THE PORT DEAL - THIS COULD BE BUSH'S FIRST VETO? HE'S JOKING, RIGHT?

Nealz Nuze ^ | 22 February 2006 | Neal Boortz

[Vaduz]

Nothing to fare but fear it salf.

[Mayflower Sister]

"The Coast Guard will still run security and the Longshoreman will be the employees. Only 5% of the
cargo currently coming in to this country are inspected now."

--And this, too, is WRONG. We had better WAKE-UP and wake-up quickly. The "religion of peace" (gag me !)wants to K-I-L-L each and every one of us.

[DBrow]

Well, that's good. I hope they have the tools to do real detailed inspection of cannisters, I'm sure they look at manifests for cargo.

[ElPatriota]

I do agree with this article a lot. When I hear that people "don't see" this or that... my conclusion is that they simply "don't want to see it."

Pre 9-11, many things like this were not issues at all.... now, you would think people would get it.

And another thing, BELIEVE ME when I tell you this, many republicans, including myself, are still mystified by the president's inaction on securing the border and Immigration in general (The big elephant in the room). His inaction on the border, in light of the fact we are having people dying in Iraq every day, in the name of ** SECURITY **... is baffling to me... how can one square this INCONSISTENCY... how?.... AND THEN, just to add for fuel to the fire... he decides to be the faithful friend to our loving, trusting friends the Saudis by letting them roam around our ports, etc, etc, etc.

So, anyone who thinks this JUST about the PORTS... think again.

[TXBSAFH]

Maybe we should.

[Echo Talon]

yep, the MSM has framed the debate again. "domestic spying" or
"hide the judge" when they talk about the Patriot act. This time its "Hide the Homeland Security, US Customs and Coast Guard"

[Raycpa]

Our side has joined the irrational emotional side on this issue.

[brainstem223]

"I just can't understand why George Bush is so invested in this idea of turning the operations at six essential U.S. ports, New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia, over to a foreign government ... and an Islamic foreign government at that."

As an aid to understanding, deals in this part of the world are invariably greased with bribery. Someone got paid off.

[Viet Vet in Augusta GA]

Neal is wrong. Not to mention violating his Libertarian principles on this one. This is a business deal, not a political deal. And it would be great if the Arab world invested a lot of money in US-based assets and facilities? Why? Because then they would have a stake in our survival and prosperity. Lots of people are wrong on this one, and I expect my share of flak, but this is the truth.

[Lemondropkid31]

I can't believe that this may be his first veto. How much harder is this going to make it for our ports to be secure? We have busted over backwards making muslims feel welcome, and now we are going to give them our ports? China having a pacific port is bad enough, but the hijackers didn't come from that country. Does China want to destroy Israel? No, but the Islamic militants do. Where did Wahabism come from? Saudi Arabia. This is amazing.

[mnehring]

Yep, like a cheap majician. I understand people's frustrations with DHS, but this is a BIG INSULT to the US Coast Guard in portraying them as useless as well.

[vernvet]

They will have a office at the port. That office will have computers. Those computers can e-maill photo's of the ports day to day operations.

It seems that many of the same people that were concerned when Presidents Carter and Clinton allowed this to happen thinks it is just fine for President Bush to allow it to happen.

Remember what the Japanese were doing prior to WWII. They were traveling our roads and picking up scrap metal and sending it back to Japan. They gave it back to us at Pearl Harbor.

This is treason.

[evets]

Sounds like a good deal to me.

I like it.

No problem here.

THIS IS CRAZY!!!

[juzcuz]

I agree assurance is just a word..

If I remember right, months ago media highlighted significant security issues at the ports. All containers are not checked. The President took an oath to "PROTECT" (twice) didn't he?

[Alberta's Child]

It's not like this was a secret deal or anything like that, either. It was publicly announced last November (which leaves me wondering why all of these morons in the media and in government have waited three months to express their concern over it), and the name of the UAE company buying out P&O Port is Dubai Ports World.

[DBrow]

"To allow any foreign government or company other than American to even maintain an office..."

The president who started that has already been impeached, but not for allowing foreign countries in our ports. P&O Steam has run the cargo facilities at those ports for some time now, and they are foreigners.

I'd like to see American companies in those ports, and running our powerplants and our big farms. We must find out why American companies are outbid, or fail to bid, on these critical infrastructure points. Is it some policy in the USA? Or simple economics?

This problem goes way beyond ports and cargo and needs to be addressed soon.

[mnehring]

Brilliant.. except you need to add MSM glasses (the ones with the cBS eyes) to old steam head..

[DC Ripper]

So may we assume you are cool with the open border policy, as well?

[nuffsenuff]

"Funny" as in "nauseous"?

[AlexW]

I have a question... Do the foreign owners have to be beholden to crooked unions, like the Longshoreman's? Something to think about.