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

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

[Nowhere Man]

Nowhere Man to UAE: "If you feel that way about it, don't let the screen door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya!"

[SunStar]

Instead of servicing Navy ships in the UAE, maybe they can have the work done in Guam. Hey, what's a month of travel downtime... it's not like we're fighting a war or anything. This ex-Navy guy is pissed at the port-blockers.

What about Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, India, Diego Garcia, etc.

This is about whether an Arab kingdom will control U.S. national security interests. And the answer is "no", even if the President disagrees. This is why we don't live in a dictatorship. The people have spoken, through our House of Representatives. It's a good day for our sovereignty!

[P-Marlowe]

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Newton.

[Jhohanna]

I've discover lots of tings about my family posting on the internet that mom and dad never told me .CARTMAN

Yeah, well... you know. She was young and needed the money

.KYLE

Cartman, it was just last month!??!

/end really bad attempt at South Park humour.

[gondramB]

:Nowhere Man to UAE: "If you feel that way about it, don't let the screen door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya!":

So where do suppose we'll get the $20 billion to replace what they spend here?

[SunStar]

Did you not read the d*mn article?! They are an ally!

Really? Are their leaders elected democratically? Do they have freedom and equal rights for all their citizens? Do they allow women to control their own destiny? Do they have freedom of speech?

Think about it.

[onyx]

This is about whether an Arab kingdom will control U.S. national security interests.

This HAS NEVER BEEN about whether an Arab kingdom will control U.S. national security interests.

[Solson]

This is becoming pretty darn close to StormFront and isn't a minority view of the very vocal anti-immigration folks on this site.

We do need to fight and disassociate but it's tough when those same folks start the fervor on the subject like the port deal.

[KJC1]

You are correct. This is what is happening, and the party will now lose to the moderates. You will not be able to win the elections and you will now lose what we so carefully and patiently achieved.

So true. Just like we watched the far left obliterate the Dem Party and make them utterly unappealing to the mainstream, the same will prove true for Republicans but only if we don't heed that lesson.

[SunStar]

Every businessman who has been similarly shafted has threatened retaliation in some form. I don't blame the UAE in any way and would do the same.

Let them threaten all they want. The American people were right to disagree with a sheikhdom-owned counrty operating U.S. national security interests. And our House was right to speak for us.

[WatchingInAmazement]

And there will be NO meaningful immigration legislation -- why, you ask? Because the public doesn't want it. See how that works?

The latest poll by Quinnipiac University found that 88 percent of those asked think illegal immigration is a serious problem. Put another way, 94 percent of Republicans and 86 percent of Democrats see illegal immigration as a serious issue .

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/06/ldt.01.html Aired Mar. 6, 2006

[Flux Capacitor]

The rule is that you're supposed to "ping" any poster you might be referencing in a message to another poster. (This condition is especially popular among FR's Official Sewing Circle, which tends to demand "courtesies" it's rarely willing to extend to others.)

Sometimes, gosh darn it, I just forget to do that. ;)

-Dan

[Willie Green]

"No right [should] be stipulated for aliens to hold real property within these States, this being utterly inadmissible by their several laws and policy."

--Thomas Jefferson: Commercial Treaties Instructions, 1784.

[Solson]

This has NOTHING to do with "whether an Arab kingdom will control U.S. national security interests."

THAT, is a blatant and total misrepresentation of this port deal.

[jveritas]

I am glad that you "people" (despise intended) are only a small minority and have been kicked out of the Republican Party long time ago. If your ilks were to control the party we would have lost all elections.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

I called you out on a big lie, you respond with something unrelated to the lie as if it were relevant.

I honestly do not know what "lie" you refer to. I did not make a claim that DPW would make an immediate operational change. I did claim that ownership, even seven layers removed, implies control in business. Yes, decisions get made seven layers up that DO cost jobs. If you are going to accuse me of a lie, please be specific. I am just guessing here.

[ThePythonicCow]

Ohio - we're seeing a deep confusion over what's right and wrong, over what we're fighting for and against.

The human species is deadly lot. Fanatics through history have been the source of immense cruelty, death and destruction. The religion of Islam has had more than its share of such, for over 13 centuries now, with unceasing Jihad against us heathens. The fanatics of western civilization, such as communists and Nazis, have been doing their best over the last century or two to catch up however.

The useful idiots in the press, the media, the university and political office have continued to confuse matters no end. This confusion has dealt a grave blow to W's efforts from 9/11 and before. Islam has been raging jihad against us for decades now in this latest round, fueled by oil money, and we have yet to stand up to it with the national clarity such as Churchill displayed against Hitler, or Reagan against the Soviet Union.

At least Bush is standing up, but he still calls Islam the religion of peace. The media and press still go out of their way to downplay continued acts of violence against America, on our own soil and abroad, while exaggerating the violence and disregarding the motivation for any acts of war America commits in response.

Great wars are not won until great clarity of purpose is found.

We aren't there yet.

I feel like I am reading a great novel, and I'm in but the early Chapters. For some strange reason, I cannot skip ahead and see how it comes out. I can only keep reading, and doing my part, for we are each small characters in this story. But I know that many more chapters remain. I can feel the heft of this story in my hands. No doubt I will be deceased before the final chapter. May my descendents live in freedom as I have.

[Borax Queen]

(This condition is especially popular among FR's Official Sewing Circle, which tends to demand "courtesies" it's rarely willing to extend to others.)

OK, then, that explains a lot of what I've seen today.

[Howlin]

I didn't say it wasn't a serious problem.

I said there will be no meaningful legislation.

[SunStar]

They opened their country to our men and women in uniform, but we are petty, I guess.

Petty enough not to let a kingdom run by fiat to be placed in control of U.S. ports? Fine by me.