----and now reportedly Dubai is divesting itself of ALL American assets.... Hope everyone is happy.----
Aren't you? That's exactly what you wished for yesterday....
----Dumb damn bastards.----
Damn dirty apes!
-Dan
Posted on 03/09/2006 9:02:17 AM PST by prairiebreeze
I don't believe there's enough duct tape in the country for Chris Matthews if Halliburton actually does the deal.
LOLOL!
"Name calling doesn't give anymore credence to your argument"
Yet, your side continues to call business people terrorist and massage religious bigotry for votes.
Oh, yes, I forgot - the "Religion of Peace" strategy. I'm glad Iran changed its ways once we won their hearts and minds.
These people want to destroy our civilization. They have no interest in being friends with "the infidel".
"It's strictly business, Santino".
"So, UAE resorts to economic blackmail. "
Are you kidding. If you got slapped in the face how in the hell would you feel. You have called them an enemy.
You are right about some of the opposition. They are so certain of the importance of sealing the borders that they are willing to abandon the middle east to Al Qaeda just so long as we build a big wall to keep out mexicans.
Whatever company buys the U.S. subsidiaries which run these terminals, they won't be able to run the terminals as well as DP WOrld, they won't be able to upgrade security like DP WOrld. And DP World won't have to give us access to the stuff they were going to give us access to, and they won't cooperate like they would have.
I bet this won't mollify the opponents of the deal, but in any case we will be less secure.
If in the next 5 years we have a terrorist act through these terminals, after DP World transfers the operations to a U.S. company, I assume all the republicans who voted yesterday will resign their offices.
And all those Freepers who said we would be perfectly safe so long as UAE doesn't run the ports will all publicly apologize and pay compensation to the victims.
Good points.
Brit Hume: Dubai Ports has companies all over the world and will sell off the US piece to this deal. It will sell off to a US entity.
It's not clear that a US entity exists to do this work. One might have to be created.
Dubai doesn't want to have a fire sale so it will take a while to execute this. It will give Republicans the cover they need to back off on this.
Me: So to the person on this thread trying to pretend that "we were lied to" that an American company couldn't handle this transaction, I guess you were wrong. Again.
Aren't you? That's exactly what you wished for yesterday....
----Dumb damn bastards.----
Damn dirty apes!
-Dan
BTW, I will note that it seems John Warner took action and got DP World to do this -- and I bet the action yesterday by the house made it a lot harder.
Just keep repeating: Islam is a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of peace...
Congress and "the people" should honor their agreements and not break their own word after a mere 6 days.
If you don't think the UAE has been beneficial to us in the WOT, then you aren't paying attention.
Take your other issue to an immigration thread.
Why are you trashing the American company already? They haven't even announced who's taking over the contract.
Some seem to forget, we are American's and aren't afraid. If we are hurt by this then we were too dependent on them to begin with. That said, we need to give them a save face out.
Stop that. Your confusing them with facts again. It's harder to hate people if you know the truth.....
agree 100%
So you just follow blindly!!
At this point in time, we have the Chinese and Japanese holding up our government bonds and GSE's. We have the ME holding up our oil needs. We have Vincente Fox and Mexico holding us hostage with our border. And...we have a globalist corporatist government (on both sides, I might add) which has a long range plan to incorporate everyone's economy and labor (don't forget fungible labor which is a key element in globalism-hello Gold Card)which eventually, so they believe, will result in a happy world of intertwined relationships and no war.
To which I say: Been there. Done that...and it doesn't work.
It just depends upon your viewpoint; global or sovereign..
This whole code of honor at all costs, let's kill the Jews, we hate the infidel West except when its propping up our despotic little regime crap has to end.
If the only positive consequence of this debacle is a realization among the American public that someone who was born in Manchester and is a member of the Church of England and someone who's a Muslim born in the arid desert are not interchangeable entities, then it would have served its purpose.
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