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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"Yes. 9/11. The hijackers used the UAE for financial and operational support. 'nuf said'
And the left from US owned, controled, and operated Ports.
I'd trust the UAE over the people that are hired by the Miami government any day.
OED says, "origin obscure," and guesses at Aramaic or anglo-Hebraic.
ML/NJ
"Who said that the new owner will still use US dockworkers?"
Its up to the Ports of Authorities to contract for labor. They are big-time dems.
"Jimmy 'give the Panama Canal to the Red Chinese' Carter is all for it... "
This is almost too dopey to comment on.
The Panama Canal is owned by the country of Panama.
It's clear, reading between the lines, that there's a big quid pro quo deal going on here. We pretend they care about our port security, despite common sense and past transgressions, including 9/11, for God's sake, and they do...what? Cooperate and let us know where the bad guys are? Help catch them? Lock them up? Promise not to commit Jihad against the West? Continue to sell us oil? All of the above? But we can't talk about this out loud for fear of offending Egypt? Syria? Jordan? Iran and Iraq? As John Kerry says about other things, 'It's complicated'.
Any way you slice it, it stinks.
It's all about deals under the table that the general dumb public is considered too stupid or prejudiced or God only knows what..to understand. But since we're not consulted about these matters, the heck with the administration. We don't like the way he's neglected the borders, shipped every job possible overseas, dismantled the manufacturing base...among others, and now this. He's made deals with Fox and the rest of the hemisphere, that's pretty clear. The CFR, one Happy hemisphere, trusted travelers, etc.. Anyone with a lick of sense should have known that once poor folk arrived from below the border, they wouldn't go home. Period. (Including terrorists.)
>>This is the FIRST thing important enough, for him to use
threat of veto?
>>In over 5 years?
Apparently. And that's the disconcerting part of the whole thing. For someone who has not made use of vetos, why is Bush threatening a veto over this??
What is so critical about this deal that it worth threatening a veto over?
I'm not trying to carry water for the President, but aren't we going a little over the top on this? What high crime or misdemeanor did he commit?
He's doing it because he's sweet talked the Arab Emirates into an Alice in Wonderland state of mind where we pretend that one of the 9/11 hi-jackers didn't come from the Emirates, that they love us and will cooperate like crazy with us in the war against terror. Uh huh. What happens when we lower the boom on Iran....for instance? Will it be all sweetness and light in the Arab street? Probably not.
Was the flight school that trained the highjackers to fly into the WTC and the Pentagon owned by interests in the Middle East? Oh...it was owned by an American? I guess that means we should close all flight schools owned by Americans. After all all the highjackers were trained at a flight school owned by an American. /s
Did you know that all the billions of dollars we send to China, because we buy loads of cheap crap from China, is used to finance the build up of their military? We know that their military build up represents a real threat to the interests of the United States. Therefore, if we adopt the "logic" of the critics of this port deal, we should cut off all trade with China.
Really?...Li Ka-Shing ring a bell?...
The Constitution: If they didn't want it to be read, they wouldn't have written it down.
>>That Bush stood up for the Arab when the rest of the
>>politicians in the country didn't. Not bad, not bad at all.
>>Just might work....
Maybe.
You might have the right of it.
But I still think its like trying to make nice with a piranha
>>So I guess we should let the Saudi's run airports so long as TSA is by the medal detectors?
Heck why stop there.
We can fire all the pilots and outsource their jobs to the Pakis./sarc
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