Worried about terrorists? By God the White House has ya Covered

[Erick G]

this is getting ridiculous
Why dont they just dress someone ala bin laden and parade him on tv.

[Maj. Stress]

At least there is some signs of intelligent life in DC
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060308/...NlYwMlJVRPUCUl
GOP House Panel Votes to Block Ports Deal

[MrYum]

Unfuckingbelievable

[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)

[spazlabz]

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)

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.

[Linkster]

Actually Ive never had any ill feelings about this company running things other than I wish the Mafia still owned the piers - then there wouldnt be a security problem at all - but its kinda hard to justify the outcry on this one when we already have China and Saudi Arabia running other ports in the US - just something that someone hung a pin on for the "news media"(yeah - they certainly aint reporters) to have a field day with to divert attention hopefully from another little more serious problem in Iraq - just another fun time provided by Rove and Associates.

As far as the security at Nuke plants - having worked at them for many years I kinda agree - the security forces suck and any real determined force could walk in there with no problem - but also knowing the workings and physics real well about a nuclear plant - I have no fears even if they did as there is nothing there that would cause any real harm to anyone - even if they managed to drain the entire fuel pool they would only kill themselves and a few workers at the plant - those things are so well shielded and so many (no personnel required) safeguards that you could walk into any of the office buildings on site with a full meltdown in progress and never be affected.
Unfortunately a few press and activist groups tended to paint a little different picture and got a little overboard during three mile island where the worst that happened is a person inside the plant got the amount of radiation equal to having one extra lung xray that year
Kinda helps to not believe everything you hear the press (why does that keep recurring as a theme?) put out in their scare tactics.