Posted on 03/09/2006 9:02:17 AM PST by prairiebreeze
I am. Screw the UAE. Let them wrap themselves in dirty sheets and pretend that they are on our side. Get out of our country. Go Michael Savage, who is the real hero in this victory!!
Mexicans. And Nagin is NOT happy about that problem in his Chocolate City.
He does not want them to stay.
Oh, please! How lame. His post was clearly about what it was to the opposers of the "ports deal." The Dims and RINOs.
Thank you, UGLY American.
And why 6.8 billion dollars?
This was never about port security...it was about a business dispute some Dems had with P&O down in Miami, and they didnt want to deal with the UAE to settle it.
And yet you all will deny this is about Arabs?
" On paper the shipment was harmless enough. Sixty-six American-made spark gaps--high-speed electrical switches used in medical devices to break up kidney stones--traveled from the manufacturer in Salem, Mass. late last summer to a buyer in Secaucus, N.J. From there, according to the export declaration, they were to be shipped to their ultimate destination in Cape Town, South Africa. But these spark gaps can also be used to detonate nuclear bombs--and it turned out that the goods were aimed at an end user in Pakistan, with a stopover in Dubai. The commercial capital of the United Arab Emirates, where trading activity accounts for the biggest single chunk (16.5%) of a $20 billion economy, has become a favorite diversion point on the Persian Gulf for shady cargo. With no export controls and hardly any bureaucracy at ports, airports and free zones, this entrepôt provides stellar cover for smugglers hoping to bypass U.S. embargoes...
Still don't believe it ? Go to Forbes and read the entire article.
LOL Darn good thing someone is informing Congress of something! We need a Senate investigation to find out how Bush kept these foreign airlines in the US a secret.
Put down the waterpipe.
"I knew there was something there that I liked ; )"
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Thank you that is kind of you to say.
I wish people hadn't let their fear run away with them. The U.A.E. could be a good ally.
I am very honest about mine. I don't trust Arabs, and have yet in my life to meet an honest one. I live in NYC metro area and have had enough Islam garbage for 200000 lifetimes.
It was all about a business deal between P&O and DPW, of which 6 operations are US based. Our troops were never threatened. There has been speculation along the lines of "what if divestiture offends Dubai and they blah blah".
Then according to your standards you are stupid too, because you are failing to understand "temporary convergences of interest."
Your point is meaningless.
The UAE Emirs didn't choose who would fly planes into the WTC. OBL made that choice.
And OBL had Al Qaeda from all the Arab countries to choose from including Afghanistan and Iraq.
OBL specifically chose Saudi and UAE nationals. He did so because both countries had ties to the U.S. and both countries were part of the holy Arabian peninsula, a place where he was kicked out of.
You have demonstrated complete ignorance on the subject.
You are welcome. I will continue my attacks at the UAE, along with Michael Savage. We will run the people wearing dirty sheets out of Dodge! We won! Ha!! You lost Ha!! Maybe you should post At DU?? I mean, are you a REAL American?
I never said that their weren't weapons components smuggled through Dubai Port. I've already have links out the wazoo documenting that.
What I did say was I wanted to see evidence that the UAE didn't cooperate with the investigations and seizures of said weapons.
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