over the actions of our press and some commentators.

39 posted on 02/27/2006 10:13:55 PM PST by CWOJackson

40 posted on 02/27/2006 10:14:18 PM PST by Cannoneer No. 4 (Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)

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