Dubai threat to hit back (UAE Threatens Against Boeing and US Bases Support)

The Hill.com ^ | March 9, 2006 | Roxana Tiron

[MikefromOhio]

you got that right.

[clawrence3]

If someone interferes in one of your business deals and costs you seven BILLION dollars, are you going to say to him, "Thank you sir, may I have another?"

[jess35]

True "friends" stick with/by you whether they get what they want or not.

You've got a warped view of friendship. A "true friend" doesn't call you a terrorist. They don't spit in your face and stab you in the back. That's what the anti-port faction is doing.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Meanwhile, Boeing has been in talks with the emirates to try to sell its AWACS planes.

Why the hell are we still allowing military equipment to be sold to a Gulf Arab state?

Did these greedy nitwits learn nothing from our experience with Saudi Arabia?

[djl_sa]

They should look at all of their US investments and decide which Senators/Congressmen districts would be most impacted if they pull those particular investments. Put the screws to the stupid representatives. Hastert is already feeling the pressure because of Boeing....

[Solson]

The Democrats don't have to do a damn thing to blame it all on Bush....the REPUBLICANS are doing their dirty work for them...and FReepers are THRILLED!

Yeah, go f-ing team.

[george wythe]

If we can't trust them to manage the unloading of containers, we shouldn't trust them with US military ships either.

Maybe we can dock our military ships in other friendly Persian Gulf countries, like Iran.

[Petronski]

They are NOT our friends.

Peter King, Hillary Clinton, John Boehner, Barbara Boxer, Bill Bennett, Chucky Schumer and the rest of them are doing their best to make that so.

[.cnI redruM]

We'll be far less bullet proof if we have to sail our navy ships from gulf all the way to Guam to get them repaired now.

[Coldwater Creek]

And when all Hell breaks loose after a Democrat is elected it will still be all Bush's fault.

[MikefromOhio]

No.

We can't give into Arab or anyone else's threats.

It's too late for that. IT NEVER should have come to this. That's what I am saying.

We're screwed. HOpe you enjoy it.

[kabar]

When you tell a trading partner that you don't care for them and don't want their business...you have to expect that they may return the favor. Can you blame them?

Exactly right. We only recently sold them 80 F-16s. We are in stiff competition with the Europeans in that area of the world for military equipment, commercial products, airliners, etc. People are standing in line to get their business. Discouraging foreign investment in the US is shooting ourselves in the foot.

[MizSterious]

I'm hoping there is some way this "blocking" can be stopped. What a travesty--for intel, for bases, and for foreign policy even beyond what is going on now.

[justshutupandtakeit]

I hope the moronic Republicans who have brainlessly followed the Party of Treason's lead in attacking one of our most valuable allies are pleased with themselves. Their idiocy has harmed our National Security immensely with their grandstanding and hysteria.

[norraad]

Bush (s) = Jimmy Carter without the nuts."

_Savage_

Only this time, no Reagan to save us.

[thoughtomator]

So much for the sincerity of their friendship. They thought they were buying us, not earning our friendship... because friendship as is understood in the West is a totally alien concept in the Islamic world.

[Coldwater Creek]

You got it!!!!!

[AUsome Joy]

And they call themselves our FRIENDS? Since when do FRIENDS behave this way with such vindictiveness? Hint: Friends don't retaliate like this.

I would imagine that this is what the UAE is saying right now.

[mlc9852]

There are quite a few Republican lawmakers who are not too happy about the deal. Maybe they are worried the voters will remember.

[cookcounty]

" I just have to wonder why he is so determined to see this through. "

Because without basing in the Gulf, we may as well pull our troops out now and give Iran the bomb. Who do YOU think is going to let us base there? Especially now that we've informed them that ALL Arab nations will be regarded as unable to do normal business with the US? Iran? Saudi?