Dubai threat to hit back (UAE Threatens Against Boeing and US Bases Support)

The Hill.com ^ | March 9, 2006 | Roxana Tiron

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

The only people to blame for a Dem. tsunami are the Republicans.

However, I don't think that American voters are going to punish congressmen who actually stood up for this country.

If so, then it'll probably be because the Republican Party has become inescapably tied to-almost synonymous with, in some cases-the Bush administration over the past five years.

A huge mistake, in my opinion.

[TigersEye]

Well, news is coming out now that the UAE will sell its interests to an American entity.

Actually the UAE did not specify an American entity. They simply said the American portion of the deal would be divested to 'another party.' You may have read otherwise in an AP report or heard it on ABCNNCBS or somthing but it ain't true.

[Howlin]

Oh, geez, I'm sooooooooooooo worried about what you think.

[Flux Capacitor]

----Watching the GOP trying to out-Dim the Dims while shooting our strategic alliances in the foot is pretty sad. Though not my custom, I have to give Bush full credit here for trying to save a vital strategic and military interest over the congressional lynch mob.----

Imagine my surprise to find a poster named "George W. Bush" backing George W. Bush on this, and assuming all of the mindless intellectual contortions and outright attacks on the American people themselves that come with doing so. Almost as shocking as posters with "W Fan" in their usernames going to bat for him. ;)

So much for the conservative movement being one of ideas and not men.

-Dan

[justshutupandtakeit]

Stupidity and cowardice are not limited to the Party of Treason.

[Jhohanna]

They shut down the ring and better enforced their existing law against it. Apparently we were satisfied with the results. Yes, I do know what they do to camel jockeys.

Yah... right. K. Just like Iran wasn't doing nuclear enrichment down south. You expect me to believe these monsters? That rape for power? Uh, no.

And I'm sorry, but that is the mentality of the majority of Arab men. I happen to be married to someone who spent quite a bit of time over there, as well as call both an Iranian and Iraqi very close friends. They are happy their parents left when they were young, and were Christian. It's a LOT uglier over there than we will EVER disclose. Iraq is a cakewalk.

[Crawdad]

Don't go looking for something you're not going to be glad you found.

[ohioWfan]

It's actually the conservatives, as opposed to the "Bush always knows best"-types who raised the uproar over this.

You clearly weren't paying attention.

The Dems raised the ruckus first and the Republicans joined forces with them......or shall we say, tried to out-do them. The self-proclaimed 'grassroots' folks are always complaining, whining (and in this case shrieking) about everything. They have no power at all, in this, or in anything else.

[jpsb]

"You'll have to pardon me, as I have been here seven years longer than you have."

First the race card and now the newbe card LOL, you are on a roll. Got a real argument?

[ohioWfan]

Yikes. It IS kinda scary, isn't it? ;)

[FourtySeven]

The American interest will have a UAE interest? So the UAE will be selling to itself? That makes no sense.

Believe me, I'd like to believe you. I'd like to believe that despite all the hysterical maniacs both here and on Capital Hill, the deal will go through anyway and the UAE will get what it wants. I just don't see how that's going to happen. At least not today.

What I can't understand is, to this day, why people are so convinced that the UAE is some terrorist state? I just saw a program on the National Geographic Channel last night about how Dubai is building a huge artificial island, and it's purpose is to increase its beach size by 39%. It's a freaking tourist state that has no interest in being terrorist for goodness sake, or do people here think they're spending $2 BILLION on a ruse? (and note, construction of the island began BEFORE 9/11, so all these claims about Dubai "turning into a friendly state only after 9/11" are ludicrous.)

The terrorists in the ME may have a lot of money, but they don't have that much. $2 billion here, $6.8 billion there, it starts to add up after a while.

Before I log off for the day, after watching this thread for a while, I'd like to add this: I think the opposition to the port deal IS based in racism, and I'm in SUPPORT of the idea of a fence blocking our southern border!

Chew on that.

[bwteim]

"DP World has decided to transfer fully the U.S. operation of P&O Operations North America to a United States entity,"

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8G88KUO2.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down&chan=db

[justshutupandtakeit]

Yes and the insanity it released has only increased.

[teawithmisswilliams]

In case you missed it; it was the Dems (Schumer) who started this.

You missed the fact that it was the conservative grass-roots who started this. Schumer jumped on it when it became visible on the politcal radar screen.

[Peach]

Yup. They think they OWN the GOP now.

[Jhohanna]

Florida had financial institutions which aided their ability to move funds within this country and to receive funds from their terror bosses abroad.

The reason that they have these abilities is because of the large number of immigrants (legal and ILlegal) that transfer money back out of the US to their homelands. Be that the Middle East, Cuba, or Guatemala. California is the same way, but a lot more of that money is sent also to India, China, and Pakistan (H1B workers). That's why taxing and changing the international financial transaction biz is going to be so difficult, because it will affect both the illegals and LEGAL immigrants, and that's not an option.

[justshutupandtakeit]

One has to be deluded to take a Clown like that seriously.
But cults are not to be ignored.

[Jhohanna]

Yeah... isn't the race card kinda becoming like the Hitler argument?

[Star Traveler]

You said -- "I just think people are building up UAE to be indispensible, and they're simply not."

Well, maybe not indispensible -- but important.

When you design a plan that you want to carry out, and something throws a monkey-wrench into it, then it's troublesome. And many times it takes much more effort, time and money to compensate for the change in plans.

I would look at it that way. We might be able to get along without the UAE, but then it's going to be troublesome, take more effort, time and money -- to compensate for their loss in the grand plan or scheme (as it pertains to this "war on terror").

Sometimes it's a lot better to give on some smaller things in the beginning, than to go far down the wrong path and try and dig your way out -- later on.

That's how I would see it.

In any case, I think this port deal political hot potato is going to die off slowly now -- with the UAE saying that they're going to sell to an American interest. That's diffused everything, almost immediately.

Regards,
Star Traveler