Dubai threat to hit back (UAE Threatens Against Boeing and US Bases Support)

The Hill.com ^ | March 9, 2006 | Roxana Tiron

[Doofer]

We could also pull our military installations from thier country and let them do it thier own national security.

What military installations might those be?

[Freee-dame]

assuring us of the strength and stability of our alliance with our friend the Shah of Iran.

Please explain what it gained for us or for the people of Iran when Jimmy Carter pulled away our support of the Shah?

[AmeriBrit]

You need to change your tagline, 'cos it's evident you don't have a clue.

[gotribe]

I'm tired of threats by pissant countries. Screw them.

I agree. How can anyone in America stick up for a muslim country that issues such as threat. The deal's over. Now screw 'em indeed, all the way into the sand.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Seriously, read the whole thing. Even the dribble that Dobbs interjects. We can all excerpt the little slices that match an agenda. Heck, I have shifted my position a few degrees in the last 17 days. Even a blind hog finds truffles now and again. If the Dims are partially correct on something, we should not seek division. We should seek consensus.

[Sam the Sham]

You think we could have kept the Shah in power ? You wanted to send American troops to the streets of Teheran ?

[KJC1]

You keep mixing apples and oranges, on purpose because you keep doing it.

You will get NO argument from me saying Islam is great. It's telling that you keep skirting the question I asked about an important ally at a critical time. According to you, the WOT should/could be won with no cooperation from nations in that region. Given that, I guess you think the Iraqi troops we are training are doing nothing to fight terror either.

Let me make it simpler: What would YOU do to win the WOT?

[FreeReign]

Hunter:...but my criticism is based on 66 nuclear triggers being shipped through Dubai while American agents are sitting there asking the Dubai government not to let them go, and they say we don't care what America's position is; they're going.

Duncan Hunter continues to make this charge without citing any sources.

[KJC1]

No you made your point.

Coolio. We'll still disagree on the rest I'm sure, but thank you for that. :^)

[Dolphy]

If Duncan Hunter is so certain of his suspicions then why does he, as Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, allow the United States to have key military basing and at any given time tens of thousands of U.S. service members on leave in the United Arab Emirates?

[TexKat]

According to Duncan Hunter tonight on Hardball this transaction was dead in the water from the get go.

[Howlin]

I'll admit to being tired, but this sounds like Hunter, who gets briefs from Abizaid, saying he knows more than Abizaid.

I agree with you.

He's going to nationalize all our infrastructure; worrisome.

[Howlin]

Hunter is going to get some big time backlash, IMO.

[Sam the Sham]

Thinking you can reengineer the political culture of the Muslim world is just to be sucked into its internal ethnic civil wars (which is what those Shiite Iraqi soldiers are fighting) and played for a chump every time by the rival factions. None of whom are any 'ally' of yours.

Reagan realized that in Lebanon. The Israelis after a while realized that in Lebanon.

We can't 'win' the WOT without essentially, rewritting the Muslim faith. And that is not something we can do. We can after several generations of decimation impose a peace of exhaustion upon them. But they must themselves accept fear and despair as the condition of their lives.

[Howlin]

Duncan Hunter continues to make this charge without citing any sources.

Precisely. A week later and still no backup.

[TexKat]

Duncan Hunter continues to make this charge without citing any sources.

Duncan stated tonight that documents were turned over to GWB (who was unaware) of whatever info the documents contained.

[AmeriBrit]

Peach we're wasting our time and energy because some are incapable of understanding what was at risk here. Even now I'm reading where some are saying they're glad the SALE didn't go through.


I will be in Jerry Lewis's local office area on Tuesday and I'm making a point of going by his office and letting them know what a dirty trick he played adding the military defense bill to this.

[onyx]

Excellent question.

[TexKat]

Hunter is going to get some big time backlash, IMO.

Well, I will stand with Hunter and take some of the lashes right along with him.

[TigersEye]

GEN. JOHN ABIZAID, U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND: The United Arab Emirates is absolutely vital to our stake in the Arabian Gulf area, that they have been good partners, good allies.

Just another simple minded man.