Posted on 03/09/2006 9:02:17 AM PST by prairiebreeze
But Rush told us Dubai changed after 9/11... Once a snake, always a snake.
Yup. I told my husband last night I couldn't imagine a worse thing happening to us in the WOT than this. Aside from a direct hit from a nuclear attack, that is. And now the UAE's help with watching Iran is in question.
In that they agreed to an American middle-company to buffer the UAE contract with the public or the deal is toast completely??
I have followed the deal, pros and cons, and am still against it. They can threaten us all they want. They would sooner or later anyway in one way or another. That's one reason I was not comfortable with the deal but not the only one.
As things stood, they gained as much as we did. If they want to play hardball, let them. We need to extricate ourselves from having to deal with them if at all possible.
LOL
Myopic ignorance must be blissful!
I'll just have to take your word for it.
Just one big happy family...ain't life grand!
I think there some who believe that. They think these threats of retaliation will change minds of those who oppose this "dead deal".
NO! It's the DPW that's saying that, NOT the UAE.
The news is DPW will divest itself of interest in US ports.
Hardball. Just crossing the wires: Dubai Ports says it will sell the US components ports portion to another investor. An American company. Can you say Halliburton. Sure, I knew you could.
Maybe because our veto of their business deal would torpedo a vital strategic partnership in our war on terror, ya think?
Rush discussing this now....
Halliburton? "ram this right down Chuck Shumer's throat"
But The Friends of Dubai told us there weren't any American companies that could handle the job?
What changed in the past few weeks?
I hope we weren't being lied to...
I'm thinking this is what Rush meant to say because I don't see any news anywhere else that Dubai Ports will selloff their American investments.
The war on terror had a "win hearts and minds " component. We can not kill 1.5 Billion Muslims as much as some here would love to.
If we back-stab our ME allies on this..Israel is toast.
I think they won't in the end do that. But I understand them saying so. The house subcommittee just passed a measure saying that UAE, among all the world, was singularly unqualified to be a partner with us in any way.
So why shouldn't they take the hint and cut off all their partnerships?
In the senate, Schumer is getting support for a measure that says that NO country which ever recognized the Taliban can ever again own ANYTHING U.S.. Of course he doesn't mean U.S. airplanes, but why shouldn't UAE take him at his word and promise to stop buying ANY american products or services?
I still believe that cooler heads will prevail (we might have to dunk some republican heads into the toilet to cool them off) and DP World will set up their U.S. subsidiaries as semi-autonymous entities to handle the terminal leases.
Or the DP World might just promise to sell of the U.S. companies.
I think the democrats are SCARED TO DEATH of that, and that is why they are pushing to cut off debate and end this now. I think the republicans are stupidly going along, maybe in the hopes that nobody will fault them and the president will save them by vetoing the bill and then they can compromise.
The UAE thought they had a deal, when by U.S. law the U.S. told them the deal was acceptable. But when pressed, the UAE gave us another 45 days, with the idea that we would all sit back and look it over carefully before taking action.
But the House just said screw the 45 days, we're going to preempt the deal now.
Yea...We should still be fighting Japan
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