Harry Krause wrote:
Reggie Smithers wrote:
Harry Krause wrote:
Reggie Smithers wrote:
Harry Krause wrote:
thunder wrote:
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:26:16 +0000, NOYB wrote:

The UAE will become a critical ally should military action need
to be
taken against Iran. Currently, the UAE and Iran are in a dispute
over a
small island in the Strait of Hormuz named Abu Masa. The
Iranians occupy
it, and should we come to blows with Iran, the control of that
island will
be critical to keeping the shipping lanes open in the Strait of
Hormuz.
Look at a map, NOYB. Iran's occupation of the Tunb and Abu Masa
Islands
would be untenable in the event of war. We already have basing
rights in
UAE, Qatar, and Oman.


The port deal is not about financial gain of Bush or his
friends. It's
about greasing the palms of an important ally prior to our next
phase in
the war on terror.
NOYB is just desperately looking for rationalizations to explain
away this latest screw-up of you know who.
This is a screw-up from a PR stand point. It does make sense to
allow Arab companies invest in our country, the same way we have
invested in countries around the world.

Oh, I agree. An office building, a soap manufacturing plant. Why not.
But not important infrastructure that has anything to do with
national security. I don't want Arabs running our ports, our
airports, our water treatment plants, our waste disposal businesses,
our highways, our hospitals, our few remaining defense plants, the
AEC, a nuclear power plant, Los Alamos, NASA, or whatever else the
Bush Administration is planning to sell off.

UAE firms have operated in the port of Houston since the 90's, without
any controversy or fear. As I said, this is a PR mistake, not a
Security Issue.


If I were POTUS, I'd not allow any foreign companies or governments to
"operate" or be involved in anything in connection with our national
security, and that includes ports, of course.

Port Operations is not part of our national security, I would hate to
think we have turned over national security to a bunch of Longshoreman
and a company whose responsibility is to unload freight as quickly as
possible. The national security of our ports is and should be the
responsibility's of US Custom and Homeland Security.

If a Muslims or Arab owns a business in the Empire State Building or
Rockefeller Center, should we not allow him to own the business because
he could place a bomb in the building and blow it up. Sounds like you
have an argument that would insure we do not allow any Muslims or Arabs
to own any business in the US.

Wither you know it or not, you are acting like a bigot.

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Reggie
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