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Port Whine: Why Republicans should stop their bickering about the Dubai debacle.
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| February 22, 2005
| John Dickerson
Posted on 02/22/2006 5:41:07 PM PST by quidnunc
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:41:10 PM PST
by
quidnunc
To: quidnunc
Minor compared to the Harriet Myers selection.
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:42:40 PM PST
by
pissant
To: quidnunc
Bush will be irritated. Second term Presidents always are when their authority starts to ebb.
In concrete terms, this deal doesn't threaten American physical security at all. But the optics are pretty bad.
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:43:43 PM PST
by
Vicomte13
(La Reine est gracieuse, mais elle n'est pas gratuite.)
To: quidnunc
"The squabble will also irritate the president. He's tired of congressional second-guessingespecially in a case like this where GOP leaders willfully refuse to acknowledge the complexity of global diplomacy and the value of global capitalism." What arrogance. Second guessing? Isn't that the intent of our Constitution and its balance of powers principle? Bush has blown it on this one.
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:44:53 PM PST
by
Cornpone
(Who Dares Wins -- Defame Islam Today -- Tell the Truth About Mohammed)
To: quidnunc
Does this mean that Republicans rubber stamp everything Bush says and does, regardless of merit?
The President is mistaken on this issue.
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:45:24 PM PST
by
Clintonfatigued
(Bob Taft for Impeachment)
To: quidnunc
By pouncing on this issue so quickly and joining Democrats like Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton, Republican leaders send a global message: They don't trust Bush. Thats a tough one. Frist, Schumer and Clinton versus Bush and Carter? I'm going to need a coin, I'm too confused.
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:45:56 PM PST
by
King Moonracer
(All your exploding-head-deities are belong to us!)
To: Vicomte13
In concrete terms, this deal doesn't threaten American physical security at all. But the optics are pretty bad Bingo. He let the dems set the tempo on this one. He knew that the dems have been hard up to federalize the ports. They should have seen this one coming.
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:47:54 PM PST
by
bad company
("Any damned fool can write a plan. It's the execution that gets you all screwed up." - James F. Hol.)
To: Clintonfatigued
If Dubia Worl Port doesn't take over the day to day operations, then who will?
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:48:53 PM PST
by
Nasty McPhilthy
(Those who beat their swords into plow shears….will plow for those who don’t.)
To: Vicomte13
Someone should ask Bush if he would like the Arabs to take over his personal security detail - see if the Secret Service would like to turn over their weapons to the Moos - good enough for all of us, good enough for him.
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:49:56 PM PST
by
Luker
To: quidnunc
it is positively amazing to read the belligerant rants of all the FReepers who have suddenly jumped in the bed of the "one whose name must not be mentioned". After all the Whitewater crap, there they are, in her bed doing only God knows what.
I hope they don't catch something. I hope that if they do it isn't contagious.
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:50:46 PM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. Slay Pinch)
To: Vicomte13
In concrete terms, this deal doesn't threaten American physical security at all. I would agree with you if Dubai Ports World was a private company. But I think Neal Boortz has it right this time that the United States has never been attacked by a private company.
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:50:58 PM PST
by
Ben Mugged
(labor unions are socialism's shock troops)
To: Nasty McPhilthy
There is no way that Dubia Worl Port is the only company which can do this. What's so unreasonable about an American company performing this function?
To: Clintonfatigued
Please, didn't you get the memo; you must be assimulated. The Republican party will no longer tolerate any opinion that is contrary to that of his Highness George W Bush.
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:54:33 PM PST
by
ARCADIA
(Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
To: Nasty McPhilthy
"If Dubia Worl Port doesn't take over the day to day operations, then who will?" ****
To: quidnunc
>>>>Republicans can't distance themselves from Bush on security issues.Wrong! Republicans have distanced themselves from PresBush on this issue and rightfully so. On this issue Bush is deadwrong.
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:54:57 PM PST
by
Reagan Man
(Secure our borders;punish employers who hire illegals;stop all welfare to illegals)
To: quidnunc
Basically at the end of the day the argument comes down to this by the anti port people. NO Arabs Period- Dont LIke Muslims there crazy-
I have seen people all day on these threads say "hey the more I learned the more comfortable I was with this"
The President has the gosh darn common sense to know the Forign policy disaster if he renigged on this deal because there "arab". Folks the world moved on. the arabs own alot including a bit of our national debt. We have a future engagement with Iran in our future. I really cant expect UAE to put their people in danger and all those pretty new buildings as well as their ports To IRanian missiles if we treat them like a common prositiute. LOng term and Short term because the Dems and Republicans have made this a "race" issue and "religion" issue the President will have to veto it. IN fact in some tiny way the anti arab and anti Islamic rants have forced him to do that since the whole world is watching.
To: King Moonracer
Thats a tough one. Frist, Schumer and Clinton versus Bush and Carter? I'm going to need a coin, I'm too confused.New York Times against it, Wall St. Journal for it. ;)
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:57:01 PM PST
by
Darkwolf377
(Dubai-u's fault--The Port Non-Issue is Hillary's Sistah Soulja moment)
To: ARCADIA
Please, didn't you get the memo; you must be assimulated. The Republican party will no longer tolerate any opinion that is contrary to that of his Highness George W Bush.Yeah, because obviously NO Republican is against this, NO Republican commentators...and ONLY 95% of FR.
Please, be against the deal if you like but spare us the victim pose when you all are the ones following the MSM herd on this one.
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:58:53 PM PST
by
Darkwolf377
(Dubai-u's fault--The Port Non-Issue is Hillary's Sistah Soulja moment)
To: quidnunc
The politicos, pundits and the MSM are spouting off opinions, not based on fact or knowledge of the deal in question, and in the bigger picture, shipping operations, port operations, port and cargo security. Second, they know little or nothing about the company in question, other than the location of its headquarters.
They would be surprised to learn that the company in question works and has a longstanding relationship with Israeli shipping interests and handles a good portion of their operations. Second, the company is the front line cargo transit operator for our military in the region, that is responsible for cargo and supplies heading to and from our troops in the field. The UAE has served as both an operation center and is complete with air facilities, port facilities and numerous mini bases from which our military operates command and control functions and work integrally with our intelligence units located there. They supply minor repairs, fuel and supplies for our naval assets in the region and other support functions, water, mail, sewage, lightering, harbor services,etc.
These port related functions provided to our military in particular the Navy are provided by this company. They work closely with them and are a important link in the logistic operations in the region.
Last, terminal operators and cargo handlers, are not responsible for port security, cargo security, cargo inspections and other security related procedures, operations. Ultimately these functions fall on the Port Authority, Port Police, USDA, Customs Service, INS and the U.S.C.G.
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:59:13 PM PST
by
FFIGHTER
(Character Matters!)
To: quidnunc
Republican leaders send a global message: They don't trust Bush. Cool, I don't trust the doubletalking, backstabbing little weasel either.
Heck, he's already responsible for sinking us over $2 Trillion deeper in debt.
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