Puke Meltdown: "DeLay Says Bush Making Mistake on Port"

[FormerRepublican]

"HOUSTON - U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay said Wednesday that President Bush is making a big mistake backing a sale of shipping operations at six major U.S. seaports to a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates.

The former Republican majority leader said the administration's approval of the deal is "pretty outrageous." DeLay made the remarks during a campaign event with Houston real estate executives.

Separately, U.S. Rep. Ted Poe, R-Humble, said he is concerned about Texas ports where military cargo is handled by London-based Peninsular and Oriental, the company to be purchased by the UAE's Dubai Ports World.

Poe said ports in Beaumont and Corpus Christi move military goods, materials and records of which he would not want UAE employees to have access."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060223/ap_on_go_co/port_security_delay_1

One of the VERY few things on which I agree with the Republicans.

If foreign port management isn't a security risk (which I believe it is), was management sold off in war time before Bush? Why didn't we use quasi-allied foreign companies on US soil during WWII? How many of the other ports that are now managed by foreign companies were sold off during the Bush Administration?

Bush's actions just reinforce the impression I have that Bush hates the United States and is very comfortable with the idea of destroying it.

[SHRED]

1. criminal on criminal

A circular firing squad.

[mikeytherat]

2. Fire! Aim! Ready!

mikey_the_rat

[librechik]

3. this issue will separate the xenophobes from the amoral capitalists

in the Republican party. Of course the rabid DeLay is in the xenophobic basket--

it's great for Dems--both sides of the Pukkkes look like shit! And the Dems were totally bypassed. It's gonna be tough to "Abramoff direct" any Dems on this!

[robbedvoter]

7. What a sad statement this is! And me favoring the xenophobes here

doesn't make it any easier!
I noticed this dynamic when someone posted a bunch of freeper reactions here - the only one scratching his head was the "Mexican hater"

[PATRICK]

4. Ah yes, that Bush family past

War profiteering, selling munitions to the Germans during the war, and during WWII continuing to finance the Nazis ideological "business" reasons? or the Bush pals and like minded free trade zealots who not only sold metal to the Japanese that rained back down on our soil at pearl Harbor and later worked on the presidential campaign of George Ist? or the ex-Nazis they employed to help in our democratic elections of that same campaign?

Iran-Contra. The creation of the Islamic fundie groups, the backing of the jihads and Bin Laden, the debacle of deals with oil in the ME?

They have been doing this to America for so long that one must forgive them for thinking this is the "American way". They can't comprehend the belated outrage and they certainly don't expect condemnation or accountability.

They put that all behind them when they got Prescott Bush's death camp proceeds back and used them to cheat their way into the WH.

But Delay and others embattled in their scandals;ls are taking the cue. Puff up the storm and fury and bury everything in the raised dust. And when the dust settles..

You'll have Taliban heroin appearing in NYC, and other things not as important as the business opportunity principle.

[froshty1960]

5. Ceres Gulf

Ceres Gulf, which shares half of the Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal in New Orleans with P&O, was acquired by NYK, a Japanese shipping and logistics company, in 2003.

[liberalpress]

6. which is NOT I believe...

...owned by the Japanese government. But I may be wrong

[froshty1960]

8. You're right

I thought that the Japanese government had a stake in NYK, but I was wrong. My bad. Sorry.