[jbstrick]

capslock?

[nuffsenuff]

I think you should stop beating around the bush and just tell us how you really feel.

No games.

[dfwgator]

Don't mince words, tell us what you really think.

[When do we get liberated?]

sorry, I have been snowmobiling for a few days. What happened?

[Stellar Dendrite]

WHOA DUDE EASY ON THE CAPS

[The_Victor]

Stop shouting, it hurts my eyes.

[Not A Snowbird]

One word... decaf.

[beaureguard]

Well, alrighty then...

[Michael Goldsberry]

Quite so.

But please,

Put

The

Cookie

Down.

[bayourant]

I hate to be the voice of sanity in this debate but here it goes. We do have Arab allies. In fact we used their countries during the Iraq liberation. Bush does have a point. Now I know its all fun to play the "they" game but time for reasoned argument to come in.

[usurper]

IT IS THE MILLIONS OF ELDERLY THAT CONTROL WHAT IS GOING ON THIS COUNTRY, NOT JACK ABRAMOFF OR THE OTHERS.

Humm, are you suggesting that the AARP is secretly behind the port deal?

[Redcloak]

Threads like this rarely end without gunfire.

[Charles Henrickson]

is that you, e e cummings?

[steelcurtain]

You couldn't post this on one of the many threads already existing on this subject?

[Charles Henrickson]

TRY THE BOLD AND THE FONT SIZE TOO!

[Dog Gone]

Which county do you live in?

[livius]

Please,you're freaking out and freaking us out. What's your DU name? Only a DUer could be such a nutbag.

[TankerKC]

WE HAVE A PLAN TO STOP IT.

Will we have to wait for you to develop communications skills?

[Luis Gonzalez]

Picked a bad week to quit amphetamines?

[Phsstpok]

I hate to tell you this but you are brain dead on this issue.

The company in question already controls almost all of the ports that our shipping comes from. The ones they don't are controlled by the People Liberation Army (Red China).

Our entire strategy for import/export control, particularly post 9/11, is to inspect the material AT THE PORT OF DEPARTURE.  This company has been very good at cooperating with our inspection and documentation regime.  As these companies go they're probably one of the good guys (doesn't mean that there aren't people who could find a way to exploit this relationship, but it's not the company itself we need to worry about).

You may or may not be right that letting the UAE company own the accounting systems for these American ports (and that's what this really is about) but if you're right, you're about 10 years too late.

Where were you when folks like this gained control of the points of origin for what we import?