Posted on 02/20/2006 3:14:17 PM PST by Stellar Dendrite
OF course those Americans will be called "traitors" by some on FR.
Pres Bush has a blind spot or should I say an oily spot.
Many fools realize this is not a good deal. Makes you wonder if in the second term the U.S. is up for sale, this and the sale of gov't. lands.
He didn't.
he wouldn't have waited until February 20th of 2006 to write an article expressing his "concerns" about a corporate acquisition that was originally announced in October or November of 2005.
You knew about it last year?
Dane, that you defend this deal tells me all I need to know about whether it is at all in the security interest of the United States or just in one world corporate interests.
This from "Financial Times".
The Bush administration will also call on State and Defence department officials to persuade legislators that the US has a “long-standing” and “good” relationship with the United Arab Emirates.
Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state, who will be meeting Gulf foreign ministers this week in Abu Dhabi, said on Friday that Abu Dhabi was “a very good friend” to the US and that the deal needed “better explanation”.
I don't think so. Running ports is something Americans still know how to do. Especially now that it's more or less computerized.
Besides, you forgot your argument that "the port operator doesn't really do anything but supervise the longshoremen."
Other than the sanction of the Court, which will be sought at a hearing expected to be held on 27 February 2006, all conditions to the completion of the Offer, the Concessionary Stock Acquisition and the Preferred Stock Cancellation have now been satisfied or waived. Therefore, it is expected that completion of the Acquisition will occur on 2 March 2006.
Democrats are terrible on national security but without the media the public will never know.
Nancy pelosi will be the next speaker of the house and hillary rodham clinton will be the next president.
When that happens thank Lou Dobbs for never going after democrats.
Bush gets no credit for the good moves he has made on security. And when dems stop wiretapping, fund hamas, close guantonoma bay, stop extraodinary renditions, stop predator drone attacks in pakistan, run from iraq and do a whole lot more you can thank lou dobbs and pelosi.
You had the vote in the house will republicans voting for a fence and dems voting against it and yet republicans get blamed.
Damn the media for turning this country into pelosiland. She is going to take san francisco nationwide.
Bring her on already because we are witnessing a death by a thousand cuts by the national media.
Then when pelosi and hillary rodham act like the liberals they are the media will blame bush. We will also have to put up with higher taxes, assault weapons ban, no oil drillign, ruth bader ginsberg supreme court judges.
Until the conservatives revolt and take over the main stream media we are destined to san francisco going nationwide under pelosi and hillary rodham.
We are destined to have a president like al gore who goes to saudi arabia and screams how the us doesn't give enough visas to the saudis.
DID JACK CAFFERTY HAVE AN E-MAIL QUESTION WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT AL GORE VISITING SAUDI ARABIA AND BASHING THE US ABOUT THEIR TREATMENT OF ARABS.
NO THEY WERE WORRIED ABOUT CHENEY. THEY PAID NO ATTENTION TO GORE. IF BUSH HAD DONE THAT YOU WOULDN'T HAVE HEARD THE END OF IT. GORE GOT NO PRESS.
OUR MEDIA IS UNDEMOCRATIC.
No they do not own squat yet.
Yes. There's been a bunch of mergers and acquisitions in the maritime shipping industry over the last year or so, and this was one of them.
They are traitors, free traitors.
Anybody who puts their pocketbook interests ahead of national security is a traitor.
Yes they do. The P&O shareholders have approved DPWorld's takeover offer.
The panel has to reject it for bush to get involved.
Bush has no role under the law in this.
None of the above is true.
US Treasury-Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS)
The intent of Exon-Florio is not to discourage FDI generally, but to provide a mechanism to review and, if the President finds necessary, to restrict FDI that threatens the national security.
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This order also provides for CFIUS to submit a report and recommendation to the President at the conclusion of an investigation.
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The President retains full authority to protect the national security with respect to any acquisition covered by this statute, regardless of whether the parties file a notification.
It has not gone through yet, it is waiting regulatory approval. See post 47
Thank you for the only informative post on this thread.
Although Senator Graham is correct in his "tone-deaf" accusation, it is no small shade of ironic that Senator Graham should be the one to level this accusation.
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