United Arab Emirates company to take over major U.S. ports

[toasty]

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to me, it just seems like another oppurtunity for the democrats who are partisan to jump on a podium, and say ""look another thing the administration is doing wrong""

The dems don't have a monopoly on questioning this move. Ridge came out earlier today calling for a more thorough investigation into the UAE company, and I gather that a number of republicans are looking for that as well. I think it is a legitimate point of inquiry, at least.

[thesightless]

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The dems don't have a monopoly on questioning this move. Ridge came out earlier today calling for a more thorough investigation into the UAE company, and I gather that a number of republicans are looking for that as well. I think it is a legitimate point of inquiry, at least.

yeah saw that after i posted.

one thought

""covering the republican asses for the next election and to show the right wingers we dont want foreigners involved.""

both sides kinda have BS cases unless the UAE company decides to go non union, restaff with middle eastern nationals and kick out the US coast guard, US customs, and local police forces........

[toasty]

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In fact, Frist is calling for a stop to the deal:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060221/ap_on_go_co/ports_security

You don't get too much more republican than Bill Frist. Not a partisan issue.

[liquidsky]

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Bush is out of his freakin' mind with this one

[superdave]

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Both Republicans and Democrats are against this and want the deal reviewed or stopped. I don't really see partisan politics happening too much on this issue. Mostly it's Congress members of both parties working together because its such a bad idea on its face value.

I still haven't heard Bush's side of the story yet, but the UAE managing ports sounds bad no matter how you spin it. Anyone have a link or story about why Bush is ok with this move?

[thesightless]

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the thing ill say about this.

if microsoft is bought out tomorrow by the crown prince, does every single gov't computer need to be shut off

[neoee]

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^^^^ Your earlier post makes perfect sense. You actually changed my mind about a topic. Port authorities will be the ones responsible for inspections of incoming containers. However your MS analogy is pretty bad. With that logic your saying we should go back and inspect every item shipped before the company take over.

As a side note though, every govt. computer running Microsoft OS SHOULD be shut down simply because of all the security holes. But even the govt. is somewhat aware of that. You may remember this from a while ago:

US Government warns against Internet Explorer

[thesightless]

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oh plz. you got my point.

[anonin]

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Hmmmmm.... sneaking a weapon in is absurd?

Do you know how small that weapon can be? Do you know how big ships are? Do you know that ships come into port every day and many times a day? Do you know that they arent searched for security purposes before leaving wherever they are coming in from? Don't you think it might be a fuck of a lot easier to sneak something into one of those than to coordinate the hijacking of 4 planes by 22 people and having them trained to pilot huge fucking airplanes with precision directly into the bullseye of their targets? (successfully I might remind you)

think about that for half a second

no one is sneaking in any weapons of mass destruction, dont let the bush co. tell you otherwise.

[thesightless]

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dude...............

seriously, if they are going to try to get a WMD into our ports, there is nothing we can do to stop them, outside of patrolling every single port in the world. what these guys do is prevent it from getting off the boat and out of customs. all they have to do is put it on a ship, and blow the bomb, release the gas once they hit the pier.

[miketpoto]

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no one is sneaking in any weapons of mass destruction, dont let the bush co. tell you otherwise.

As someone who watched september 11th happen first hand, saw the towers fall from midtown and felt the rumble of it all, I have to say I disagree somewhat.

A- Bush isnt trying to say that anyone is sneaking in WMD, his admin is the one that approved this.

B- If it happens it happens, oh well, but lets not roll out the red carpet annd make ourselves look even more like hypocritical jackasses...

C- I dont let the Bush administration tell me jack shit.

[thesightless]

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oh , i let them tell me whatever they want to. then i laugh. usually a lot.

[toasty]

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Well, this is interesting. Looks like Bush himself didn't know shit about the deal he's been defending until after it was approved:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060222/ap_on_go_pr_wh/ports_security

[toasty]

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^^ this shocks the conscience, in my opinion. Am I naive to think that Bush should have personally had some input into this? I mean, I realize that he isn't the guy that really makes all of the decisions and doesn't get into a lot of the day-to-day, but for him to not even be aware of something like this is stunning.

I dunno. Maybe it's just another straw laid on the broken back of a camel.

[anonin]

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bush is making so much money off this whole deal its not even funny.