UAE port takeover is a scam to allow Republicans to distance themselves

[johncoby2]

From the administration and show they can provide balance to Bush.

Just heard congressman culberson on the radio today. He is a beer short of a six pack. But he claims that his committee can cut the funds to the contracts therefore killing it. He criticized Bush on this plan and the administration for letting it happen.

He is now a hero. Yea right. This is all a set up. The admin will back down and the republicans will look like they opposed bush.

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. What 'funds to the contracts'?

It's the sale of a British company to a Dubai one. What funds does he mean?

[sandnsea]

2. Hillary & Menendez introduced port legislation

I didn't dig into it, but we should really be pushing it because this is a winner issue if I ever saw one.

[Mitt Chovick]

3. and Schumer is on talking about this with Michael Savage

:wtf:

Strange times

[yellowdogmi]

4. hmmmm, maybe.

You may be on to something. They did have the strategy session not that long ago. On another thread here it was noticed how for once that freepers agree with us on this issue. I was appalled about it. I recall President Kerry talking about the ports during the campaign. He talked about how few shipping containers we actually screen. Giving control of a national security portal like that to a country that helped channel money to 911 hijackers seemed outrageous. Could be a ploy so the repukes say they don't walk in lockstep with the WH. Of course they are right in step with * when it comes to stuff like the wiretapping. Interesting insight.


on edit. Of course we could use it to point out that the repukes are operating in a pre 911 world. Turn their meme back on them.

[AnnInLa]

5. the admin will definitely back down on this

their base is riled....kkkarl will order the pres to back off this deal.

Look who is on the Committee on Foreign Investments in the U.S.:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/2/17/104325/112

Dubai Ports World is controlled by the UAE royal family. The decision to grant the $6.8 billion sale to Dubai was made by the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States . Who sits on the committee? The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, the Department of Homeland Security, the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Commerce, the Attorney General, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Trade Representative, and the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. The Committee is chaired by the Secretary of the Treasury.

So Gonzales, Rice, Rumsfeld, Snow, and an other Bush administration officials conducted a security review and decided--unanimously--that the sale did not post a national security threat. How thorough was their investigation? They did not conduct background checks on senior managers of the company, nor did they ask how the company screens its own employees. You know, just in case a terrorist wants to infiltrate the company that now has unprecedented and unfettered access to our ports

[Strelnikov_]

6. I Think You Are On To Something

It became apparent that the standard outlets of the Reich Ministry of Truth were pushing this as a focus of the daily Two Minute Hate. I have never known the Ministry to go against the Maximum Leader Princip, unless it was part of a planned strategy.

Look for the Reichpublican Congress take credit for shooting this down, as you allude to.