UAE Port Deal

[dustybottoms]

I expect the usual Bush apologists to start spinning away.
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[Nepa]

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I expect the usual Bush apologists to start spinning away.
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You won't hear it on here because the Bush lovers won't stand up and say that this is wrong. They mostly will chose not to say anything.

[hmkpoker]

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I expect the usual Bush apologists to start spinning away.
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You won't hear it on here because the Bush lovers won't stand up and say that this is wrong. They mostly will chose not to say anything.

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How many Bush lovers do we actually have here anyway?

[Myrtle]

Watching the news of this deal unfold as I write this.....

I don't know whether to chalk this up to absolute incompetency and horrible judgment, or something more diabolical.

Whatever it is, it is truly disturbing.

[HDPM]

I read the Atlantic article about Pakistan's nuclear program right before this news broke. Shipping through Dubai seemed standard. Scary.

[bobman0330]

OK guys, there are 2.5 million people in the UAE. Despite being overwhelmingly Arab, they are actually not all terrorists. It would be both disgusting and terribly damaging to our current image war in the Middle East to disrupt this deal solely because the buyers are Arabs.

[Rick Nebiolo]

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I read the Atlantic article about Pakistan's nuclear program right before this news broke. Shipping through Dubai seemed standard. Scary.

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Hope you read both parts. I'd post links but often the Atlantic articles require a subscription.

Not sure a terrorist would need to offload the container into a port though. You can do "a bit" of damage just bringing a ship with a container nuke near the dock that is also near a populated area.

~ Rick

[dustybottoms]

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OK guys, there are 2.5 million people in the UAE. Despite being overwhelmingly Arab, they are actually not all terrorists. It would be both disgusting and terribly damaging to our current image war in the Middle East to disrupt this deal solely because the buyers are Arabs.

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Understand something. I'm not saying that this deal absolutely should never happen. That's not what the members of Congress who are speaking out are saying. What we are saying is that this deal may have been allowed to go through without due diligence with regard to potential security problems, and financial transparency.

[HDPM]

no, just one part. I don't subscribe but happened to buy the mag. Sort of dumb I don't subscribe because the mag is excellent

[HDPM]

We wouldn't let a non-Arab country like Iran do this do you think?