We are already in a war not of our choosing. But our only choice now is to fight for victory. I'll be damned if our leaders will do backroom deals with our enemies for dollar gain while our troops are fighting them on the frontlines of the GWOT.
Quite apart from the fact that our troops go to the Emirates not to fight the Arabs there but for R&R (especially Dubai), your comment that the President is selling out the military for personal dollar gain is despicable. Not even the 'Rats in the Senate would make such a ridiculous charge. Before you smear the personal honor of our President, you had better provide evidence to back it up. Otherwise, keep your vile hatred to yourself. It soils this fine site.
Fine, but our leaders are not doing backroom deals, and there is no dollar gain.
We are NOT selling anything. The U.S. had NOTHING to do with this deal.
A foreign company is buying another foreign company. We simply analysed that sale and determined that our security would not be effected by the sale.
It is interesting watching the replay of Neal Cavuto's program -- all the guys there are intimitatly familiar with UAE and the companies and all of them agree this is an absurd argument. Maybe that is Bush's big mistake, looking at this as a common-sense business deal rather than seeing how the democrats could turn it into a political attack.
One guy pointed out that the British company is selling because they don't want to invest any more money in security, while the DP World company has promised millions in new spending on security. So it could make us all safer.