United Arab Emirates to Control our Ports??

EUA ports inc.

Man, he might as well as give the airlines. to N. Korea. This isn't an idea, its a plot. That will be the end of the unions, ouch. You wonder why the the senators are caving in, he takes them in that room and shows them what they were engaging in at that party with that little girl or boy. Why do think every body up there is worried about all domestic SPYING? I hope they don't know about me and that girl on the school bus when I was in the eighth grade.
 
Let's just admit, for the sake of argument, that the UAE will not control any security operations.

What will they be paid to do? At minimum, the actual physical movement of shipping containers.

Completely US-controlled security watches that movement. Every last container and its contents. Perfectly. Can you say "easter bunny"? How about "heroin"? Or "ecstasy"?

So, let's forget about trusting our own intelligence/security agencies, the ones who kept 9/11 from happening, you know, to protect us perfectly.

The risk is in the fact that those actually moving, filling, emptying shipping containers will potentially be bossed by UAE end-to-end.

You say that when UAE buys the British company, all the employees will remain British? I seriously doubt that. At least the very top tier will be replaced with loyal UAE subjects. And those are the ones who will say how operations go.

That makes our line of defense the US citizens who you say would not sell out their country.

We don't have to look too far to find people who would sell out their fellow citizens. Why the hell do many of us have guns? To protect ourselves against exactly such people who are happy to kill you and your family for your wallet.

Charles Manson. Jeffrey Dahmer. Gacy. Son of Sam. All US citizens.

But none of them attacked the US itself, only its citizens.

How about Tim McVeigh?

Looks like that line of defense is already down.

Giving a questionably friendly country end-to-end control of the aspect of port operations that could damage us (that aspect being the actual shipping of stuff) is a stupid idea.

So, why not be unhappy about allowing the Japanese to own buildings here? So far, they haven't attacked us on our own soil (one of the states).

You might argue that the chances that everything can be lined up perfectly, like finding enough disgruntled US longshoremen, paying somebody to forge container seals, having security people munching donuts rather than inspecting, and all the things that would have to happen to get a nuclear weapon shipped here are very very small.

But since the explosion would be very very big, I don't want to support something that would make the chances any bigger than they have to be. Let alone support something that practically begs for it.
 
Yep.
He gets to walk away from a massive debt and out of control spending too!
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There's 500 other people you need to be upset with too. Except for the people who voted against it.

Two of the 9/11 guys were from UAE
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They passed fund for the 9/11 guys and the Taliban through thier country.
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How does this prove that the government of the UAE supports terrorism? Money for terrorists passes through this country every day, I'd believe. I'm sure several future terrorists live in this country. Does that mean that we support terrorists?


I'd like a lot more details as to why we weren't controlling these ports in the first place. Why did a non-American company have control? Were we making money on that deal? Is that why someone else was doing it? Why can't an American private company do it? (Probably because they got outbid). So, a company owned by an Arab ally would now be in charge?
 
I don't capeesh! How can this administration justify turning over the "control" of our ports to the UAE but were totally consumed with keeping that "dangerous" songwriter of "Peacetrain" Cat Stevens out!:eek: Wazupwidat?:eek: Maybe he would have lyriced us to death!

Rimrock
 
IF they are gonna hire security and it is my understanding that is one of their liberties as port operators,,THEY WILL HAVE SOME CONTROL OVER THERM.:eek:

Too bad that there are those who would sell their mother if gwb said it was the righ thing to do.:D
 
Two of the 9/11 guys were from UAE
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They passed fund for the 9/11 guys and the Taliban through thier country.
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How does this prove that the government of the UAE supports terrorism? Money for terrorists passes through this country every day, I'd believe. I'm sure several future terrorists live in this country. Does that mean that we support terrorists?
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JC...the fact that the UAE did not allow the US investigators access to their banking records makes me wonder. The fact that members of the UAE are going hunting with Bin Laden make me wonder. I get annoyed that the admin is trying to throw the race card in this. I TRUST THE SAUDIS MUCH MORE than the UAE. Of all the middle eastern countries you have ones that are more friendly to the US like Jordon and Turkey and those that are enemies like Iran and Syria, the UAE is somewhere in the middle listing toward the bad side. Sure the UAE government lets us have a US naval base there, but then on the other hand they are partying with Bin Laden.

Would you trust the Columbian government to run the ports??? Heck No, because some of the Columbian government is corrupted by Drug Cartels and someone could try to use the ports to smuggle in drugs. SAME THING HERE. Remember the UAE is a bunch of indiviual kingdoms united together (like the US states) Each Kingdom has it own ruler, some are loyal to the US, some are loyal to Bin Laden and his message to destroy the USA, and some are in the middle. Each ruler has an active role in this company. IT IS INSANE to think that someone in the UAE might not try something if Bin Laden asked. The US intellegence network did not see 9/11 coming, and was off on Iraqi WMDs how is a few USCG, FBI and port authority investigators going to find 5 or 6 well hidden nukes in one container when there is literally over a Million coming to US ports every day?


This is not a private company that can stand to go Bankrupt if somehow one bad seed allows a terrorist attack. What if it is agreed that the destruction of Israel and the US would be better for the UAE and the region. What if the UAE makes a secret pact with Iran, similar to Russia and Germany did in the early part of WWII. A privately run company would police itself more. It is real hard to see a private company doing this but a Governmant run one, that has direct ties to Bin Laden....IT IS INSANE.
 
all i can say about this is.... cant America do anything for itsself anymore?

more brilliant planning from the bush administration.
 
Nice to see that not all my fellow gun nuts are blind sheep who can't see Bush for what he really is. Hey I'm a republican too, but I have a 3 digit IQ and some common sense; just because I'm conservative doesn't mean I have to agree with or like GWB.
 
As a conservative, I also ask why he has placed this country in a financially vulnerable situation?
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Easy question. To exert more control over the country as a whole, the powers that be must ruin our economy and financial stability. The great depression had worldwide impacts and helped vault Hitler into control of Germany.
 
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