Posted on 03/10/2006 8:26:48 AM PST by indcons
What sends a bad message is doing business with a company owned by a foreign govt who will not do business with Israel, one of our key allies. I understand we may have some sort of under the table deal for UAE to support us on the war on terror, but Bush didn't think this through before he said he would veto regardless.
If our government does what is best for the country, who cares how other governments interpret the message?
Bush's sentiments are too P.C. for me -- in this instance.
In almost all other issues, I support our President. But I won't support him blindly.
The Democratic Party got this country into real trouble, by giving in completely to Clinton and not calling him on his mistakes. Our country paid a big price.
I am proud of the Republican majority who is not giving President Bush a free hand. Our leaders don't need a constituency made up of "yes" men; our leaders need our constructive input (whether they want it or not).
Perhaps you're able to multi-task. I'm impressed!
Heck yes it sends a really bad message. The message is the government is really controlled by unelected bureaucrats who answer to no one, and 98% of them have a logical thought processing ability that would make an amoeba ashamed.
Note the wide raging use of "rulings" by various executive agencies. That's legislation without representation, something this country was founded AGAINST!
My knee jerk reaction to the port deal was to say "heck no" but I refrained from posting anything until I had done my homework and could come to a conclusion based on facts rather than emotion. Once I gathered the facts, I supported the port deal and began posting my reasons why.
In all of my fact gathering I didn't hear anything from the WH other than about the veto. I don't know whether the facts were presented and not reported on or whether the WH didn't make any statements except about the President using the veto.
Either way, there wasn't enough information coming from the WH to offset the naysayers. I see that as a failure on the part of the WH.
Everything changed after 9/11 - or didn't you get that memo?
And you learned nothing from your economic classes, oh wait a minute those "classes" were in union halls between trips to the keg, nevermind.
Well, thanks for not bringing it up on this thread.
You must not be connected to cable or the Internet: www.whitehouse.gov ?
The emir of Dubai has fully funded 24 christian churches, from what I've read on another thread.
Since I have no source, just take that as a refutation of your sourceless question, and go do the research if you actually care whether you could have a christian church in the UAE. I believe you will find that you CAN have such a church.
The UAE has a good enough relationship with Israel that Isreal supported the deal.
Well, thanks for not bringing it up on this thread.
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From another thread. An American company got beat out of the sell by P&O by DP World and because Eller couldn't win in the court of law, they simply lobbyied Warner who said he would look into it. That wasn't enough so he went to Schumer who made hay.
The bottom line is this was a business deal UNDERCUT by a competitor of DP World. This was purely a lobbyist play by Eller. If, in the end they get this deal, there should be a serious examination of the money trail from Eller to Schumer, Clinton, et al.
Well stated. The government of Jordan doesn't hate us either. That being said, the recent epiphany of the UAE with respect to Al Qaeda does not excuse their prior bad acts nor their continued support of Hamas.
Uh CFIUS was passed by the elceted representatives in Congress.
Message=We eat our own.
It's not about sending bad messages.
It's about doing the right thing, and if it might be unpopular, communicating about it.
You think a recovering alcoholic would know a little about personal responsibility,accountability -- and looking at their part in any situation -- by now. Sheesh.
Bingo.
The White House mishandled the politics. They probably were naive to expect republicans in congress to act like republicans, rather than going off half-cocked without any facts and jumping on the hysteria bandwagon.
The white house overestimated the congressional republicans, and we have paid dearly for that.
That is no excuse for congress. WHen things go bad, there are usually many different ways they could have been made to come out better, all of which are culpable.
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