How soon we forget.
Posted on 03/17/2006 4:57:12 AM PST by IrishMike
No other way? How about a racist anti-Arab liberal media stoking the fires, and helped along by racist anti-Arabs like Hitlery and Chuckles Schumer?
Actually it worked for the Viet Cong. I think it was Walter Cronkite who blew the tet offensive out of proportion and started the dominoes falling into what would turn into 1.5 million innocent people being massacred by the khmer rouge in Cambodia.
Posted repeatedly and often here over the past 4 weeks.
Sorry you didn;t read any of the factual articles.
Smart? must be why we had clinton for eight years.
"Name any other Presidential idea or policy that had a 19% favorable rating since President Bush has been in office."
That doesn't really address my point, does it? I mean about informed vs. uninformed (and sometimes biggoted) opinion.
As far as Islam being a peaceful religion, I'd say it was fairly peaceful until the rise of radical Islam back in the 1970s. Most American Muslims are peaceful. The Koran contains a lot of hate and angry talk, to be sure, but until the past 30 years or so, most enlightened Muslims ignored such talk or viewed it similarly to how most Christians view troubling portions of the Bible.
By all accounts, UAE is in the process of becoming an "enlightened" Muslim country. We ought to encourage such a shift. It can help us win this struggle.
Yeah, Chicoms have slaughtered millions of human beings and fought two major wars against America (Korea and Vietnam), and possess nuclear weaponry and intercontinental ballistic missals. Jihadists have blown themselves up periodically and taken a few of us with them along the way.
You are right. No comparison at all.
Let me see if I have this straight. You are willing to nuke one-third of our annual GDP?
How soon we forget.
No shadow groups. Just knee-jerk commentators and pandering politicians. Give me the facts please so that I too might understand just how uniformed I am along with the American people?
Well, here's one. The vast majority of the opponents of this deal repeatedly referred to it as the UAE "taking over our ports". That's just flatly untrue. Yet, even when you'd point that out to an opponent, they'd continue using that same misleading verbiage.
but I fail to see how you get a 19% favorable even if you take your allegations seriously.
Hell, if they really were "taking over our ports", I'd have opposed it too. It was just that when this story came out, I called one of my naval buddies, and then talked to a former merchant ship captain a couple of days after that. They couldn't believe the level of disinformation.
Uh yes you basically did in your reply #11.
What happened in the Korean war then?
Allies is what you meant to spell, but I understand your point although I think you are dead wrong. The UAE, Saudi Arabia and others in the region use the Palestinian people as a tool to control the masses. With their vast fortunes, are you trying to tell me that they couldn't find a peaceful solution to the Palestinian problem? It's easier to use them as a wedge any time they need to play up Arab nationalism. Pathetic!
"I favored clinton go on trial for Treason."
As Dane said, 70% of the American people did not want Clinton impeached. He was not impeached, and got away with perjury and obstruction of justice.
Now, stand and cheer for the people you trusted, and thank them for not paying attention to you.
Well, well. I'm glad that 81% of Americans (let's just conservatively estimate that 50% of whom didn't even know where Dubai was until last month, and 95% of whom still don't know what a CFIUS is) are smarter than 100% of the decision makers with all the information. You know, the ones charged via CFIUS with - first and foremost - defending our nation. (You did know that, right? Of course you did.)
Thank you, thank you, thank you. That is just an excellent point. 9/11 happened here because we were incompetent, not because we were knowingly complicit. DPW is efficient as hell, and I think to the extent a terminal operator would have any role in security at all, we're less safe because they won't be running those terminals.
Can you name any off the top of your head? I mean you should have these talking points down if you want to argue that it was a mistake to deny the deal.
Why attack what you can peacefulyl takeover by emigration?
sorry dane, but you know I didn't.
this is where we are. it will be useless to reply to you again.
Good to see you too.
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