Posted on 03/02/2006 3:01:32 PM PST by Dave S
03/02/06 FOX Poll: Most Oppose Port Deal; Republicans Lose Ground Thursday, March 02, 2006 By Dana Blanton PHOTOS
Most Americans oppose allowing a Dubai company to run some U.S. ports, even as a majority understands the U.S. would continue to control port security, according to a new FOX News poll. One in four sees the United Arab Emirates as a strong ally, but most either disagree or are unsure.
In addition, the poll shows Republicans have lost ground on the issue of terrorism, and by a wide margin voters now think it would be better for the country if Democrats win control of Congress in this year’s midterm election.
For only the second time of his presidency, the poll finds that President Bush’s overall job approval rating has fallen below 40 percent — today 39 percent of Americans say they approve and a 54 percent majority disapproves. Late last year the president’s approval hit a record-low of 36 percent (8-9 November 2005).
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Please, I'm waiting on tenderhooks for the truth to be revealed to me. /sarc
Was thought to have taken place for a while somewhere in the U.A.E.
It was thought, located somewhere in UAE.
A man somewhere in the UAE.
All the accusations are like this.
Not one single piece of evidence linking this company, this group of managers, to any of this activity.
So do you have one single credible accusation to make against this specific deal, this specific company, these specific people?
This is a free country, and if they want to follow President Bush as he leads the Republican Party over a cliff, then that's their prerogative.
However, don't expect me to join them.
Hate to tell you Dan since you don't read the Wall street Journal. The contract and purchase agreements were signed Midnight last night right on the time the closing was set. DP owns P&Q and they are already changing the logos. Brilliant George snuck one in you.
You wanna talk about Harold Washington, who sent all of the salt trucks and snow removal trucks to the South Side, instead of clearing MAJOR city streets, so that people who weren't on welfare, couldn't get to work on time?
Wanna talk about "sweetheart deals" and graft and corruption, do ya, do ya, do ya hunh? :-)
Oh goody........you mentioned the TURN AROUND, AFTER 9/11! We've been saying that for days now, yet the people who don't want the deal to go through ( which America has NO influence on )keep saying that nothing has changed; but it has, it has.
In fact, you can even post a vanity devoted solely to that subject.
You can entitle it Schadenfruede: Why Gerard has egg on his face and Sinky is the most prescient, insightful FReeper on this board.
You can even begin archiving material right now.
Start with this post.
Is ZIM an Israeli company? Do Jews work at it?
Was Citibank used by the al Qaeda bunch?
Did America turn a blind eye to terrorists and al Qaeda members, withing her own border?
Were rabid, fanatical, foaming at the mouth "sheiks" allowed to preach and instruct and lead bombing plans in Brooklyn?
I can go on and on with all kinds of "connect the dots" game too. But I'm not into tinfoil.
Yo all seeing and all knowing jack of all trades, did they move out or not? Yes or no. Do not answer with a question. Simply answer yes or no. Anything beyond yes or no is a non answer and assumes your answer and your knowledge to be yes.
When people base suspicions on zero evidence, what do you call that?
You are suspicious of the folks who run this company. What evidence do you have that those folks are a security risk?
You answered, because "some guy in their country made a call" and "some people suspect that this banker moved that money".
I'm sorry. I'd like to believe you. If you could show me some real connection between those events and this company, I *swear* I'll listen.
But this is just weak, dude.
I really wish I had a special button to hit, so that I could stop posting that BPW isn't buying our ports, etc.! This has gotten very old.
Did America turn a blind eye to terrorists and al Qaeda members, withing her own border? Were rabid, fanatical, foaming at the mouth "sheiks" allowed to preach and instruct and lead bombing plans in Brooklyn?
I can go on and on with all kinds of "connect the dots" game too. But I'm not into tinfoil.
Really? You give a great impersonation of tinfoil hat. A rose by any other name.
wrong again just as you have been on all counts regarding this deal...deal did not close
Let's face it...The world does not want to believe that intelligent people listen to Michael Savage!
And agree with him!
That is the bottom line!
I'll reiterate, DP World and the UAE are inextricably linked.
It's not a matter of trusting this or that CEO, or CFO, but whether or not you trust the people who run the United Arab Emirates.
I don't.
If I wore tinfoil and a conspiracy KOOK, I guess that I could write it all, in such a way, to make you believe that it REALLY was President Bush's idea and plan, that was implemented on 9/11; but I don't think that way.
It only took 19 to murder 3,000.
awh shucks, it was just one of those wierd coincidences it happens all the time.
Let's see if they (our proud proponents) can prove the move did not happen. I would really like to know. I think we all have right to know.
Scoff if you must, but I didn't see anyone laughing when 19 Arabs-15 Saudis, one Egyptian, one Lebanese, and two people from the UAE-managed to murder over 2,800 Americans four years ago.
You never did point out which of my questions was untrue. You just changed tatics. As usual.
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