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I didn't think so.
"What did Chuck Schumer and Peter King have to say about those COSCO and Unocal acquisitions?"
COSCO attempted to negotiate a long term lease of the port of Long Beach during the Clinton administration, but the deal was squelched due to public outcry. China attempted to purchase Unocal just last year, but the deal was squelched due to public outcry. Now, a company run by Muslims is attempting to purchase operational control over six of our largest ports. Ports have long been considered a weakness due to the near-impossibility of inspecting every container passing through those ports. I hope this deal, too, is squelched due to public outcry. If you wish to view this purely as some sort of partisan political ploy, you may want to ask yourself why anyone with any political savvy would walk right into such a thing, with the recent Unocal history, plus the Port Of Long Beach history. Somebody's tone deaf here, and it's not the Conservatives who oppose this acquisition.
Mark Foley of Florida is another opponent of this deal. He was responsible for killing the plan to drill off the shore of the continental US as well as ANWR. Has anyone thought that maybe he might have some undisclosed interest in killing this deal too?