Can You Believe This

[joycenalex]

please tell me, this really is an early april fools' joke?

[KYS]

I heard about this on cable news this morning.
UNBELIEVABLE!

[smokey the elder]

Man, if this bunch ran World War II we'd be speaking German now.

[lizbud]

please tell me, this really is an early april fools' joke?

It's true alright. Check out this Fox news report. The scary thing is it
places all the security issues for oversite to DHS.A dept that can't get
anything right.The outsourcing of operations to run US ports in major
cities is unreal. What kind of clowns are running things in Washington.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,185401,00.html

[Vela]

What kind of clowns are running things in Washington.

Really really stupid ones who are out to destroy this country as fast as they possibly can. I love and honor the United States of America and what it was founded on. I am digusted with our government, and this is the worst of the bunch in office now. Hard to beleive it could get much worse....if it does I'm not looking forward to it one bit.

[beeniesmom]

I heard about it a few hours ago.
I don't believe they really have decided to do this.

[lizbud]

Bush Rejects Calls To Abandon Arab Port Deal

POSTED: 3:48 pm EST February 21, 2006
UPDATED: 4:28 pm EST February 21, 2006

WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush said Tuesday that the deal allowing an Arab company to take over six major U.S. seaports should go forward and that he would veto any congressional effort to stop it.

"After careful review by our government, I believe the transaction ought to go forward," Bush told reporters who had traveled with him on Air Force One to Washington. "I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a Great British company. I am trying to conduct foreign policy now by saying to the people of the world, `We'll treat you fairly."'

Bush called reporters to his conference room on the plane after returning from a speech in Colorado, addressing a controversy that is becoming a major headache for the White House. He said the seaports arrangement was "a legitimate deal that will not jeopardize the security of the country."

The president spoke only hours after Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist urged the administration to reverse its decision to allow the transaction, under which a British company that has been running six U.S. ports would be acquired by Dubai Ports World, a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates.

The British company, Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., runs major commercial operations at ports in Baltimore, Miami, New Jersey, New Orleans, New York and Philadelphia.

"The decision to finalize this deal should be put on hold until the administration conducts a more extensive review of this matter," said Frist. "If the administration cannot delay this process, I plan on introducing legislation to ensure that the deal is placed on hold until this decision gets a more thorough review."

Frist, who spoke to reporters in Long Beach, Calif., where he was on a fact-finding tour on port security and immigration issues, said he doesn't oppose foreign ownership, "but my main concern is national security."

Two Republican governors, New York's George Pataki and Maryland's Robert Ehrlich, voiced their own doubts a day earlier.

But Bush said sternly he would not back down.

"They ought to listen to what I have to say about this. They'll look at the facts and understand the consequences of what they're going to do," he said. "But if they pass a law, I'll deal with it with a veto."


This should be a clue as to what to expect here. They'll screw it up
bigtime. Careful review, right.

"After careful review by our government, I believe the transaction ought to go forward," Bush told reporters "

[Lady's Human]

A piece of advice for POTUS, Sec. Rice, and Sec. Chertoff.........

When you find yourselves in a hole, your first course of action should be





PUT DOWN THE SHOVEL AND STOP DIGGING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





Yes, the deal is technically legal, but mainly due to outdated laws that assumed only "good" countries would be in a position to make these acquisitions. It's time to change the laws, and I don't think the President's veto would be worth the paper it's written on. It would be overriden by both houses of Congress in minutes.

[lizbud]

I loved this comment by Sen. Graham.



"It's unbelievably tone deaf politically at this point in our history," Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., said on "Fox News Sunday."