Awesome. It's always good for Americans to be reminded who their true friends are.... and aren't. :)
-Dan
Posted on 03/09/2006 9:02:17 AM PST by prairiebreeze
Yep.
Let's see.. denial, or even questioning a UAE business venture in the US is deserving of essentially kicking out all US assets and scraping many/all US contracts in the UAE.
Yeah.. seems reasoned to me.
Yeah.. seem like great allies to me.
Yeah.. gonna go buy a bridge now.
It is called strategery.
So it's not Bush's fault? It's ours!!!
So it's not Bush's fault? It's ours!!!
Wrong reaction. How many foreign countries will want to do business with the US now?
I worked as a commerial investment analyst on deals up to $1B; on deals more than that, the CFO had to sign off. Sometimes a deal just couldn't come together, despite working toward conclusion for nearly a year.
There are, at a minimum, tens of thousands of dollars involved in bringing a deal together. Include staff time and you're in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Every businessman who has been similarly shafted has threatened retaliation in some form. I don't blame the UAE in any way and would do the same.
I'm tired of threats by pissant countries. Screw them.
FOR SALE. large part of the north american continent, well developed. asking price? 7 billion in aircraft taken in trade.
Seriously, UAE would be very foolish to kick us out and they aint stupid just yet. If we are forced out, guess who will see an opening? Yep, the tall guy with many followers. This would be his dream as he has so often stated. And if he gets his own country, Saudia Arabia is soon to follow.
To all those who are now bashing those of us who wanted to make sure the ports deal was kosher, I can only say this to you.
TRILLIONS FOR DEFENSE, BUT NOT ONE CENT FOR TRIBUTE. You folks need to take some male hormone shots.
From the uniformed ramblings on this thread, you'd think this was the DU.
Do some research people, before you spout the Democratics talking points. This uproar is strictly political crap to make the Dems look strong on Security and you people are buying it hook, line and sinker.
We brought it upon ourselves.
their economy will be just fine. Dubai is increasingly replacing Bahrain as the playpen of the Middle East.
And now for my next prediction (I called this last night when the GOP idiots stuck that into the defense bill), I predict that the UAE will cozy up with Iran.
They don't want too, but we've absolutely screwed them on this. They opened their country to our men and women in uniform, but we are petty, I guess.
We're screwed. I hope Qatar doesn't kick us out.
That's the freeper way...
Just watch the cockroaches in Congress crawl back into their dark holes. To profess that we encourage our allies to help us in our war on terrorism and than back away from a fully vetted deal, as approved by Congress, is political suicide.
It's called "when you kick a guy in the nuts, you're probably off of his Christmas Party invitation list."
It seems to me this is a win/win for the Democrats. They get to damage the economy, alienate an ally in the war on terror, and make Bush look bad, all while posturing as defenders of our national security. What a coup, and credit must be given to their useful idiots on the Republican side who went along.
The knee jerk election-year scrambling to offend countries whose support we need in the WOT is making our nation less secure. I'm not surprised at it coming from DemocRATS, but some Republicans are also being nincompoops.
-Dan
I know. lol
What "bases" would we be giving them? Do you not understand? We are guests in THEIR ports, and they are threatening to kick us OUT if we block this deal. I don't blame them - we're about to bend them over when they have been very helpful.
bfl
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