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Tommy Franks Defends Dubai Ports Deal
Newsmax ^ | 2/22/06 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 02/23/2006 12:00:42 AM PST by Dane

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To: Dane
Maybe you should do some research, Dubai is not Yemen.

Maybe you should. If we simply just reject the deal, business is business--no hard feelings, we're told all hell will break loose.

Well that is not the sign of a real friend.

And by all such indications, they are still an "emirate" and could turn on a dime. They likely are not so different from Yemen.

Better safe than sorry.

The panic in the General's response implies we are relying on a powder keg...and the fuse is lit.

301 posted on 02/23/2006 2:29:39 PM PST by Paul Ross (Hitting bullets with bullets successfully for 35 years!)
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To: farmer18th
"Translation: "Shut up, homeland. I got some boys in ships ovah theah."

I like your take. If there's anything that W sees clearly, it's that we can't win the WOT without having countries on our side in the Middle East. In fact, it's his entire long term strategy, to change the complexion of the Middle East. The UAE, while flawed, is allowing us to use their land in the war effort and is generally supportive of it; let's not gratuitously make them an enemy.

There's nothing the Democrats would like better than a hard slap to the face of an American ally.

302 posted on 02/23/2006 2:31:40 PM PST by Sam Cree (absolute reality) - ("Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert Einstein)
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To: Sam Cree

You can extend your comments further. The DoD recognizes DP World as extremely efficient at what they do and in their support of the U.S. Navy.


303 posted on 02/23/2006 2:34:00 PM PST by CWOJackson (Tancredo? Wasn't he the bounty hunter in Star Wars?)
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To: Darkwolf377
LOL! Sheesh, every new piece of background on this makes me glad i changed my mind about an hour or two after first being against this

I'm with you man. But it took me a couple of days for the haze to clear.

304 posted on 02/23/2006 3:03:36 PM PST by Lekker 1 ("Computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes..." - Popular Mechanics, March 1949)
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To: Sam Cree
There's nothing the Democrats would like better than a hard slap to the face of an American ally.

Yep...and a completely centralized, Gov't-controlled business world. All jobs Civil Service...all management GS-99s. Salaries determined by the Committee On Relative Worth (who decide, of course, that the highest salaries go to members of the Committee On Relative Worth!). Even the breasts at KFC served through a Gov't Jobs Program where employees learn 'after 1 month you cease to be servants & after 6 months you cease to be civil...everyone in the Back Room, calculating their pensions...

305 posted on 02/23/2006 3:03:45 PM PST by O Neill (Aye, Katie Scarlett, the ONLY thing that lasts is the land...)
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To: ajolympian2004
...free market conservatives.

I guess the only fly in the ointment that I am having a hard time getting past is the fact that it is a government-owned company...in essence a company with its own money printing presses. The free market model falls apart.

306 posted on 02/23/2006 3:05:43 PM PST by Lekker 1 ("Computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes..." - Popular Mechanics, March 1949)
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To: Lekker 1

Those of us who've seen the light have to stick together until the others calm down... I'm starting to feel like the main character in Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery".


307 posted on 02/23/2006 3:11:20 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (No respect for conservatives? That's free speech. No respect for liberals? That's hate speech.)
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To: milemark

Exactly! What do FReepers think retired Generals do in their 'next' life.
The same thing ex-congresscritters & ex-presidents do...
$$$


308 posted on 02/23/2006 3:34:53 PM PST by meema (I am a Conservative Traditional Republican, NOT an elitist, sexist , cynic or right wing extremist!)
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To: Lekker 1

That's the one problem I have too, but again, what's the alternative?


309 posted on 02/23/2006 3:35:29 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Dane

How about you think for yourself first, rather than blindly trust the government?

Even if the Arab owned company is the best available choice of who ever was bidding, it is somewhat important that it's vetted with the people who back this administration. In other words, pursuing the "right" outcome isn't enough. The move needs support to be credible, and I have to wonder if the average Republican voter has let this pass the basic smell test.


310 posted on 02/23/2006 3:40:51 PM PST by Frank T
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To: Frank T
How about you think for yourself first, rather than blindly trust the government?

Even if the Arab owned company is the best available choice of who ever was bidding, it is somewhat important that it's vetted with the people who back this administration. In other words, pursuing the "right" outcome isn't enough. The move needs support to be credible, and I have to wonder if the average Republican voter has let this pass the basic smell test

If you had done your own research and not relied on savage(weiner)/schumer talking points, you would have seen it was vetted.

You can trust savage/schumer, I'll trust Bush/Franks.

311 posted on 02/23/2006 3:44:26 PM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: Echo Talon

"Why is Condi for it also?"

Because she was hired for her job by Bush?

Team Bush values loyalty over other characteristics, such as principle.


312 posted on 02/23/2006 3:48:19 PM PST by Frank T
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To: Echo Talon

"I'd vote for that."

Without knowing what type of people they'd put on the Supreme court, when openings come up?


313 posted on 02/23/2006 3:51:29 PM PST by Frank T
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To: Dane

What happens when the Shumers of the world, like a stopped clock, are occasionally right? Do we then, in reaction, choose the opposite position, even if it's actually the wrong one in the given case?


314 posted on 02/23/2006 3:53:27 PM PST by Frank T
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To: Frank T

Yes, Shumer with his indepth personal knowledge is right, while General Franks, who has never left the safety of his office and has no knowledge whatsoever of the UAE is wrong.


315 posted on 02/23/2006 3:56:26 PM PST by CWOJackson
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To: Dane

Who gives a rat's patootie what Tommy Franks thinks in this matter. Another example of American jobs going overseas.


316 posted on 02/23/2006 3:57:31 PM PST by Ciexyz (Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
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To: Ciexyz
Who gives a rat's patootie what Tommy Franks thinks in this matter. Another example of American jobs going overseas

Really? All the containers will be unloaded in the UAE and Star Trek beam transported to the US.

317 posted on 02/23/2006 4:00:27 PM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: Ciexyz; Torie
Who gives a rat's patootie what Tommy Franks thinks in this matter.

Well, I do for one. Interesting that Franks answers one of my questions on the benefit side the same day I pose it. Franks knows much more than he is saying of course.

318 posted on 02/23/2006 4:01:02 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Ciexyz
Another example of American jobs going overseas.

Or...humping freight on Baltimore docks has gone the way of picking lettuce in California's Central Valley. None of the students at UC-Santa Barbara are willing to spend their Summer Vacations doing such drudgery anymore...

Instead, they go surfing in Aruba...

319 posted on 02/23/2006 4:27:54 PM PST by O Neill (Aye, Katie Scarlett, the ONLY thing that lasts is the land...)
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To: Frank T

Tommie and Rice would but far better judges on the court than Hillary. And besides that isnt the only issue to me.


320 posted on 02/23/2006 5:19:20 PM PST by Echo Talon
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