Posted on 02/20/2006 5:33:05 PM PST by Sunshine55
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle yesterday threatened a congressional investigation of a deal to give control of six U.S. seaports to an Arab company, while one key Republican said the Bush administration's security reassurances were not adequate.
Democrats also are threatening legislation to block foreign governments from operating U.S. ports.
"I think we've got to look into this company. I think we've got to ensure ourselves that the American people's national-security interests are going to be protected," said Sen. Evan Bayh, Indiana Democrat. "And frankly, I think the threshold ought to be a little higher for a foreign firm. There can't be a choice between profits and protecting the American people."
The classified deal would let Dubai Ports World (DPW) of the United Arab Emirates run ports in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Orleans and Miami. London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., which had been running the six ports, was bought last week by the government-owned DPW.
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"London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., which had been running the six ports, was bought last week by the government-owned DPW."
So that's the new strategy, making it sound like a done deal. The acquisition is NOT a done deal.
I have to agree with them. If it looks like a duck, it probably is. Blood is thicker than money or something along those lines.
Good.
"Blood is thicker than money"
Yeah, our blood, their money.
Soooooo.....let me get this straight.....shipments will come through the Chinese-owned Panama Canal to a port run by the Arabs and then (after the Trans Texas Corridor gets built) travel up Spanish-built highways to Walmart stores where illegal aliens will buy the products?
Bush just needs to reverse this and get it behind him. It ain't gonna go.
For Lurch Chertoff to go on the airways over the weekend and defend this debacle is, to use the word of Newt Gingrich, incomprehensible. Clearly his job is too much for him, and he needs to step aside, and resign. Especially when the previous HLC Ridge is basically saying the same thing. Bush needs to be better served by his staff. Chertoff has failed in this regard. It would be political fodder for the dems but, holy cow, this is plain stupid. Bush should clean house before the fall elections, maybe leave Rumsfeld, because the muslims hate him, but realize he will kill them.
... and we'll all live happily everafter.
Actually, they come from China, on Chinese ships, through the Chinese controlled Panama Canal, to a Chinese owned container port in the Bahamas, THEN they get shipped to Arab run ports in the U.S.
"He wants it to sound like this just slipped by the administration, with lackadaisical attention paid."
And it's been painfully easy for him to do so because ...
Allowing America to sell off it's most lucrative assets to oil rich Arab countries (who had record profits from oil sales and need to spend a lot of money) is a bad idea.
Selling off American industry and commerce piece by piece puts a lot of future jobs and generations in peril. America needs it's assets to guarantee our survival.
Ports, industry, and our security are America's #1 Asset.
Without control of those basic points of entry, our security is in jeopardy. We cannot afford to sell off these assets no matter what DC says. And exactly where do they plan on using the money from the sale anyhow??
This is one BAD idea. Who are the Bozo's who think up these ponzi schemes anyhow?
That's something that is not going to happen.
One of President Bush's weaknesses is that not only does he reward and expect loyalty, he is too loyal to his picks.
Through everything that has happened during his two terms, particularly 9-11 and Katrina, how many people has he fired, forced to resign, etc.?
3 days and counting now, and this Administration has still not bailed on endorsing the deal. Are they certifiably insane?
Not being a smart-aleck here. What actually IS the procedure for such a thing? Is it purely at the Executive Branch's discretion or a panel of sorts?
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