Posted on 03/09/2006 9:02:17 AM PST by prairiebreeze
That's what you think, but I think he was tired of living and wanted to go out with dignity.
Wait let me guess: You are now employing the slippery slope fallacy into your argument.
Ad hominem
Slippery slope
etc.
etc.
Bottom line, the deal is dead. And the GOP leadership may have saved the majorities in the House and Senate.
The only "national security ramification" is that you're ready to kow-tow to the United Arab Emirates because you're afraid to, God forbid, disagree with the President.
Disagreeing with the President does not mean people want to destroy him.
"........and they don't seem to care if the security of the country goes down with it."
And UAE makes us safer? Whistle, graveyard, and all that...
You are a hopeless case, once I thought you might have a conservative thought or two, but no. Rats oppose just about every thing Bush does for no reason. They live to oppose Bush. Conservatives oppose Bush when his policies are not conservative. See the diference? Think real hard you can get it if you try.
In your dreams, pal.
And if that would happen, you'll lose ALL the other voters except the far right.
Now, remind me, what's the LAST election the far right won by itself?
Actually, I was doubled up so far in deep belly laughter that I plum lost sight of apprising the world of that fact!
The good news is that the GOP in the House and Senate will approve this compromise and won't put this to a vote. Now you'll see the Dems go nuts that there won't be a vote.
This is just closet racism/religious bigotry/painting em all with one big brush. That's it...nothing more.
And...instead of winning the political battle by calling it just that, Many GOP'ers have fallen in line BEHIND SCHUMER, CLINTON and REID and are THRILLLED to be doing so.
I have no problem dealing with problematic allies, even those that don't have the same values as us, or other members of the free world.
What I do have a problem with is compromising our security in order to grease the wheels for diplomacy.
Can you say Visa Express?
That's one of the reasons-if not the chief one-that the Twin Towers no longer stand in my city, and why over 2,600 Americans are now deceased.
Short-term political gains are not worth sacrificing our long-term interests, and there is no compelling reason to go through with this deal.
The UAE already has extensive ties to the United States in the economic realm, and our relationship is not going to go to seed simply because they did not get their way on this.
If it does, then it simply illustrates how unreliable our Arab "allies" are.
No kiddin'? That was my point. Other than that brain fart I agree with you.
Very well put!
You people really irritate me.....
I gotta log off this putz palace and try to get my blood pressure back under control.......
I am probably more insulted than the UAE....I have kids and Grandkids that will have to live with this nonsense, and I fear for their future.
Now, now; you know they will be thrilled; they are POSITIVE that, once they turn the GOP out for a few terms, we ALL will join them in putting "real, true" conservatives into office, doncha know?
"I just heard Warner's reading. DP World seems to predicate the deal on getting as much out of the sale as they put in for the U.S. assets."
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After they get out of this part of the deal, how long till they reevaluate their other investments and quietly start selling them off?
Not nearly enough-especially the abominable United States Senate-but much more in terms of enforcement than any of the proposals George W. Bush has ever entertained.
Great Post....I was on another thread earlier today...before we hear about this deal..and said that I had a feeling that all of these people who are trying to stick it to Bush (who is NOT running again)...
Both Dems and GOP....are gonna find out, hopefully, in November how their knee-jerkitis is gonna hurt THEM!!!
We need to make a list and keep it....about who has made a fool of him/herself on the GOP side.
Sorry, it was indeed a brain fart under duress.....:-)
I disagree with you, but that was funny.
Isreal, Afghanistan and India are not arab countries. India is not even a ME country. Do you even read before responding?
I see; asking you a flat out question is now characterized as "slipper slope."
Ignorant.
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