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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: puborectalis who wrote (727769)	2/24/2006 1:30:25 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

Calling traitors traitors is always good politics, and makes the domestic enemy ever more transparent. Bush is saving America from Democrats who only want the treachery of Vietnam back...

To: puborectalis who wrote (727769)	2/24/2006 9:40:13 AM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

On the pure merits of this case, the president is right. The port deal should go ahead... As a country, we must not go down this road of global ethnic profiling — looking for Arabs under our beds the way we once looked for commies. If we do — if America, the world's beacon of pluralism and tolerance, goes down that road — we will take the rest of the world with us. We will sow the wind and we will reap the whirlwind. If there were a real security issue here, I'd join the critics. But the security argument is bogus and, I would add, borderline racist. Many U.S. ports are run today by foreign companies, but the U.S. Coast Guard still controls all aspects of port security, entry and exits; the U.S. Customs Service is still in charge of inspecting the containers; and U.S. longshoremen still handle the cargos. The port operator simply oversees the coming and going of ships, making sure they are properly loaded and offloaded in the most cost-effective manner. As my colleague David E. Sanger reported: "Among the many problems at American ports, said Stephen E. Flynn, a retired Coast Guard commander who is an expert on port security at the Council on Foreign Relations, 'who owns the management contract ranks near the very bottom.' " So...even the liberal wienie, Friedcheese thinks the port deal is a good deal.