Remember over this last decade and a half when Conservatives would repeat over and over again the “Liberal” name? Something like: “Liberals are doing it again.”

Well since Conservatives have taken over all the past bullshit has been made clear to voters: Conservatives stand for enormous Government interference in personal lives EXCEPT when it comes to making life better for the vast majority.

I hope we can all be disciplined enough to simply repeat the Conservative name over and over again:

The Conservatives are doing it again: Profits over security.

Profits over everything...Government over everyone.

Let's think about this for a minute. Mohammed Atta was identified how many times by Able Danger? And all the other hijackers? Colleen Rowley was told to stand down, Sibil Edmonds was fired, the Bin Ladens were rushed out of the US without being interrogated. We attacked a completely non-threatening sovereign state for bogus reasons. Now we are going to have a foreign company from an area strongly associated with terrorism guard our ports while most of our military is over seas, the Gulf has been destroyed, the elections are rigged and most of the liberals live on either coast. Anybody else feeling a little paranoid? How does the Arab States of America grab ya.

Or, is that what we're supposed to think so we won't object when they start rounding up Muslims for those shiny new KBR detention centers?

I don't trust these people at all.

WASHINGTON - Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff on Sunday defended the government's security review of an Arab company given permission to take over operations at six major U.S. ports.

"We make sure there are assurances in place, in general, sufficient to satisfy us that the deal is appropriate from a national security standpoint," Chertoff said on ABC's "This Week."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060219/ap_on_go_pr_wh/port_security

Yeah, let's listen to the guy who couldn't even get accurate information about the levees around New Orleans. And maybe when a radioactive shipment comes in, Chertoff will do nothing just like during Katrina. Guess I shouldn't have said Chertoff did nothing, he did what the Bush administration told him to do - shift blame - it's the only thing the administration can do!

"They want the federal government controlling Social Security

- George W. Bush in a debate in St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000

maybe Russia. Only 3-5% of the containers get checked 4 years after 911, how would the UAE do any worse? If the UAE has the financial ties to the major international terrorist networks, it makes it less likely that the ports will be blown-up since the UAE would lose money, unless they had really generous insurance--maybe from the US Treasury.

It's all part of Bush's plan to privatize everything from the American people.

They ALL know, including Bush. Anyone who supports this also supports terrorism.

From the 9/11 Commission Report:

The Desert Camp, February 1999.

During the winter of 1998-99, intelligence reported that Bin Ladin frequently visited a camp in the desert, adjacent to a larger hunting camp in Helmand Province of Afghanistan, used by visitors from a Gulf state. Public sources have stated that these visitors were from the United Arab Emirates. At the beginning of February, Bin Ladin was reportedly located there, and apparently remained for more than a week. This was not in an urban area, so the risk of collateral damage was minimal. Intelligence provided a detailed description of the camps. National technical intelligence confirmed the description of the larger camp, and showed the nearby presence of an official aircraft of the UAE. The CIA received reports that Bin Ladin regularly went from his adjacent camp to the larger camp where he visited with Emiratis. The location of this larger camp was confirmed by February 9, but the location of Bin Ladin's quarters could not be pinned down so precisely.

*bolding mine*

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And our legislators voted away our Constitutional protections for this?

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Bush has just announced that he will veto any bill that blocks his UAE deal on the ports. Also, the deal involves that the UAE will control two ports in charge of sending 40% of our military supplies overseas.

like Frist and Hastert, I'd say we need to look more closely at who Bush is working for. If they are saying they knew nothing about this and trying to stop it, we have to wonder who came up with this "brilliant" idea. My huess is they live in Saudi Arabia, but often use the surname "Bush."

I am sick of Bush and Dick trying to destroy this country. If they are so into the 'war' in Iraqmire, perhaps they should go rule over there and we could get someone decent to clean up this mess that they have caused. Three more years of this is going to put us at great risk and danger. Bush must have fell off the wagon by the decisions he's been making. As far as 'dick' Cheney, all he cares about is getting richer and richer. Those two can care less about the American people while they are spending billions in foreign countries. Something is definately wrong with this picture.

on his show had gotten hold of a copy of a secret service report that claimed that Cheney speech was slurred and his actions erratic up to and including the time of the shooting.

That Cheney immediately went for drinks following the shooting incident, could have been as much for raising his blood alcohol level about the norm as giving him a morale boost.

This would certainly be consistant with the delay in getting local law enforcement in to question Cheney.

It is, to say the least, suspicious given Cheney's background with booze.

I do know that when the good 'ol boys' up here in the Orygun mts go hunting/fishing, they take plenty of 6 packs and bottles of booze with them for a weekend in the woods.