From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Adam"  wrote in message
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> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>> I have no problem with each country controlling their port of entry. I
>> reckon the Gambino and Genovese mafia clans that have controled ports in
>> New York for ages haven't paid their neocon dues lately
>>
>
> Shrug. Multinational comps are multinational comps. I did laugh out loud
> when on TV there was some pol from New York saying how Dubai/the USA had a
> long history of terrorism etc e.g.:
>
> ""It's unbelievably tone-deaf politically at this point in
our history,
> four years after 9-11, to entertain the idea of turning port security over
> to a company based in the UAE, who avows to destroy Israel," Sen. Lindsey
> Graham, R-S.C., said in a Fox News Sunday interview."
>
> &
>
> "Critics have cited the UAE's history as an operational and financial base
> for the hijackers who carried out the attacks of Sept. 11. In addition,
> they contend the UAE was an important transfer point for shipments of
> smuggled nuclear components sent to Iran, North Korea and Libya by a
> Pakistani scientist."
>
> So poor old condi is having to duck & weave e.g.:
>
> ""I would hope that our friends in Abu Dhabi would not be
offended by the
> fact that in our democracy, we debate these things," Rice said in the
> interview with the Arab journalists."
>
> I love the fact that Britain controls all the major east/gulf coast US
> ports..ahhh plus ca change 
>
> So the Gulf states are your allies etc & let you base ships in Bahrain, HQ
> in Qatar, Bombers etc in Oman & yet....
>
> Adam

Oh yeah - We should have a lot of confidence in what Homeland Security
Secretary Michael Chertoff tells us as he handled the Katrina event so
well.

Does Britain 'trust' all their allies? Wasn't Saddam once considered an
American ally? It's just a partnership of convenience. "It's
unbelievably tone deaf politically at this point in our history," Sen.
Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., said on "Fox News Sunday."


"Most Americans are scratching their heads, wondering why this company
from this region now," Graham said.

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