Comments on: Your feelings on the UAE port deal

By: John G.

John G. — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:54:18 +0000

I have never been so embarrassed by the Political sabotage done by the media-political machine in our country! I am currently serving Iraq and can tell you that the UAE has been a GREAT ally to the U.S. The UAE port management deal was good for the U.S. in many ways. Most importantly, it helps distinguish the Middle Eastern Countries which are clearly on our side in the fight against radical terrorists. By striking down this deal we now told our friends in the region that it doesn’t matter if they are with or against us, as we will treat all of them the same. If you use the argument that the UAE had peripheral involvement in the actions of the 9/11 terrorists, then we might as well stop doing business with the State of Virginia, Nevada, and Florida as well. I we all take time to learn the facts about issues before Americaonce again gets hood-winked by fear and sensationalism.

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By: Amber

Amber — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:46:11 +0000

More on the Port Controversy

Some analysis from “the Counterintelligence Blog.”
This debate will likely heat up as both Democrats and Republicans at all levels of government seem to be lining up against the White House stance. It may be true that DPW will not be direct…

By: Bandar Bush

Bandar Bush — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 01:56:15 +0000

It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. He takes up the trade of a priest for the sake of gain, and in order to qualify himself for that trade, he begins with a perjury. Can we conceive any thing more destructive to morality than this?

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By: Amber

Amber — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:32:41 +0000

More on the Port Controversy

By: kevin

kevin — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 04:23:33 +0000

Has anyone even considered the fact that it’s immoral to do business with the Emirates? Recognition of the Taliban should gives us pause.

By: Amber

Amber — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 03:41:55 +0000

More on the Port Controversy

SomeÂ analysis from “the Counterintelligence Blog.”
This debate will likely heat up as both Democrats and Republicans at all levels of government seem to be lining up against the White House stance. It may be true that DPW will not be direc…

By: sanity

sanity — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:52:11 +0000

(D) Senator Levin from Michigan today said that the deal is illegal if not given a 45 day congressional review.

After this was said, if I understand correctly, President Bush agreed to delay it a short time.

On a side note, it would really be interesting to see how the left and right stack up. Who from both sides of the sphere are for it and who are not.

I think that would be interesting to see.

By: karl

karl — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:32:03 +0000

ST,

I have mostly come to the same conclusiont today hearing all the details finally.

I can see nothing about their ownership that is effectively different then the other foreign compaines running ports. Security concerns are misguided because the port security management is not waffected in any measureable way.

What this is is xenophobia, is islamophobia.

By the way this deal was proposed in October, and ratified in December, and no one cared. It became an issue because of a Florida company involved in the deal and (I think) invvloved in a labor dispute whined to local media and got that states legislatures in an uproar.

There is only one issue that I think needsto be confirmed, and that is the accusation that a mandatory 45 day congressional review was bypassed. If that is true, then abide by the law. If that is not true, then this is much ado over nuthing.

By: The Bodie Specter

The Bodie Specter — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 06:00:35 +0000

Let’s Make A Deal

Several people that I trust, including Mansoor Ijaz, Rich Galen and even General Tommy Franks have now come forward to endorse this deal. The UAE has been our ally in the War on Terror. And let’s face it… We need all the friends we can get right no…

By: steve

steve — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:23:05 +0000

And the rest of the Right is confused as to just who the terrorist are. Could the neo-con, armageddonists please publish a score card so innocent people are not spied on and then sent off to fight another illegal war somewhere? Peace

By: Bandar Bush

Bandar Bush — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:03:54 +0000

forest hunter you are correct about the left chasing every little thing that happens. However the left doesn’t go around talking about arabs being our friends. They talk about treating individual people as people. Even Micheal Moore was talking about the dark ties between the bush family and the Saudis…remember the Saudis …the ones that attacked us on 911. The left has not been saying America is bad …they have been saying Bush and family are bad. This part is true. Bush and family should not even be called republicans. They have dirty deals with people that hate America. A worm has crawled into the republican brain and that worm is called Bush.

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By: The Blue State Conservatives

The Blue State Conservatives — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:06:30 +0000

The Port-UAE mess

While on the surface this sounds like a bad nightmare I’ve put some more thought into it as more facts have come out. The line used to describe this story is the “United Arab Emirates is taking over our ports.”…

By: forest hunter

forest hunter — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 02:45:54 +0000

I’m still waiting to hear from the PHD packing Economists out there behind a key board to weigh in.

It is not about Islamophobia! Those with an understanding of history, typically have conservative views which leads to having concerns, reasons, fears and most importantly logic. The PC police have no business in this or for that matter most places. (if respect is a practiced pattern and lifestyle). The most striking thing in all of this for me is that so many of the dhimmi’s are on the same page as most of the reasonable and responsible people commenting here.

John Gambling (I think) asks Ann Compton about the port deal and she KNOWS NOTHING about it whatsoever! The nattering ninnies are chompin’ at the bit so bad they miss a major, let me re-phrase, an Actual Real Major (ARM) story because they’re so fixated on the VP. Priority is not news, it’s bash and slash and business as usual, till the waiter drops the drinks! Now like a herd of sheep they plow over each other to “Get the Story” out. What a difference a day makes, eh. The lefty loons run off helter-skelter, abandoning Mr. Cheney’s and their non-starter story of him filling his tag. Dick says BANG and the choir sings AAAAAAHHH!!! There’s your new conspiracy to chew on, for the mad dogs on the left. Keep your eyes on ARM’s and leave the magic to the magicians.

Suddenly, now the Arabs are not our friends as they were the day before. Overnight, they’ve seen the light, but not the err of their ways. Presidents Carter and Clinton, combined with the Al’s shows are running around fanning the flames of the evil America. Now what will become of all this pandering to the poor Islamofascists, I wonder.

This shameless display of the all too typical opaque hypocrisies from the MSM, the democratic leaders and lefty loons should spell out enough reasons to explain why their incapable of responsible leadership.