What DPW Wrought

The Strata-Sphere ^ | March 14th, 2006 | AJStrata

[F16Fighter]

"The DPW deal seems to have done something which needed doing: expose some serious flaws on the right side of the political spectrum."

Of course you mean "conservatives," don't you?

But you folks have exposed as the ugly under-belly of the RINO-globalists of the GOP center-left and purveyors of it's anti-U.S. sovereignty agenda.

It's clear who's been pandering to who in the name of power over principle since the year 2000.

[FreeReign]

Isn't it funny how you Dubai port deal apologists babble about how 'racist' people are who opposed the deal while you go on and prattle about how Great White Father will use it to transform and enlighten his little brown children. There is another kind of racism you know, and it is your White Missionary assumption that every 'heathen' wants to be just like you. The arrogant, imperialist assumption that you have that level of moral and cultural influence over them.

Let the record show that it is "Sam the Sham" who is calling people racist.

Let the record show that it is "Sam the Sham who says that we who support our actions in Iraq think that the Iraqis are a bunch of "little brown people".

BTW, the people of Iraq wrote their own Constitution. We the "Great White Father" didn't write it.

[Dark Skies]

Take a good hard look at who our allies are...and who the enemy really is.

This isn't an economic war. It isn't an ideological war.

This war is allah against non-allah. It is an old war...nothing has really changed...except now it is our time to die.

Unless we decide to get real...and fight for what is right!

Which side are you on?

[F16Fighter]

Great post...

Too bad the delusionally obsessive won't get it.

[Miss Marple]

Ah, yes, that evil canard we hear all the time...that we (shudder) want to win elections! How unprincipled of me.

Of course, all of the principles in the world don't mean a thing if you don't have the power to implement them. That is why I am a pragmatic conservative, and not a "principled" one.

I don't feel one bit guilty about it, either.

Good night.

[eyespysomething]

LOL! I missed this earlier! LOL!

You could have added "And that's the way it is."

[Dark Skies]

As founders of religions go...this isn't the world's finest moment...this is hell on earth!!!

[F16Fighter]

" I am a pragmatic conservative, and not a 'principled' one.

I don't feel one bit guilty about it, either."

Some prefer to see what they want to see in the mirror.

Pleasant dreams.

[SittinYonder]

Courage.

[eyespysomething]

LOL, even better!

[hedgetrimmer]

BTW, the people of Iraq wrote their own Constitution

Sorry, the UN did it with our help. The people of Iraq did not write their own constitution.

Encouraging efforts by the people of Iraq to form a representative government based on the rule of law that affords equal rights and justice to all Iraqi citizens without regard to ethnicity, religion, or gender, and, in this connection, recalls resolution 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000,

Welcoming the first steps of the Iraqi people in this regard, and noting in this connection the 15 April 2003 Nasiriyah statement and the 28 April 2003 Baghdad statement,

Resolved that the United Nations should play a vital role in humanitarian relief, the reconstruction of Iraq, and the restoration and establishment of national and local institutions for representative governance,

Noting the statement of 12 April 2003 by the Ministers of Finance and Central Bank Governors of the Group of Seven Industrialized Nations in which the members recognized the need for a multilateral effort to help rebuild and develop Iraq and for the need for assistance from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in these efforts,

http://www.iraqiconstitution.org/files/RESOLUTION%201483%20(22%20MAY%202003)%20SANCTIONS%20LIFT.doc

[HardStarboard]

>>>If you think AQ isn't all over Africa you're kidding yourself.<<<

And moving into South America!!

One of the most threatening is their movement into our prisons.....we have something like 1.2 million in our prisons and if only 1 in ten starts "liking" the militant Muslim credo....big trouble!!

[SealSeven]

If you think AQ isn't all over Africa you're kidding yourself.

And if you think Islam is not AQ, your kidding yourself. “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued” (Qur’an 9:29).

There are over a hundred verses in the Qur’an that exhort believers to wage jihad against unbelievers. JMO, The real problem here is not race. The real problem is islam.

[World'sGoneInsane]

The premise of the article is that all opponents are only anti-Dubai. My thought (and probably quite a few others) is that American ports should be serviced by the majority of American companies. I'm not posting to argue the point, but I just want that point straightened out.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Why Poor Countries Are Poor - The clues lie on a bumpy road leading to the world’s worst library.

Dubai is prosperous, comparatively uncorrupt, and likely to get even richer.

How do you know nobody wants to change? Got any sources for that that aren't MSM or Islamist?

[Cannoneer No. 4]

The Political Quiz Show

Are there any conservatives on the left side?

[Junior_G]

Fascinating about how you shift gears from "our great friends the UAE" to "be careful, now they will hurt us so we should have kept them happy" without any consciousness of contradiction or irony.

Good point, and one worth repeating.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

I think you have misidentified the premise.

Should most of the shipping be American-flag carriers?

[Cannoneer No. 4]

The Key Strategic Question

[Sam the Sham]

What the Emir of Dubai wants and the man in the street want are two different things. What the Shah wanted and the Iranian man in the street wanted were two different things.