DP WORLD EXECUTIVE NOMINATED FOR PRESITIGOUS US GOVT POSITION (Dubai Ports World)

Dubai Ports World ^ | 24 January 2006 | Tom Mollo

[tioga]

Tiger Woods is a private individual with no national security aspirations. He can golf in whatever tournament he wants. He is a private citizen.

[md2576]

Copy link to if you wish.

[oceanview]

fine, give him a fair hearing. but you seem to want to make his hearing consist of questions like "what did you get your kids for Xmas".

I want to know what role he played in securing US government approval for allowing these contracts to pass to the UAE controlled company, as a result of their acquisition.

[tioga]

-a key issue in the sale? ....I know it was a private sale; was it contingent upon US approval? That I haven't seen answered yet. Guess I have more reading to do on this subject.

[Dane]

We don't care about the money at all. We care about a company owned by a Muslim govenment acquiring large, sensitive holdings in this country and having one of their executives appointed to a near-cabinet-level position

Did you read the link in reply #80.

I can understand your qualms, but I can't understand people jumping on the hillary/schumer bandwagon, with their lies that they are taking over the ports, when a tiny bit of research will show they are not and that DHS is responsible for allsecurtiy, not DPWorld.

Heck I would be more concerned if a French company bought P&O, given their backstabbing ways.

[Das Outsider]

Tiger Woods is a golfer. He administers nothing of interest to national security. Nobody cares who pays him. Nobody cares about Tiger Woods at all.

This is akin to the Chewbacca Defense:

"Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookie, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does NOT MAKE SENSE! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does NOT MAKE SENSE! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, [approaches and softens] does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does NOT MAKE SENSE!

If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests. "

It's just a matter of trading one red herring for another.

[oceanview]

of course it was. Treasury approved it (with review from other agencies), not the private sector aspect of this deal - they approved the contracts for the US ports passing to DPW as a result of their acquisition. what their basis was for approving DPW, we do not yet know.

[oceanview]

I'm on the Coburn/Santorum/Peter King/Graham bandwagon.

[Dane]

Tiger Woods is a private individual with no national security aspirations. He can golf in whatever tournament he wants. He is a private citizen

With world wide name recognition and who is giving legitimacy to the UAE by playing golf there.

You all should be at least consistent.

[Stellar Dendrite]

LOL

[tioga]

I am consistant. There is nothing wrong with foreign countries.....only the ones who want to control our ports. They will be involved in our national security at major ports. They will be privy to our national security secrets in our ports.

[montag813]

He's a great saxophonist, but how does that qualify Sanborn to run Maritme operations?

[fella]

What are the 6 major US ports?

[montag813]

All you need to know about "why"...

[gotribe]

Isn't Dubai where Bin Laden went for treatments and supposedly was met by a CIA operative while in the hospital prior to 911? Or was that debunked?

[Gritty]

The company is owned by the UAE, which makes it a state run company (owned by the Sheik). The UAE has less than 1 million native people, but twice that many foreigners live there. It is a sheikdom federation run by some of the richest sheiks in the world. With over a 96% Muslim population and a judicial system partially secular and partially under Sharia law, it is a totally Muslim owned and controlled country.

We may be forced to buy oil from muslim potentates, but we shouldn't have to buy our own port services from them as well. I would rather let Donald Duck run our ports.

[Dane]

The company is owned by the UAE, which makes it a state run company (owned by the Sheik). The UAE has less than 1 million native people, but twice that many foreigners live there. It is a sheikdom federation run by some of the richest sheiks in the world. With over a 96% Muslim population and a judicial system partially secular and partially under Sharia law, it is a totally Muslim owned and controlled country

I've read from people on FR who have been there that it is one of the most westernized of the Gulf states, heck even Tiger Woods plays golf there.

They ain't saudi arabia and according to reports I've heard, wish to build a modern society much different than the iranian mullahs.

[Stellar Dendrite]

"I would rather let Donald Duck run our ports."

you are right


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1580971/posts
UAE, Palestine to set up a joint investment firm



http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1580589/posts

"And while the Bush folks now consider the UAE a major ally in the war against terror, the Treasury Department has been stonewalled by the emirates, and other Arab countries, in trying to track Osama bin Laden's bank accounts."

[OpusatFR]

Well, Dane, it makes me gag to think we have to rely on these people, but the simple fact despite your laudatory hoopla about the proposal is that this is payback.

It doesn't change. Xerxes, Caesar, Bush...the names change but the world doesn't.

It wouldn't be any different under the democrats since the game was already being played the same way...

[Gritty]

They ain't saudi arabia and according to reports I've heard, wish to build a modern society much different than the iranian mullahs.

Well, I have spent some time in the UAE as well. It is a thoroughly Muslim country, ruled from the top down. Granted, it has some western-leaning ways, as it was owned by the British at one time. No, they are not quite Saudi Arabia, but they are closer than kissin' cousins. The people live under Sharia Law - which ought to tell you something about the personal freedoms people have and the kind of society they have. If you are a Muslim, you better not even think about leaving Islam, much less talk openly about it!

So, where do their real loyalties lie, besides the Almighty Dollar and the furtherance of their personal power?

I'll tell you what. I will agree to let the UAE run our ports when they agree to let Billy Graham run an open crusade at the Dubai Racing Track. OK? Oh, and they also have to let the Southern Baptist Convention finance and build a big church (at least the size of the mosque just south of Toledo, Ohio) down near the Dubai Gold Souk and open it to everybody, not just foreigners.

If they go along with those conditions, I'll gladly let them run our ports if they can do the job and are the lowest bidder. If not, they can just eat their oil money for all I care.