STILLWELL: Bush and the Ports: The Honeymoon Is Over

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 3/8/6 | Cinnamon Stillwell

[ElPatriota]

I think you are pulling my leg.. :)

ok fine, we disagree.

[eskimo]

That may change and when it does the argument will be present to correlate the two, terrorism and Mexican Border.

I guess I can not see the logic in waiting until we are attacked before implementing common sense defensive measures.

[ElPatriota]

ELp to ELp... :) How did that happen? sorry. I tried responding to someone.

[eskimo]

where is the consistency here!

Political oportunists will consistantly disregard all but their greedy ploys and to those who are concerned about America, their actions may appear to be dangerously eratic and illogical. They are selling out America.

[Wasanother]

People will drive themselves nuts with all the would have, could have and should haves. Border Security is needed but to kill everything until the one thing is addressed would also not be practical nor would it be anymore security. The whole bureaucracy that you speak of can happen at light speed but history tells us that it won't happen until there is an emergency and it's not all Bush's fault.

[clawrence3]

Would shutting down every gas station in the U.S. be a "common sense defensive measure"?

[msg-84]

No, it was only eight years and six months between the first and second attack on the WTC. Who was in office during that eight years? I alway forget.

[eskimo]

Border Security is needed but to kill everything until the one thing is addressed would also not be practical nor would it be anymore security.

We hear all kinds of excuses and, to me, they are all BS. No need to kill anything, people living on the borders and volunteers would gladly do the job as they have for centuries.

[eskimo]

I was giving an average.

[Wasanother]

If there is enough volunteers to do the job, why is there a problem with the border?

[clawrence3]

Would shutting down every gas station in the U.S. be a "common sense defensive measure"?

[eskimo]

If there is enough volunteers to do the job, why is there a problem with the border?

What presently passes for government does not seem to want the job done.

[goodnesswins]

NO, YOU explain what "directs operations" means.....I need to understand what YOU THINK it means, before I can answer.

[eskimo]

Huh?

[angcat]

LOL

[El Gato]

a law can not be enforced retroactively.

Nobody told Clinton about that part. So, it no longer applies, apparently, to tax bills.

[Cboldt]

Pre 9/11 this would not have been a big deal, after 9/11, it is...

Port terminal control was a big deal with COSCO, both before and after 9/11/2001.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1590822/posts (scroll down)

[Americanexpat]

If the last six years was a honeymoon for Bush I´d hate to see the marriage.

[Wasanother]

Write your congressman whether Democrat or Republican and you'll get the same,"we're working on it". As for the President,"must go" as the other poster claimed, he doesn't make law and since he's never vetoed anything, nothing concerning the Mexican border has been proposed to him.

[eskimo]

NO, YOU explain what "directs operations" means.....I need to understand what YOU THINK it means, before I can answer.

Hint: One word is a verb and the other a noun. Use the traditional English language definitions. That's exactly what I mean. If I must explain something that simple, I'm afraid any explanation would also be, to you, ambiguous.