[reagan_fanatic]

I'm generally supportive of President Bush, but he's dead wrong about this. No foreign entities should have control of American ports, period.

Between this and Bush's woeful mishandling of illegal immigration, I sometimes wonder what's going on inside of his head.

[John Valentine]

No foreign entities should have control of American ports, period.

If no American companies will enter bids for the work, you're left only with foreign bidders. That's exactl;y the situation here. Actually these ports have been run by P&O for years. What is happening here is that a Dubai company bought out P&O, but the P&O port contracts don't automatically follow to the new owner. If you have a few extra bucks, maybe you ought to go into the port management business and try to outbid the forign competition.