Why is Congress fighting so hard to save the UAE ports deal?

cantstandbush

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Tue Mar-07-06 12:38 PM
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Why is Congress fighting so hard to save the UAE ports deal?

Why does this statement bother me? Does it bother anyone else?

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MadMaddie

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Tue Mar-07-06 12:40 PM
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1. Yes...it bothers me....

once again it sounds like money is passing hands....

What other motives do they have.....

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The Backlash Cometh

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Tue Mar-07-06 12:41 PM
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2. They're easily bought. They're just shaking their money makers.

Boom cha ka la ka la ka, Boom cha ka la ka la ka, Ching-Ching, Ching-Ching.

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Avalux

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Tue Mar-07-06 12:41 PM
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3. Because they're all in this together.

Edited on Tue Mar-07-06 12:42 PM by sparosnare

Congress has become an ineffectual branch of our government - they are all traitors as far as I'm concerned for not doing what they swore to do when they took office (regardless of political party).

We might as well just face the fact that our government and our elected officials are pro-corporation, pro-imperialism. Fuck the people.

If I sound worn out by all of the bullshit, I am. Seems we have no one to fight for us save a few brave souls like Conyers and Feingold.

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Beelzebud

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Tue Mar-07-06 12:42 PM
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4. Because they are free-trade global capitalists.

Regular people like you are I, or the 3000 that died in the WTC for that matter, mean very little to them.

They are the masters, we are the serfs.

At least thats how they see it.

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Jacobin

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Tue Mar-07-06 12:44 PM
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5. $$$$$$$$$$

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Solly Mack

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Tue Mar-07-06 12:44 PM
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6. a couple of reasons I can think of

1 - if they just allow the ports deal then they don't have to talk about the UAE hijackers of 9-11. And yes, they would rather allow the deal than to bring up the whole UAE/SA hijackers - yet everybody but those two countries gets invaded. The Iraq invasion is the elephant in the room with the ports deal

2 - Ka-Ching!

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meegbear

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Tue Mar-07-06 12:44 PM
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7. Because they have no choice ...

actually they do, but they don't know what to do.

A majority of people have already said they are against the deal. But also recall:

"The Republican resistance is even more impressive given an Insight magazine report that Rove has threatened to put any Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee who votes against the President on his blacklist, denying them political and financial support."

<snip>

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0211-22.htm

This tactic I'm sure is applicable to all things *. So who do you support?

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Saphire

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Tue Mar-07-06 12:46 PM
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8. I think it's a done deal, and now they are covering their ass.

Edited on Tue Mar-07-06 12:48 PM by lady of texas

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moobu2

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Tue Mar-07-06 12:55 PM
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11. yes, it's over and done with

the polititions are just looking for way to save face.

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moobu2

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Tue Mar-07-06 12:53 PM
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9. It also has a lot to do with our huge national debt

Our debt financiers wouldn�t be happy if the deal fell apart etc...

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leftofthedial

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Tue Mar-07-06 12:53 PM
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10. corporations like having organized crime running their ports efficiently

and, um, reliably

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Norquist Nemesis

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Tue Mar-07-06 12:55 PM
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12. Just a guess....blackmail

The Republicans sure wouldn't want to be tagged as the party of "no" when Bush is in office.

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adigal

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Tue Mar-07-06 01:09 PM
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13. This administration and the republicans in Congress

are selling our security to the men Bush holds hands with - that's why, and if this is not enough to see how these people don't give a damn about us, then nothing will wake up 'mericans.

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