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Originally Posted by Linkster
they wont have to dress anyone as bin laden - he'll appear again with a "terrorist strike" before the end of September this year - has to - the Repubs cant afford to lose congress and the Prezs numbers are running way to low to support reelections of his governors and congress - they need something for the "country" to look up to them for taking command over and making the pathetic voters feel "good"
That thing about the port deal is a sham - as soon as that panel in the house did that the Senate blocked any votes on it - so it wont be going anywhere until they can get their ducks in a row to try to come out smelling like a rose (its election year - these guys know exactly what they are doing and they just want to make sure the Rep. side gets the glory for this one)
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I am actually very glad that this is being blocked by the Senate. And I am no non-thinking, follow the crowd kind of guy. I personally detest Bush and what he is doing to our country, but with America's image as bad as it is right now, looking like a paranoid country that has a deep hatred for Muslims is not exactly the way we need to be portraying ourselves right now.
I like the attention the port security (lack of) is getting right now, but I'd also like to see every power company on the grid up its security and esp nuclear power plants which are sadly under protected.
By telling an honest Arab company/country that choose to 'side with us' after 9/11 that the deal that was approved by the exsperts in our own government is now not going to go through and for no other REAL reason then a paranoid distrust of Muslims will definitely have the effect of turning moderate Muslim countries against us. We lose what friends we have in the middle east that we NEED to actually honest to god find and fight terrorism
its ugly, but its a fact, we cannot do this or we are going to come out much much worse off then if we just let this deal go through
not to mention the divesting from all the other friendly countries that will HAVE to occur as soon as this passes IF it passes.