Security Remains Issue as Ports Deal is Sunk

Security?? not to worry, the renewed Patriot Act will save you. Just because it puts handcuffs on real Americans before it does terrorists doesn't mean you're not secure. ell, you're in handcuffs, you're secure. ;)

Democrats also pledged to halt the takeover and clamored for a vote in the Senate. They sought political advantage from the issue by trying to narrow a polling gap with the GOP on issues of national security.

Sebi
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More fearmongering on all sides, but I think the Republicans use it better in more ways then one. Which are you more afraid of? Republican or Democrat?

Sebi wrote:

Sebi
http://www.onearticles.net

I clicked on your source and found nothing but a header page date Dec 12, 2005... which I believe predates the history of this dispute.

I am trying to locate the site to send a letter regarding illigal immigrants and also the port issue with the House of Representitives.
Thank You
Shaaron Henry

I am trying to locate the site to send a letter regarding illigal immigrants and also the port issue with the House of Representitives. I attended a Wake Up America meeting last nite. They need everyone to contact the House of Representitives, but unable to locate this on the enternet.

Sharon Henry wrote:

I am trying to locate the site to send a letter regarding illigal immigrants and also the port issue with the House of Representitives. I attended a Wake Up America meeting last nite. They need everyone to contact the House of Representitives, but unable to locate this on the enternet.

do a search and ask for USHouse.gov and then look for the Congressman you want to send your note to, or you can send it to all of them; male or female.

Iran is the last Persian Gulf state without a permanent American military presence. Soon we will have military bases there, too. I wonder why we are doing such a thing? Persian Gulf oil is not all that important to us (we acquire less than 15% of our oil from there and we KNOW that American blood is not worth spending to get it). Do you think it might be something else? Something like big money for instance? I believe that is the case. A billion dollars A DAY goes to Persian Gulf oil (@$60/barrel).
I cringed when I saw on TV the President holding hands and kissing a Saudi potentate. I did not like the feeling I got from that scene so I decided to find out how much money Saudi potentates are worth. The Forbes list of the world’s billionaires shows: Kuwait with 4, Saudi Arabia 11, the United Arab Emirates 5, Iran 1, Iraq and all the rest zero. I know the list is not all-inclusive, because for some reason the Rothschild’s and the Rockefellers aren’t on it, but I figure there must be more than 21 billionaires in the Persian Gulf. A billion dollars A DAY GOES into the area. The Persian Gulf got to be rolling with billionaires. And as for Afghanistan, no telling how many potentates are there, they provide the world with at least half its poppy requirements.
Billionaires are a group unto themselves, not creed nor nationality bound. A billionaire is someone with unlimited funds period! And there is nothing a billionaire cannot buy, and that includes people. Think of the feeling we get when a policeman directs us to do something (and we do it without hesitation), that’s the kind of power billionaires have over people.
The billionaires we created in the Gulf are making real trouble for us.
In the old Beau Geste days (days of the French Foreign Legion) oil was not in contention, but France posted Foreign Legion forts all over the Arab world. It certainly was not for oil rights. It was to comfort rich Arab potentates(the Makhzen). I’m not rewriting history here because it is repeating itself. We went into Iraq when most thought it was a mistake to think you could force a mind change on a population of twenty five million Iraqi’s. We were told by the military that it would require hundreds of thousands of troops in order to have any chance at all. Yet we went in with only a hundred and fifty thousand troops. Right up to the last election we were told that it was enough. Why do you suppose that was? We pretty much knew that it was not enough by a long shot. But, aha! We have permanent bases there now, and a hundred and fifty thousand troops are more than enough to keep them there. We did it not for the cockamamie idea that we could force the Iraqi’s to think like us, or for oil, but by the power of money.
Today there are a lot of people with unlimited funds controlling our destiny. Percentage wise more so than in France prior to their revolution, or any other revolution for that matter.
We were all taught the lesson that “money is the root of all evil”. And by the same token,“history repeats itself”. Here is another one “we’ve made our bed and now we must lie in it”.
But hey, we don’t have to shoot thousands of Muslims, haven’t you figured out yet that our radical Muslim fears would evaporate if we were to tell all them potentates that if they don’t turn out Osama and hang all of those Mullahs that teach American hatred that we would turn them all out in the street?
How long do you think it would take them potentates to turn out Osama if we were to have all those troops there now, and those to be there soon, bivouac in the Afghanistan poppy fields, bring the poppy potentates to show them the really, really long deep latrines, and tell them we stay until they cough up Osama?
And for icing on the cake, tell Pakistan’s Mushraff that its Osama or his nuclear facilities go up in smoke?
“ Ah, we send them to school, buy their books, and they tear the pages out!”(That ones mine).