You are right. How did Bush let this one go? I'm not a republican but of late have voted that way out of concern on national security. If this is not an issue to the Republicans anymore, an issue which got them in office, then my vote will go elsewhere. Bush's amnesty program with border patrol taking shots at them is not alright with me. This deal on the ports not alright with me either. I am not a republican stooge. Someone should advice him more wisely or perhaps the money is more important to him from this port deal.
Bush isn't getting a dime from the UAE based DWI buying the British P&O company. The UAE isn't buying our ports. They can't. They're buying a British operations company that conducts operations at the ports such as off-loading containers, etc. The ports still belong to the US. And any of the ports can opt to use a different operating company other than P&O if they're not comfortable with the DWI buy-out. This is one of the most misrepresented stories in years. We can argue I guess that it's not good to have a UAE-based company taking over port operations from this British company, but let's be accurate about what's going on. And by the way, American employees of P&O will continue to work at the ports that decide to keep the DWI operating company in place.