CONGRESSIONAL RECOIL FROM LATEST DUBAI TAKEOVER

Sierra Times ^ | 5/4/2006 | Diane Grassi

[jec41]

Where Is the Outrage at Bush's Dubai Arms Deal? President Bush approved a deal to allow a company from Dubai, the country that was forced to withdraw from the Portgate deal, to take over American plants that make parts for jets and tanks for the United States.

Bush did not approve any deal between companies. That is done between the owners and stockholders. Neither CFIUS nor congress saw the purchase as a threat to national security so therefore he did not veto the deal on that basis and neither did congress disapprove on that basis. The president does not run around making deals for companies. Actually he did nothing but accept the findings of CFIUS and congress.

[ozoneliar]

Representative John Barrow [said]..... “We’ll never know if continuing down this path of selling of our national defense industries will end up hurting us in the long run. We all have to draw the line when it comes to selling our national defense establishment. We don’t want to outsource our military industrial complex one piece at a time.”

He's right. I don't give a flying [insert word] what country is buying our defense contractors, its not good.

[Nathan Zachary]

Carefull infidel, don't snuggle up too close to your Muslim pals, you may loose your head.

The only reason we can park our ships in the ports of Dubai is because we protect them from other Muslims who would not think twice about sinking those ships.

If they weren't in fear of them, they most certainly wouldn't be our chummy pals. We are only a nessesary evil for them at the moment, and that could very easily change.

[VOATNOW1]

"Name calling begins in the 3rd post."

Yes, and we should ignore this type of poster. FR only has a few of these kind of people on it and we only make it worse by responding to them. They like to make trouble, so ignoring them is the best thing to do. We should do the some with the other name callers that, I am sure, you are aware of. They start fights every time they post and we help them by responding.

[RegulatorCountry]

Infamous, shreiking CAPS begin in the 11th.

[coladirienzi]

All other arguments aside, basing a good portion of the fleet in that part of the world in Dubai,is tactical stupidity of the first order.

You don't put blue water navy in a situation where it has to run narrow straits in order to get out to the open ocean. John Paul Jones and Lord Nelson must be spinning in their graves. Bad things happen to navies in narrow waters.

[MattinNJ]

Gee I am sorry you have an irrational fear and hate of Muslims.

I am sorry you have a blind trust of those who fly planes into our buildings and military headquarters and behead people. Perhaps that will be some comfort to you when you, or your descendants, are forced to your knees and the hooded ones start chanting Allah is great as they start to saw your head off.

Oh that's right. Only 10% are "extreme". Assuming for a minute that is true, that makes a 100 million or so of the murdering SOBS's running around. Yet somehow I am a rascist because I am just a tad bit concerned about them.

[USNBandit]

Okay so are you equally concerned about the port facilities on the West Coast run by the Red Chinese? If you are so shocked about Dubai Ports World where is your outrage over the National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia. They run 9 port terminals on the east coast.

You are being used by a group of politician pandering to the stevedore unions. Congratulations.

[Iscool]

fail completely to recognized the fact that that vast bulk of the people doing the fighting and dying for US in the War on Terror are Arab Muslims.

There is no one dying in Arabia for Americans...Plenty of Americans have died for them tho...Unless you are suggesting this so-called war is for the benefit of George Bush and the Republican Party and you...That could very well be...

[HitmanLV]

Dubya seems to be going to great lengths to alienate more and more Americans, and undermine his leadership & credibility. Can't wait to see his incongruous smiles, strange stream-of-conciousness speech, and odd squints when a democrat controlled house impeaches his arse and keeps him busy while a war against Islamic terrorism continues.

[Iscool]

Follow the money. The ports deal had 0% to do with security and 100% to do with union politics.

Isn't that funny...Most of the country was against the deal...Know what??? Most of the country doesn't belong to a union...Guess you know what you're talking about...

[Flavius Josephus]

UAE are the ones that are the bigoted and antisemitic Hamas-funders.

[Flavius Josephus]

American Know Nothings, who never even been outside their own trailer park

Yeah, you can teach us a lot about racism and bigotry.

[MattinNJ]

I am equally, if not more so, concerned about the Chicomms. The Chinese are highly competent and are doing a brilliant job of spreading their tentacles. I trust the Saudi's, the Dubain's etc... as far as I can throw them.

My opposition has nothing to do with supporting the unions as I am a free market capitalist and consider the unions an artificial barrier to that economic school of thought. How would you label me? Did you ever leave room for the possibility that there are conservatives out there who oppose the deal from strictly a national security point of view?

[Flavius Josephus]

In fact we import a great deal of it. Aircraft parts are made at several Canadian plants for example.

So what are we supposed to do if we have to go to war with Canada? They'll pwn us.

[Flavius Josephus]

Can't wait to see his incongruous smiles, strange stream-of-conciousness speech, and odd squints when a democrat controlled house impeaches his arse

Heh. That will be entertaining, no matter which side of the aisle you're on.

[skeeter]

It is not I, sir or madam, that pretends to be conservative.

Excellent post, but I fear its wasted on spam artists, especially those who save their most vitriolic spittle-flecked criticisms for 'fellow' conservatives.

[HitmanLV]

That's certainly true.

[sinkspur]

The ports deal had 0% to do with security and 100% to do with union politics.

Congratulations! You win the grand prize!

The union politics was played by the Democrats; the Republicans were cowed by the Democrats.

[sinkspur]

Isn't that funny...Most of the country was against the deal...Know what??? Most of the country doesn't belong to a union...Guess you know what you're talking about...

Why isn't the country opposed to this deal?

Here's a hint: the country was whipped into a frenzy by a huckster (Chuck Schumer), aided and abetted by the terminally stupid Peter King, who managed to tap an Arab xenophobia.

Perhaps the country is ashamed of itself, or it has shifted its xenophobia toward Mexicans.