Posted on 05/04/2006 8:06:30 AM PDT by FerdieMurphy
I want my campaign contribution money back!
"Watch my lips! No new oval office manufactured crises.
Oval office? Congress gets yet another pass.
More hysteria and stupidity from the knee jerk bigot squad.
Fools or Frauds?
Anyone who spends all their time on Freeper as a supposed "Conservative" whining because the Conservatives Republican glass is only 60% full and actively working to turn over that glass so they can fill it 100% to the brim with Left wing political poison is either a political fool, who is too dumb to realize what they are doing, or a political fraud who is only pretending to be "Conservative". So which is it, fools or frauds?
In 1776, I'm thinking folks like George B and most in Congress would have been hung, or shot...
Dubai is part of the United Arab Emirates, a country that continues to pay money to the families of homicide bombers and to the Hamas terrorist group. It appears to have been protecting Osama bin Laden in the late 1990s for some period of time. America was unable to bomb Osama's hideout because he was meeting with officials of the government of the UAE. That makes it an active supporter of terrorism. It is a threat to national security. Yet President Bush seems eager to bring UAE-based businesses into as many sectors of the economy related to national security as possible. Why?
The President argues that the deal was approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS.) But as we learned during the Portgate deal, CFIUS has only disapproved one deal (by a Chinese company) since it was formed in 1988. The recommendation of CFIUS is essentially meaningless.
Where is the outrage? Where is the coalition that stopped the Portgate deal? Why isn't Congress on this issue, fighting to stop the terrorist government of the UAE from controlling a company that makes such vital military materials for our country? Rep. Peter King (R-NY), a leading opponent of the Portgate deal, has been quoted as saying, "This investigation was a significant improvement over what happened before." How is that, Representative King? Dubai is still an active supporter of terrorism. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) said, "There are two differences between this deal and the Dubai ports deal. First, this went through the process in a careful, thoughtful way; and second, this is a product not a service, and the opportunity to infiltrate and sabotage is both more difficult and more detectable." Of course, he forgets the possibility of sabotaging the product, making it defective, or otherwise undermining the quality so that it will be damaging to our troops in the War on Terror.
Allowing Dubai to manufacture arms for us is at least as dangerous as allowing it to run our ports. Unfortunately, it seems as if the political leaders who helped stop the Portgate deal were just posturing.
Where Is the Outrage at Bush's Dubai Arms Deal?
President Bush approved a deal to allow a company from Dubai, the country that was forced to withdraw from the Portgate deal, to take over American plants that make parts for jets and tanks for the United States.
Dubai is part of the United Arab Emirates, a country that continues to pay money to the families of homicide bombers and to the Hamas terrorist group. It appears to have been protecting Osama bin Laden in the late 1990s for some period of time. America was unable to bomb Osama's hideout because he was meeting with officials of the government of the UAE. That makes it an active supporter of terrorism. It is a threat to national security. Yet President Bush seems eager to bring UAE-based businesses into as many sectors of the economy related to national security as possible. Why?
The President argues that the deal was approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS.) But as we learned during the Portgate deal, CFIUS has only disapproved one deal (by a Chinese company) since it was formed in 1988. The recommendation of CFIUS is essentially meaningless.
Where is the outrage? Where is the coalition that stopped the Portgate deal? Why isn't Congress on this issue, fighting to stop the terrorist government of the UAE from controlling a company that makes such vital military materials for our country? Rep. Peter King (R-NY), a leading opponent of the Portgate deal, has been quoted as saying, "This investigation was a significant improvement over what happened before." How is that, Representative King? Dubai is still an active supporter of terrorism. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) said, "There are two differences between this deal and the Dubai ports deal. First, this went through the process in a careful, thoughtful way; and second, this is a product not a service, and the opportunity to infiltrate and sabotage is both more difficult and more detectable." Of course, he forgets the possibility of sabotaging the product, making it defective, or otherwise undermining the quality so that it will be damaging to our troops in the War on Terror.
Allowing Dubai to manufacture arms for us is at least as dangerous as allowing it to run our ports. Unfortunately, it seems as if the political leaders who helped stop the Portgate deal were just posturing.
I believe there are more "moderates" (those who stand for nothing but straddle the center line) than conservatives in the Republican Party. Therefore, I think the glass is about 35% full. Sixty-five percent is quite a leap.
As far as spreading venomous poison and being a political fool, I believe there are enough doing that in our elite Political Class as it is.
Do you really want muslims to be in charge of ANY security in the United States?
Do you truly want 12 million illegal, gullible illiterates (numbers being steadily increased as we discourse)clogging our arteries?
Should we just sit back and allow things to "take their course" until we are suffocated?
It is not I, sir or madam, that pretends to be conservative.
Indeed.
Some like johnny (above) want us to assume a fetal position and take it like a true "conservative." Otherwise, according to him, we are whining fools who poison the water trough of the GOP.
Name calling begins in the 3rd post.
Curious how the flame bots that go nuclear anytime the words Islam or Muslim come up fail completely to recognized the fact that that vast bulk of the people doing the fighting and dying for US in the War on Terror are Arab Muslims.
Amazing how rabidly arrogant the American Know Nothings, who never even been outside their own trailer park much less the country, are about the rest of the world. They are proof positive that ignorance is NOT bliss.
I agree, what is going on? Why is it OK for foriegn goverments to buy private Enterprises here in the USA. It is out ragious that we are selling private companies to foriegn government. What's next, are we going to sell Boeing to AirBus.
Deep down you probably know that but because it appears that you have an axe to grind you will continue to grind away.
I see nothing patriotic or intelligent in your insults and rantings and I do indeed have an irrational fear and HATE of muslims and what their garbage religion teaches.
Is not Dubai owned by the UAE, is it not a government owned company?
Run away and hide under your bed Fredie. The rest of us will save you butt despite your paranoia.
Follow the money. The ports deal had 0% to do with security and 100% to do with union politics.
Very well said!
Taht is not true. It had a lot to do with security. Allowing a nation that is an active supporter of terrorism to control our ports (and thus to control the manifests) would have been extremely dangerous.
Johnnie, you sweet talker! Still the flatterer, but no one will share your tent?
Too baaaaaaad . . . . .
Environmentalist blockades preventing us from drilling for our own resources, banning development of nuclear power. The behind the scenes weakening of our sovereignty, of our constitution in favor of world government run by the unelected elite in the UN.
We are in debt, and because of that assets were sold, and will be resold, and sold again on the open world market. Perhaps if we didn't spend so much of our capitol on foriegn oil, developed our own energy resources instead we would be able to buy some of them back.
I don't think there is much Bush CAN do other than to do what he did, put conditions on this legitimate sale of a company. It's up to our lawmakers to define protections for sensitive operations such as military manufacture and supply, especially guarding secrets of manufacturing we don't want getting out of the country. Why didn't congress do this before? It's good thing Bush saw the need for conditions.
It's wrong to think we make all of our military equipment here in the USA. In fact we import a great deal of it. Aircraft parts are made at several Canadian plants for example. We MUST however ensure that critical components and secrets do not fall into the wrong hands, or can be restricted in any way that could jeopardize our defense and strike capabilities. We do live in a capitalist system, and we must allow legitimate business to be conducted. Just as long as it doesn't effect our military capabilities and secrets, or allow any of it to fall into enemy hands.
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