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

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

[jess35]

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? This is ancient history.

I had no idea Jay Bennish was your history teacher.

[dfwgator]

And just maybe the GOP who voted for this, know that in fact, it would be overturned. So it turns out as a "win-win", the port deal goes through, and they can tell their constituents that they opposed it.

[veracious]

UAE's tying our denial of there managing our ports, doesn't related at _all_ to them buying our airplanes and getting paid to put up our naval ships. We're not threatening them in any way, we gain no inside breach of their security. Our navy could sail in and drop anchor if we wanted. How do these offerings relate to allowing them an inside to our port operations?

This like allowing a thief and potential killer to live in my house, in exchange for his buying my used car and giving me a ride to work on pre-arranged days.

DUH!

[prairiebreeze]

I'm hoping it's just a small slap of reality at congress. A symbolic shot across the bow, so to speak.

[mbraynard]

You are an ass.

UAE has put itself at tremendous risk by allying with the US. Our ships port there safely. Our troops vaca there. We also have an air base there. Their support was essential to our Iraqi liberation and continuing support for it.

They also land two flights a day from the UAE Airlines in Dulles, overflying the US capital twice a day - among other airports. They have gates there and at other airports.

And now, after all of that, the US House and Senate almost unanomously say that the same family that has made the UAE safe for us may not have a partial ownership in a multinational because they are essentially Osama-style raghead terrorists.

On a very personal level, this would be like having the brother you have pulled out of one mess after another and then to have him tell the police a fabrication that you a child molester.

Put yourself in their shoes a moment and think about it.

[Peach]

Oh brother. Clueless.

[kinghorse]

yeah they are good with taking our paper for grins. don't be an id-jut. our money will find a home. it can come back here or go to less savory places. our choice.

[wmfights]

"It seems to me this is a win/win for the Democrats. They get to damage the economy, alienate an ally in the war on terror, and make Bush look bad, all while posturing as defenders of our national security. What a coup, and credit must be given to their useful idiots on the Republican side who went along."
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Don't forget, empowering the unions that work at the ports and/or causing a new federal bureaucracy to be created to operate the ports.

[isrul]

Furious mohammedans threatening to retaliate. Nothing new about that. Congress would have to be crazy to allow the deal to go through, now.

[.cnI redruM]

And that in a month where the very same people who hate this ports deal are over on other FR threads griping about the trade deficit.

[dfwgator]

I'm not for discouraging foreign investment in America - just Arab investment.

Especially when you consider the fact that the most populous Muslim country, Indonesia, isn't even Arab.

[Blogger]

We are doing that to numerous allies these days. Including the UK.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Speaking of Hillary.... see my post directly above. Bill Clinton has a hand in all this.

[steve-b]

I also strongly suspect that the UAE government provided some assurances to Bush administration officials, that have not been and cannot be made public, due to popular political sensitivities in the UAE.

Actually, I doubt that, given that this whole fiasco is clearly the result of the Bush administration's utter failure to anticipate an obvious perception problem and lay some basic political groundwork to head it off.

[dead]

I said only that your contention that they will not let our military use their ports is asinine. And I stand by that. It's asinine.

They may not buy equipment from Boeing. That's up to them. That's business.

[kabar]

We are on the same wavelength. I misread your response.

[doug from upland]

At the very start of this I worried about the use of their terrority in an attack on Iran. This is going to hurt us and our planning for what to do about Iran nukes. I worry more about Iran than the UAE.

[justshutupandtakeit]

You obviously must explain EVERYTHING to those willing to follow the lead of the Party of Treason. Not that they could understand what you explain.

[Lekker 1]

A source close to the deal said members of Dubai’s royal family are furious at the hostility both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill have shown toward the deal.

This whole brou-haha is based on "a source close to the deal"? WTF?

[bwteim]

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