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"The administration did not require Dubai Ports to keep copies of business records on U.S. soil, where they would be subject to court orders. It also did not require the company to designate an American citizen to accommodate U.S. government requests. Outside legal experts said such obligations are routinely attached to U.S. approvals of foreign sales in other industries."

So even routine obligations were waived for Dubai. When they say the White house and administration, to whom are they referring. Certainly not Bush. He claims to have known nothing until the eal was done. Who is in charge. Did Bush allow mid level bureaucrats to make such concessions or don't they even have to bother telling him what is going on?

Of all the states on earth. Why should Dubai receive such preferential treatment?

Dubai has a large population of Iranian borns plus more than a few Palestinians. Dubai is a wide open place where a lot of illicit stuff goes on, including, according to the State Dept trafficking in women and girls for prostitution and domestic laborers. A number of U.S initiatives to promote democracy and the rule of law are under way in several Gulf states. However the 2005 report as did the previous years report, does not include a section on the UAE; reflecting official UAE reluctance to support U.S. efforts to promote reform there.Y et we arm them to he teeth with some really high power hardware including 80 f-16 aircraft equipped with the Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missle AMRAAM 475 of them. The HARM missile and the HARPOON anti ship missle system.

The U.S. has treated this place very very well. What have we gotten in return? The right to use some of their territory for our purposes? Without our presence and assistance they would have been swallowed by their larger neighbors. So it doesn't seem practical that we needed to do so much just for privilege of using their territory.