Posted on 02/23/2006 3:37:41 PM PST by Stellar Dendrite
"Do we really need to allow this sale as a reward?"
Wha? *WE* aren't selling the shares to them, how we rewarding them jack? Their paying good money to a British company in a legal manner. It's like saying I get "rewarded" with food at a restaurant when I pay for a meal.
BTTT
May 2005: Dubai signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. to join the Megaports Initiative. Dubai will be the first government in the Middle East to participate in the scheme, which is intended to detect and seize shipments of radioactive material
President Bush must hold a record on "gates"
Nixon only had one
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=bush%2Bgate
With this port mess, I'm reminded of a few verses from the Bible regarding a port in a rich nation being blasted to nothing- while the ship captains (and their now-useless cargo) sit out int he sea-- far off-- because of the radiation.---
Revelation chapter 18-
15: The merchants of these wares, who gained wealth from her, will stand far off, in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning aloud,
16: "Alas, alas, for the great city that was clothed in fine linen, in purple and scarlet, bedecked with gold, with jewels, and with pearls!
17: In one hour all this wealth has been laid waste." And all shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off
18: and cried out as they saw the smoke of her burning, "What city was like the great city?"
19: And they threw dust on their heads, as they wept and mourned, crying out, "Alas, alas, for the great city where all who had ships at sea grew rich by her wealth! In one hour she has been laid waste.
Michelle Malkin can't spell the insanity any more for the goofballs Freepers who can't add 2+2.
UAE is neck deep into money laundering, third party fronting for hostile nations, and various other violations of trust and the ignoring of international sanctions.
For instance:
Iranian front companies in Dubai routinely obtain prohibited U.S. goods, federal court records show. In one undercover investigation by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency that resulted in a November 2005 guilty plea in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the representative of an Iranian front company was caught on tape assuring an undercover agent posing as a businessman not to worry about sanctions regulations.
Hey...where do we pick up our "JUST TRUST ME" T-shirts??
I think I've finally got you figured out.
You must be a top secret counter-counter double secret reverse counter secret agent. You seem like a feebleminded botroach pushing the agenda but you're so lame that that must be a diversion for your real mission which is pretending to be a lame botroach while actually appearing to work for the enemy third party voters while in reality undermining the Buchananites who think you are secretly working for them while actually performing missions for the disgusting one issue malcontents who don't know you are really a member of the inner circle of the secret order.
Do you dance naked in the dark of night around a bronze statue of Lazamataz while sacrificing puppies to Bahl?
Curious minds want to know.
And later he initiated an Act as President that, in my opinion, saved many lifes and avoided continued wars, an Act incredible in its foresight, and born of his love and respect for the Indians. That Act is known today as the "Trail of Tears." He forced the Indians -- the Cherokee and others -- into the far west, far away from their ancestral homeland. Most accounts and hostory see that as a most sad occassion, a lamentable Act. It was the opposite, but human foresight is limited.
The Bush family has been grand friends and allies of the Gulf States. And alongside of them we have fought a war under the dad, GHW Bush, and even now act with them as allies of a sort under the son, Dubya.
Yet like Andrew Jackson realized and acted upon ... love sometimes has to be tough love.
bttt
She's a babe but that doesn't change the fact that she's dead wrong on this one.
She's a babe all right....but her intellect and reason makes her gorgeous!
Obviously it needs the agreement of CFIUS, doesn't it. They are acquiring port business on American soil.
She doesn't pretend to be killing terrorists from behind her keyboard, she does incredible research.
They are also forgetting that our "real" ally GREAT BRITAIN is going to be mighty pissed when Congress scuttles this deal too.
As for Malkin, she falls into that same category. Her hatred for President Bush as well as for Arabs, permeates everything she writes. After all, she is the one who suggested everyone of Arab decent be placed in concentration camps without cause or trial.
Well with your post #29, IMO, people have you figured out.
You are on drugs.
You might find some in a Navy exchange.
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