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Nbadan
02-21-2006, 08:39 PM
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"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. But if they pass a law, I'll deal with it with a veto."

Bush says Dubai port deal should go for forward
21 Feb 2006 20:41:04 GMT
Source: Reuters


ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, Feb 21 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Tuesday that a deal for a state-owned Dubai company to manage major U.S. ports should go forward and will not jeopardize U.S. security.

Bush told reporters traveling back to Washington with him from Colorado that he would veto legislation to stop the deal from going through.

"After careful review by our government, I believe the transaction ought to go forward," Bush said. He added that if the U.S. Congress passed a law to stop the deal, "I'll deal with it with a veto."

Alert Net (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/WBT004834.htm)

Even hard-core conservatives are dumbfounded by Dubya's stand on this issue.
exstatic
02-21-2006, 10:15 PM
Congress need to remind him what time it is. It sounds like they're going to. Several GOP members are supposedly sponsoring bills to at least stop it long enough to investigate it. Shrub says he'll veto it, but if he does, and the GOP is sponsoring them, his veto will be overriden, and the lame duck period would start immediately. I think Congress as a whole is getting sick of his King George act.
scott
02-22-2006, 10:43 PM
Bush is actually right on this one. Congress, on both sides of the isle, is just politicking to polls on their stances.
ChumpDumper
02-22-2006, 11:15 PM
Give Bushie a break. He approved of this deal without even knowing about it.

In secret.

He's amazing!
JohnnyMarzetti
02-22-2006, 11:57 PM
Bush is actually right on this one. Congress, on both sides of the isle, is just politicking to polls on their stances.

He's so right he didn't even know about it. :rolleyes
Vashner
02-23-2006, 12:03 AM
Rope a dope.
JoeChalupa
02-23-2006, 09:05 AM
We'll be okay. It really isn't nothing new.
Spurminator
02-23-2006, 10:23 AM
I think a lot of the outcry here stems from the fact that a lot of people in this country didn't know that the ports were privately operated in the first place (Bush included, no doubt.)

I can't say I'm comfortable with this but maybe it will serve as a wakeup call for port security.
JoeChalupa
02-23-2006, 10:27 AM
What I don't get is that Bush was saying he would veto any bill trying to stop this when at the time he didn't even know about it.
Sec24Row7
02-23-2006, 11:29 AM
I bet you he knew about it before anyone here did.

I bet you he knew about it before 99% of the writers writing about it and 100% of the senators bitching about it.
JoeChalupa
02-23-2006, 12:39 PM
Then why did he say he didn't?

Are you calling him a liar? A flip-flopper?