Posted on 02/23/2006 3:37:41 PM PST by Stellar Dendrite
"I think I've finally got you figured out."
...Well with your post #29, IMO, people have you figured out.
You are on drugs...
If only you knew Dane, old man. Hahahahahahahahahaa!
Don't stop being you, ol buddy.
Promise you won't stop.
"Quite a different reaction when Clinton was in office."
Quite a different "reaction", by whom, to what "when Clinton was in office"??
Gen. Franks knows quite a bit about it - the Navy logistics support via UAE ports has been superb.
I'll give her credit on one thing though...she doesn't look anorexic.
I keep hearing defenders of the deal say that Dubai is afraid of Iran and that's why we're there. We'd find out if that's true.
And the port services for USN combat vessels.
I would say Gen. Franks has way more in this matter, since he has worked side by side with the UAE in the WOT.
Michelle Malkin knows what she can find out on Google and Lexus-Nexus. I doubt she has ever been to Dubai, and I would bet cash money she doesn't know one person from that country.
Well gee he(Tommy Franks, sorry for the typo but I'm not perfect like michelle) only commanded CENTCOM from the UAE, while michelle thinks she commands her own CENTCOM from behind her laptop.
In self-interest, loosing that port access would be very bad for our WOT.
As far as a mutual protection vis-avis Iran's threat to UAE, do you want the UAE hit just as an experiment? Is that what you're saying?
She gets good ratings and advertising dollars when she goes off like this too.
Well, I happen to know one person from Oman, and she is a fine person. Says nothing whatsoever about the terrorists who sneak in and out of there.
You have to joking with that reply. He commanded our forces from the UAE, and you can bet your a$$ he knows how the flow of US military materiel and dock operations have benefitted our mission in the region.
I thought everyone knew how important the UAE was to our operations in Iraq. I thought people understood that we were trying to pull Arab countries to the West, and away from the fundamentalists. I thought everyone knew that Dubai was pro-West and has actual rights for women.
Boy, was I wrong! Apparently it doesn't matter that Dubai has given us a great deal of support, we use their ports for our navy, the government is more westernized than most of the Middle East, and they are interested in being the Singapore of the ME.
Nope. According to many on this forum, they are Arabs and therefore terrorists. And we are going to show them, by golly!
Of course, should they retaliate by refusing to serve us in ports, our navy ships will have to go to India, but then, what's a little inconvenience for the navy when we want to teach those Arabs a lesson?
Feh. Lots of hysteria and ignorance around here lately.
"Sorry michelle I'll trust Gen. Tonny Franks and not one who thinks she kills terrorists from behind a keyboard."
General George Patton smiles in Heaven whenever he thinks of General Franks!
LLS
Terrorism: In July 2004, the UAE enacted legislation that criminalized the funding of terrorist organizations. The law also increased the amount of time that public prosecutors can hold suspects in terrorism-related cases without charge from 21 days to six months. Terrorism cases are referred to the Federal Supreme Court, which may extend the detention period indefinitely.In December 2004, the Dubai Ports Authority (DPA), which operates the main container ports of Mina Jabal Ali and Mina Rashid, became the first Middle Eastern port to participate in the U.S. Homeland Security Container Security Initiative (CSI) program, which is aimed at preventing materials that could be used by terrorist groups from entering the United States in shipping containers. Under the CSI, DPA employees will screen suspicious United States-bound containerized cargo transiting Dubai's ports.
Dubai is strongly linked to the September 11, 2001, attack on the United States; more than half of the hijackers flew directly out of Dubai International Airport to the United States. In response to concerns that the UAE banking system had been used by the 9/11 hijackers to launder funds, in mid-2002 the UAE adopted legislation giving the Central Bank the power to freeze any suspected accounts for seven days without prior legal permission. In addition, banks have been advised to carefully monitor transactions passing through the UAE from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and are now subject to more stringent transaction and client reporting requirements. As of late 2004, however, evidence suggested that al Qaeda was continuing to use Dubai as a logistical hub for international travel, planning, and finance.
I think we all do, and so does Michelle, without ever stepping foot in the place or having any military rank. That statement is vague pablum and is neither here nor there with respect to this thread.
bttt
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