Posted on 02/16/2006 5:21:05 PM PST by Dane
You are right about that part and I stand corrected. However his claims of not knowing about the CFIUS deliberations were not credible.
JMO, chuckie schumer would be screaming 100 times louder if Halliburton took over.
I have no idea why there is not an American company that could take over.
What can be done to stop this? If we let 6 major ports be controlled by a terrorist-sponsoring nation, we're not serious about the War on Terror.
Allowing this to transpire is utter foolishness.
Are they holding hands or is one of them slipping a little something to the other?
Come right in with nukes,we have your prey rugs on the
dock so you can prey to allah before setting off the
nuke oh we also have some tea incase your thirsty.Oh
do you want some signs to show you the best place to set
your nuke off.We aim to please.
"If we let 6 major ports be controlled by a terrorist-sponsoring nation, we're not serious about the War on Terror."
Good job that's not happening then. The control of the ports isn't changing and P+O cannot really be considered a 'terrorist-sponsering nation'.
Err Dubai. P+O of course would not be a nation at all. Oh, it's way to early!
YOU!
Do you ACTUALLY believe that Multi-Billion dollar deals with Multi-National Companies MAGICALLY occur AFTER certain players are bought by one of the interested parties? That they ONLY take one year?
Just how long does a Billion dollar deal take, Dane?
Because I'd bet that this buyout was proposed, started, researched, and negotiated when Snow was still head of CSX!
But not in your Kool-Aid addled world! Multi-National deals and Billion dollar buyouts ONLY occur when GWB and his sock-puppets say they do!
Wow, you really do NOT have a clue of what you speak...
NOW IT IS STARTING TO MAKE SENSE, AND IT REALLY MAKES ME SICK!
January 13, 2003, John Snow, CEO of CSX leaves and Bush nominates John Snow to be Secretary of the treasury
December 9, 2004, CSX World Terminals is purchased by DPW
January 24, 2006, David Sanborn leaves DPW and joins Whitehouse as new administrator of the Maritime Administration in the Transportation Department
Present, the fight whether to allow DPW into 6 US Ports
It's hard to be logical with the Kool Aid cultists..
And I have concluded there is little difference between the Treasury Department and Foggy Bottom when it comes to national security and protecting America's best interests. What a sorry assed collection of useless bureaucrats.
"Why can't I QUIT you?!"
Correct. But then that's just Dane being Dane.
http://webnewsroom.blogspot.com/2006/02/re-portgate.html
For once, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) is right about something. I guess it just goes to show that even a blind bird catches a worm once in a while.
What Schumer is right about is his opposition to the deal that would allow Dubai Ports World, a company based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to gain control of six major American ports through its purchase of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Staem Navigation Company, which currently runs the ports: New York, Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, and Miami.
The obvious question is, aren't there any American companies capable of running these ports? And the more important question is, Are we serious about the War on Terror? We have left our borders wide open for anyone (including terrorists) to come through and now we are turning control of six major ports over to a country that sponsors terrorism.
The deal has been approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, but Schumer, along with Senators Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Representaties Vito Fossella (R-NY), Christopher Shays (R-Ct.), and Mark Foley (R-Fla.), is trying to stop the transaction. REpresentaigve Peter King (R-NY), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, has urged the Bush Administration to reconsider.
New York City Council members of both parties have spoken out against the deal. "On its face, this looks like insanity to me," the Republican minority leader of the City Council, James Oddo, said. The chairman of the Council's Public Safety Committee, Democrat Peter Vallone, said that the deal "raises some legitimate concerns."
The Bush administration considers the UAE a key ally in the War on Terror, but the UAE has been a sponsor of terrorism. It was the home of Marwan al-Shehi, one of the 19 hijackers who killed 3,000 people on September 11, 2001. Other hijackers travelled through the UAE. The UAE was an important financial base for the September 11 hijackers. The country is a transit point for Al Qaeda. It has been a financier of Al Qaeda. It continues to regard the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan and is militantly anti-Israel. The CIA has identified the UAE as a major center for drug running and money laundering. It also has close ties to Iran.
The UAE is a federation of seven Arab emirates on the Arabian peninsula.
As Rep. Foley has said, "If our ports are the most vulnerable targets for terrorism and if we are at war, as the president says, we should be overly critical of handing over the management of our ports to any foreign countries, post 9/11."
What happens if nuclear materials pass through one of these ports? How will the UAE direct its employees to deal with that? The threat to our national security is clear.
That is why these Senators and Representatives are right to speak out against the transfer of control of our ports to UAE control, just as Red Chinese control of the Panama Canal poses a threat to our national security.
Can we afford to turn control of key ports over to a company controlled by a terrorist-sponsoring government?
I am sorry, but you simply incorrect on all of your points. With all due respect, you are uninformed, nativistic, and prejudiced. Thousands of Muslims have died as our allies resisting Islamofascist extremism. Thousands more died resisting Communism. The kind of attitude you exemplify will simply drive more Muslims into the camp of the extremists.
The ignorance and childish naivete of people like you threatens my security. Kumbaya is not a strategy against a ruthless enemy.
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