Posted on 03/08/2006 2:53:43 PM PST by Ooh-Ah
House Appropiations Committe voted to block Dubai deal
You and the BOTS were wrong about MIERS and your wrong about the Port Deal.
UAE won't kick us out. They need our protection, just as Kuwait did, more than
we need their ports.
The port deal within the US is only a very small part of the entire deal. P&O has contracts all over the world and the Brits just approved the sale. That means that the UAE will be running the ports that stuff is coming FROM, whether they get the US port deal or not. Currently, they are supporting us at all their ports, allowing US customs to have full access to all containers being shipped to the US. We turn them down, they have no reason to continue being so cooperative (most of the other companies aren't).
The EAU needs us and will do no such thing. I have one thing to say....
Rep. Duncan Hunter.
I think you have me confused with someone else. Didn't support Miers and I don't support this deal.
They won their little battle but wait until UAE react and ask us to leave our military bases in their country and kick out our FBI and CIA operatives there. Let see what the knee jerks will do when we lose the most important Arab ally in the war on terror.
What hyperbole on your part. Like they are going to kick out our military bases in their country when they are making money hand over fist by our having our bases there. We are a great boon for their economy by our mere presence. Why do you think the middle European countries like Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, etc. have been doing everything possible to get us to put our military bases in their countries, hmmmm? Because it is profitable for them to do so.
Funny how Dubai has become our alleged great ally and best friend in the Middle East when they have only been so for about four years. Hardly long enough to establish a track record, especially considering what they trafficked in before becoming our best bud's. As Reagan said, trust but verify. I do trust Duncan Hunter implicitly, and if Hunter has reservations, so do I. Are you happy that China has control of both ends of the Panama canal ports? Does that please you? How about the Chinese and the port they run in California. Do you sleep better knowing they are running it? Why in heaven's name would any rational person want to invite a potential fox into the chicken coop, eh? I trust no Arab, as they are taught in their own religion that lying to infidels (that's us, you know) is acceptable behavior to achieve their ends, which is dhimmitude for you and I. You can think this is a good deal. I think it stinks.
Maybe these principled statesmen will raise the minimum wage and pass an anti flag burning bill while they're at it.
We can trust them in many ways short of giving them any degree of control over vital infrastructure. It's amazing to me that the people who would howl the loudest if the US government tried to take over this function have absolutely no problem with an Arab government taking it over. You're all against nationalization, unless it's a foreign nation.
Yet another FR Jeanne Dixon?? (yawn)
You Bots kill me with your absurd "predictions."
Actually, I might have been mistaken to assign blame to the Brit company. We might be able to look right here at home if there are indeed lacks in trucker security at the ports.
Same point though.
You are very wrong. The UAE does not have any significant enemy inside their country as in Saudi Arabia. The vast majority of UAE citizens are law abiding citizens, they have good standards of living, and they have no problem with their rulers. They do not really need us to protect their regime.
Anyway, we are not anymore in Saudi Arabia and their regime is very much alive despite they have much more inside enemies than UAE has.
Well said.
I smell the American unions in so much of this bashing, and unions means RATS.
Actually, about 40% of union members are Republicans.
Well, they're sure as %&$* going to have to do something to save face with their citizenry and with other Arabs and Arab states. One can only hope that it will be cosmetic/superficial and not too damaging.
This president and his administration have been awe inspiring in the care, craftsmanship, and often downright cunning of their foreign policy; from the Chinese surveillance plane crisis to date. And have displayed consistent competence and achieved frequent success against often long odds (e.g. getting China to work with regional democracies on North Korea, even if they [the Chinese] haven't come as far as they should, the seven party talks are nevertheless an amazing accomplishment) and heavy, sometimes devious, opposition (e.g. French perfidy on Iraq). And have done this all while enacting the most sweeping (and idealistic) reforms in American foreign policy of the last half century.
Watching congress critters piss all over this -- half of them spineless and panick-stricken, the other half cynical demagogues -- is disgusting.
Of course the ultimate blame redounds to the viciously partisan and obstructionist 'Rats: The vile creatures who, determined to "Watergate" Bush, the absence of relevant basis be damned, have bit by bit destroyed public trust in the executive. This project has been nothing but hate-driven, as illustrated by the fact that the slime-slinging 'Rats have in the process damaged their own political viability as much or more than that of their target.
I think I'll step away from the computer now and vomit continuously.
I don't think we'll lose the bases. Now, we may have to compensate UAE somehow that we weren't planning to, in order to keep the intel flow going, if the deal does manage to get kaboshed. I'm still not convinced that's going to happen though.
Interesting how Schumer, who was going along with the 45 day review, now jumped off the Republicans cliff. Wonder if he thinks he's jumped on one huge out of control snowball.
Not confused, I just don't like attachments to military money because it opens more doors for all congressional members to hold troop money hostage. If they had enough votes to override a veto, as they claimed, then use a separate sheet of paper.
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