Posted on 02/21/2006 12:56:16 PM PST by Jeremiah2911
WASHINGTON — In a rare display of his veto authority President Bush said Tuesday he will put the kibosh on any legislation that attempts to stop the purchase by a United Arab Emirates-owned firm of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., which runs six major U.S. ports.
Breaking a gaping silence during the debate of the purchase by Dubai Ports World, Bush said the deal should go forward and won't jeopardize U.S. security.
Officials from the Cabinet departments that participate in the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States, which approved the sale last Monday, are appearing in a briefing Tuesday afternoon to defend the process by which CFIUS reviewed and approved the deal.
Officials from the Treasury, Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security will participate.
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A British company has had control of these ports for years. Foreign interests have had intimate access to our national policy and economic planning and policy for years.
Your right. I like Rush, but he can be wrong on many things, like NAFTA that he was touting so much on his show.
Nah.....ain't drinking THAT Kool-Aid..and you shouldn't either.
What is becoming clear to me is that people are clouded by propaganda. These ports will be maned by unioned americans, and that is who will do the security. This has been blown out of water because of dims wanting to make hay of each day's news.
Nonsense or rot. That's what it means. The etymology is uncertain, so my guess of arabic will remain, although Hebrew is equally likely and amounts to the same.
"I don't understand why it's OK for a British company to operate our ports but not a company from the Middle East when we've already determined security is not an issue," Bush told reproters after an unusual decision to call media aboard Air Force One to the airplane's conference room.
"I want to show that we treat everyone fairly," he said, adding that denying DP World the sale would send a mixed message.
Ah! He is speaking to the Arab street here. Will they listen?
has been blown out of water because of dims wanting to make hay of each day's news
Amen, keep repeating it!
He's actually going to veto something?
That is a good point. However, more money is generated from oil. Do you drive a car?
And Bush made her all squishy inside.
I suspect this is the real motive...And you can bet that millions of Americans are figurin' the same thing...
George just challanged the American People...I say let's take him up on his challange...
Unbelievably stupid.
Hmmm. Does President Bush even know what a veto is?
I heard even Haliburton didn't operate ports but I don't know if that's true.
"It LOOKS bad"
Probably also "feels" bad to some uneducated people too. Looks and feeling are not the way to govern. That is how the democrats do it.
Grown ups get the facts and base their decisions on facts. Children deal on looks and feelings.
Amen!
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