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March 9, 2006

Make the Issue Go Away

"DP World will transfer fully the U.S. operations ... to a United States entity," the firm's top executive, H. Edward Bilkey, said in an announcement that capped weeks of controversy.

"This should make the issue go away," said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.

Good. All I have wanted is for this issue to go away. Who wants to talk about port security, anyway? Isn't there something on TV? And who wants to figure out the good Arabs from the bad Arabs? They all boycott Israel, so it's much easier to write them all off as terrorists - we just won't do any business with any of them.

(I just had a great idea for a T-shirt: Boycott 'em all, let God sort them out. If it can't fit on a T-shirt, it's not a position worth taking.)

Just so long as the port thingy is run by Americans, I can sleep well. Thank you, Senator Frist, for making this whole issue just go away.

Wulf Posted by Wulf on March 9, 2006 at 08:53 PM

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Give the ports to Halliburton, and let the libs howl.

Posted by: The Sanity Inspector at March 12, 2006 3:03 PM

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