Pentagon: Ports uproar may pose security risk

[arikara]

President tries to calm furor over takeover of port management

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The second in command at the Pentagon said Thursday that people who publicly oppose allowing a Middle Eastern company to take over management of some U.S. ports could be threatening national security.

Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England told the Senate Armed Services Committee that blocking the deal could ostracize one of the United States' few Arab allies.

"The terrorists want our nation to become distrustful," England said. "They want us to become paranoid and isolationist, and my view is we cannot allow this to happen. It needs to be just the opposite."

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http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/23/port.security/index.html

this is too funny!

[electropop]

1. It amazes me they can say shit like that with a straight face.

I know a lot of actors in Hollywood who could take lessons from them.

[Born Free]

2. you have got to love these guys, they never stop

Most normal people would realize that people can see through the BS yet they keep pouring it on, absolutely amazing

[MichiganVote]

3. I am soooo sick of the word terror

[RagingInMiami]

4. Wow

So if we don't allow a country with ties to 9/11 to own our ports, we are threatening national security? Talk about double-speak. These people have no shame with their rhetoric.

And the sad thing is, the average dumbass American is going to be reciting just that.

"You are unpatriotic because you don't support the port deal!"

"You hate your country because you're trying prevent the ports from being sold to a Middle Eastern country!"

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

5. This was just a joke thread on DU earlier today...now it's real. OMG!

politicaholic (1000+ posts)
Thu Feb-23-06 03:26 PM

Original message
Bush: "If you don't support the UAE deal, you don't support the troops..."


Hume: "I'm going to ask you a question sir and I want you to be candid and truthful..."

Pres.: "Always Brit, always...where did you get that name Brit anyhow?"

Hume: "My parents wanted a foreigner; now back to the question at hand, are you ready sir?"

Pres.: "Fire away, just don't aim for the face...*smirk*"

Hume: "How good is the UAE port deal for America and exactly how evil and unpatriotic are the people who oppose it?"

Pres.:"I'm glad you asked me that question Brat...If you don't support the UAE deal, you don't support the troops. *smirk* Plain and simple. The UAE are dedicated to helping us in The Long War to capture the terrorists that aren't blood related to them or profitable. There are just short sighted people in congress *smirk* that don't understand that this is business. *extra-smirky smirk* The American people just need to trust us because we know a whole bunch about business. We have a saying in Texas for business, it goes, 'Proximity, proximity, proximity' and I think that really applies in this case."

Hume: "Interesting...so you're saying that those against the UAE port deal are essentially killing soldiers in Iraq."

Pres.: "Yes Brett, that's what I'm saying."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=502179&mesg_id=502179

[arikara]

11. Oh, that is too funny

This whole thing is hilarious. Make sure you watch the video that's linked at the end of the article. Chimpy's so rattled he can hardly stammer and his jaw is grinding harder than ever.

[Megahurtz]

24. Ha ha! Interesting....

And what's even more interesting is that I really wonder
what the Troops' take is on this Ports Deal?

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

I sure what like to know what all of the Troops think about handing our Ports over to the UAE.:hurts:

[anotherdrew]

6. privatize the Secret Service then, let Bin Laden Group handle it. n/t

[havocmom]

15. Hell, just let some good ol boys from the US boonies do it!

The shrub won't go near REAL people in America. Let some of those real people do his security! The Bin Ladens are his pals.

[Mythsaje]

7. And we just bought a couple of bridges

in a clearance sale we're willing to let go 'real cheap.'

Just ring 1-800-NITWITS.

All kidding aside...what these yammering asses in Washington need to explain, in as diplomatic a manner as possible, that this whole thing is exploding because we had no idea that our ports were under foreign control in the first place, and the first we've heard of it they tell us that it's going to a nation in a part of the world this administration has done its level best to alienate for the past 6 years.

[meganmonkey]

8. LOLOLOLOL!!!!

:rofl:

Man, the headlines today are full of laughs! This one, Libby wanting the charges dropped, the white house issuing a katrina report, I have been cracking up all day.

Theater of the absurd, you couldn't make this shit up!

[Maeve]

9. If you don't trust us, the terrorists win!!!!

:rofl: :banghead: :rofl:

[pinniped]

10. Time to post this again.

Funny, when you read the title, one thinks the Pentagon is against the deal.

[rodeodance]

12. I think i hear it all--then along comes stuff like this!

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The second in command at the Pentagon said Thursday that people who publicly oppose allowing a Middle Eastern company to take over management of some U.S. ports could be threatening national security.

[SillyGoose]

13. Oh, for God's sake. Every question is a danger to national security

with this bunch. So now we need to shut up and embrace a country that was in cahoots with OBL to prove we're against terrorism? I don't think so, pal. These knuckleheads are so far out it would be hilarious if it weren't so sad.


:eyes:

[uppityperson]

14. wow. too funny today

[aquart]

16. Ah, darlings, the genie is out of the bottle on this one.

They did their work too well.+

[Rose Siding]

17. A mental double axel, triple Salchow and we're back to ground zero.

:banghead:

[StrafingMoose]

18. I don't think that's so funny..

when the 2nd head of your military says it's OK to sell out your infrastructures it shows how rotten parts of institutions are. When the military backs looting of the country, I call it hardcore fascism.

[Megahurtz]

19. OH COME ON!!!

:spray:
:rofl: Seriously!:rofl: That was a gallant stab at it, but, nice try!:rofl:

[Solly Mack]

20. Not even Kafka could write this shit

He would be in awe

[Born Free]

21. I wonder if the bush twins have their lovers say it to them too...

If you don't roll over and open the back door you are helping the terrorist...

[Ecumenist]

22. Oh please....

Any anything that runs counter to what they want to do is characterised as upholding terrorism or fostering potential attacks.
I'm so tired of this and it's so old.

[merwin]

23. This coming from the people who thought up the color-coded fear chart!

Funny shit.

[Oreegone]

25. Speaking your mind is a danger to national security

be afwaid, be vewy vewy afwaid. FEAR is the only way we can defeat the enemy....:sarcasm:

[Pachamama]

52. "Using your Brain is a danger to Nat'l Security-So stop using it"

:think:

[The Backlash Cometh]

26. Oh, screw you all in the Pentagon. This is what happens when you

fuck around with trust issues. Once you breach that trust, nobody believes you any more.

[burythehatchet]

27. This is called Gitmo Logic

That means logic that has been tortured to death

[Sarah Ibarruri]

28. What kind of bull is that? I don't even understand what he means. nt

[bettyellen]

29. SCARY SHIT: "people who publicly oppose... threaten national security"

and these people have the balls to say WE are spreading freedom?
:scared:

[highnooner]

30. War is Peace

Up is down
Left is right
Night is day
Black is white
and so on....

[cliss]

31. The problem with these stupid clowns -

is that they used it too many times. Remember right after 9/11? Somebody would always get up and say, "If we are scared, the terrorists have won". "If we quit shopping, the terrorists will win". "Get out there and have a good time because if you don't Bin Laden will win".

This is the worst form of sheep-herding I have ever seen in my life.

If they had been a little selective about using those phrases, it would have been more effective.

[LynnTheDem]

32. ROTFL!!! It's not the selling US security to the 911 financiers...

It's the UPROAR!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[bobbieinok]

36. just like 'it's not the torture, it's the pictures'

[LynnTheDem]

57. Yep, they just keep on regurgitating their crap.

If I could pretend hundreds of thousands of innocent people are not dead, dying, maimed, suffering from the bush regime, I'd laugh my frigging arse off at the insanity & incredible stupidity of the bush regime.

[threadkillaz]

33. You hear that Hannity???

You could be threatening national security, the way you were going off on the radio today.

Got that??

;)

[buddysmellgood]

34. Hey, let's put UAE in charge of airport security as well!

[ebayfool]

37. Better yet ... White House Security!

Let's see the boy who would be king back it up w/some real action ... UAE Secret Service Security Detail! Only to be used for the most important folk though - Junior & Senior, Rove, the kids & stepford wife, Condi, Rummy, Cheney & his pistol packin' mama, Ashcroft, Gonzalez, any justice he's appointed, you get the gist! Oh - & Jebby ... he's important too :evilgrin: !

[lyonn]

46. Speaking of Jeb, he is all for this UAE deal at the docks

I know, that surprises you.

[wordpix2]

48. Jebbie gets a cut of the action, too--Poppy told him so---from Carlyle

Group, no doubt

[Pachamama]

54. Ole Jeb gets to run the show next in '08...McCain thinks that he's got the

nod which is why he's endorsing the port deal....Poor McCain...he still doesn't get it...

[Platypus]

35. What the terrorists really want...

...is for the upper echelons of the US government to be full of arrogant jerks who think they can do no wrong and cannot be harmed, who are far too drunk on power to apply rational risk analysis or decision-making to matters of national security, and who treat consideration of less-than-ideal possible outcomes as a form of disloyalty. That's just what they're getting. If we are delivered into the hands of terrorists it will be by Bush and Cheney and their ilk, not by their critics.

[w4rma]

50. Exactly. I've never seen that said better. (nt)

[Miss Chybil]

38. No foreign owned companies controlling American ports, period. nt

[yellowcanine]

39. I can hear George Orwell laughing in the background. Does anyone else

hear it?

[Pachamama]

55. I think its Orwell, Kafka & Sinclair Lewis laughing and saying "Wow"

We got it right, but these sociopaths are more than we could have imagined....

Then they are shaking their heads and saying "We warned folks..."

[Triana]

40. anytime anyone disagrees with King Twit, it's a ...

"threat to ntl security"

This is transparent, pretentious, and essentially the equivalent of bu$hit threatening to hold his breath and kick on the floor if he doesn't get his way.


spoilt brat

[Cobalt Violet]

41. "The terrorists want our nation to become distrustful."

So doesn't the Fuhrer. He ran on it. The repugs were planning on running on it in 2006.

[MadMaddie]

42. Perhaps they should have thought of that before...

"shock and awe"

<snip>
Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England told the Senate Armed Services Committee that blocking the deal could ostracize one of the United States' few Arab allies.
<snip>

:nopity:

[VegasWolf]

43. Der Fuhrer Shrub is always reich!!! Comply or die. nt

[Rex]

44. There it is! There it is...do you smell what I smell?

Watch what you say!

[leesa]

45. Ah yes... CEO talk...it's not the bad policy, it's the PR about the bad

policy.

[Mika]

47. Know your Orwell

America. Now (2006).

http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/13/

For the moment he had shut his ears to the remoter noises and was listening to the stuff that streamed out of the telescreen. It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. Parsons swallowed it easily, with the stupidity of an animal. The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grammes.

[wordpix2]

49. Rep. Pete King (R) says there was NO REVIEW. Even Ann Coulter is against

the deal. This on MSNBC tonight.

[judaspriestess]

51. Dunno but this seems like another RED HERRING story

by the greatest red herring throwers of ALL TIME.

Think about it, Cheney's story ba-bye, Libby's story ba-bye to name a few

[HuffleClaw]

53. ok, now they are just being outright insulting.

pretty crazy, and a real demonstration of how they view any opposing viewpoint. and it isn't 'the terrorists' who "want us to become paranoid and isolationist", it bushco., that has been made clear time and time again.

[madmark]

56. dissent poses a national security threat? fuck off u moron

[tecelote]

58. But, but, you don't understand!

See, there is a profit to be made here. We can not just walk away from it. That profit will go somewhere else, to somebody else. It's just not fair! Who the hell to the American people think they are? Damnit!!

[drm604]

59. So this time it's not just us who are the traitors,

the freepers are right there along with us. They're getting a taste of their own medicine. I wish I could believe that it will change their future behaviour.

[arikara]

60. I have a greater understanding of their desperation now...

I was listening to a program, unfortunately didn't catch any names... where they were saying that the reason the port sale has to go through is because of so much foreign ownership of basically valueless dollars. If the foreigners have nothing to spend their dollars on they will dump them for Euros and the dollar will sink faster than a rock. This is why all the American infrastructure and assets are being sold to China and Arabs.

The way it was explained, it makes sense. Sorry I can't support with links though.