Bush: Ports Deal Collapse May Hurt U.S.

AP via yahoo.com ^ | March, 10 2006 | JENNIFER LOVEN

[doc30]

Looks like we send them machinery, aircraft, vehicles and electrical machinery.

How long before someone suggests we should cut of this trade since some of this equipment will get into the hands of terrorists? The objections to this deal will have long lasting, negative consequences for the U.S. but the Dems, and some on FR, have elected the isolationist point of view.

[Howlin]

I do.

And a lot of it is right on this site.

[Indy Pendance]

I'm on a mission.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1594311/posts?page=120#120

[ohioWfan]

You two are amusing me. :)

[BobS]

Forget this site. We can't pull this off if we wanted to. All we do is provide information. I want to get to who is screwing up our country's foreign relations for their benefit. And using our media as a means to effect emotional opinions.

[Howlin]

Well, here's one clue:

Privately, many Democrats conceded the xenophobic and anti-Arab strains to their rhetoric made them uncomfortable. But opinion polls that showed the issue hurting Bush's popularity and GOP chances in November prompted them to step up their attacks.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1594180/posts

[Indy Pendance]

Thanks. :)

Scientists at NASA have developed a gun built specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields.

British engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high speed trains. Arrangements were made, and when the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurdled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, crashed through the control console, snapped the engineer's backrest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin.

Horrified Britons sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield, and begged the U.S. scientists for suggestions. NASA's response was just one sentence, "THAW THE CHICKEN!"

[BobS]

Screw the democrats. Somebody like Soros needs a .50 cal enema to send a message to people that want to alter U.S. foreign policy. This didn't happen in a vacuum.

[John Valentine]

If you or I go thru a major transportation hub called an airport we are treated as potential criminals, but If a state owned business from terrorist central buys a whole set of transportation hubs its no problem.

WOW!

Are you REALLY as ignorant as your post suggests?

Since when is the second-most used port ob the US Navy "terrorist central"? Have you the first freaking idea what you are talking about? Have you EVER been to Dubai? The place is all about BUSINESS, not terrorism.

The UAE is an ALLY, or has Chuckie Schumer so mesmerized you that this fact has passed beyond notice?

And just who is buying "a whole set of transportation hubs"? Dubai's state owned port operations company just bought out a British-owned company, P&O. P&O happens to own operating rights to cargo terminal at several US ports (just as does the shipping arms of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, China, Japan, Korea, Norway, and other US trading partners).

BFD.

Why aren't these terminal American owned, you might ask, thus revealing your ignorance about terminal operations all around the world. They are operated by associate comapnies to world-wide shipping lines, NONE OF WHICH ARE AMERICAN-OWNED.

If you are an American, why don't you buy one yourself? Or, at least read a book. You might come off a little less ignorant than at present.

[John Valentine]

Yep, the Democrats just can't seem to find the bottom. No matter how far they sink, they always seem to find a way to go lower.

[Howlin]

They never fail to amaze me.

BTW, good to see you.

[McGavin999]

Yes I do. I guess you make a lot of enemies when you're conducting a war and cleaning house at the same time.

[Howlin]

I agree that something is going on that we don't understand; there are just too many "concerted" things going on at the same time for it to be coincidental.

I just can't quite put my finger on what it is...

[1rudeboy]

I don't know if I qualify as an old-timer, but I tried to stay off the DPW threads for almost two weeks. Wasn't there a word to describe the mentality being shown early on? I know it's not "coven," but that is the only word that's sticking in my mind right now. The word I'm thinking of pre-dates "bushbot."

I seem to recall it being used to describe a general level of hysteria.

[BobS]

There is more to this that will come to us. And likely not involving money from the UAE. A third entity is what I'm looking for. A cutout that wants both the U.S. and the UAE to lose respectability.

[McGavin999]

That's one of the major problems with being an observer. We're too far away to pick up on the inside story. We have to put things together with a dropped hint here and there.

My best guess would be that the Bush administration is getting too close to something buried deep in the bowels of Washington.

[SerpentDove]

You should really check out the Robotic Pack Mule link that Indy sent me!

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Moderator, could you please change the title of this thread to :

"Enough Already with the Ports Squabble For A While, We'll Be At Each Other's Throats Tomorrow, It's The Weekend, We're Really All On The Same Side In The End Anyway, and It's Time To See Wonderful World of the Magical Robotic Pack Mule."

Thanks!

SerpentDove

[McGavin999]

Bushbot is a term that is flung at anyone who disagrees with someone. Usually one of the 1 percenters. The general hysteria was egged on here by a lot of people who were deliberately trying to spread dis-information.

Freepers, as a rule, tend to research things, not jump off a cliff following some mindless leader.

[Indy Pendance]

no one likes my jokes. :(

[Greenpees]

You are absolutely correct. I can't believe our fellow conservatives can't see this for what it is.