Posted on 02/23/2006 6:58:42 AM PST by Howlin
ROFL. Oh, erroneous newspaper articles will be written after all the hearings and we can assume that everything they say is 100% incorrect :-)
The University of Michigan made me a person of the right...I was an anti-authority teenager when I first arrived in Ann Arbor and everybody in authority was from the left :)
Oh My .. (hand to chest)...*gasp*... I had no idea.
How 90's of people! ;]
ROFL! Thanks for my best laugh today. You delivered it PERFECTLY.
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. . . you don't even understand that the President et. al. not only didn't know but COULDN'T know about the particulars of this
Again, perhaps you would care to actually explain why the President "couldn't know" about the particulars of this, and why you think this insulation from knowledge is either acceptable or reasonable.
Another bit my scan of your long post brought up was your complete lack of understanding of port security.
Perhaps you should do more than scan.
You can claim that security--which we are involved with over in the UAE, not just on the receiving end--will be the realm of the buyer, but stating it repeatedly doesn't make it so.
Yes, the CIS program and the proposed Container Verification regime involve both originator and receiver. They also involve seal, re-seal, and specific reporting. Now, why is it wise to have DP World in charge of the operators duties on both ends of this spectrum?
And I made it perfectly clear that the operator is not exclusively in charge of security. The operator is, however, of necessity an integral part of security. Again, perhaps you should do more than "scan."
You are trying to use the word "security" in about four different ways in your highlights
I segregated the security issues rather completely. And by necessity, an operator has specific security obligations concerning container, site, personnel, and land tranfer. Perhaps you would care to point out specifically where those duties will not exist in the case of DP World.
That's not debate or argument, that's spin.
Spin? I have made a concerted effort to put on the table both the information I have garnered and the concerns that information raises. In response, I receive truly disproportionate and frankly bizarre accusations. Ah well, such is the world of the internet.
Oh brother. Now, how about disclosing "all that explanation" in some way. I have only been able to see a part of the hearings, as I said.
If the shoe fits Tom DeLay, then absolutely, him too. I am strictly referring to their record so far ON THIS ISSUE. Not their whole lives or careers.
I'm not referring to P&O's winning bid, or P&O's shareholder approval. That is between P&O and DP World (and indeed, it appears that P&O wasn't certain who would be the winning bidder until the very last minute).
I'm referring to the apporval by the CFIUS, which appears to have been communicated to the President (and indeed to the committee chair, Mr. Snow) after the fact.
I'm having doubts about this myself. This whole story has been misreported from the word "go".
No, because of the extensive space and military applications. Would I mind him owning this BRITISH company? No.
The majority are wrong this time - a couple terminals at 6-7 U.S. ports are not "strategic" - next?
Thanks for the link. Very informative. It is always nice to have actual information in this debate. I'm getting very tired of the snarky comments and content free hand-waving of the apologists.
No, but it used to mean person capable of critical thought... *sigh*
What are the President's motives for wasting our national security?
Actually (and hopefully) a reasonable basis for DP World to behave itself. But I don't think DP World management (or upper echelons) will be the source of mischief.
The UAE has turned a blind eye (either deliberately or through negligence) to manipulations of its own banking system, ports, and domestic companies in the past, and has garnered needless international disrepute in the process.
My concern is with the machinations possible within the enormous rank and file that makes up a company the size of DP World (with this acquisition, the third largest terminal operator in the world). Corporate bureaucracy and corruption is, after all, as common as governmental bureaucracy and corruption.
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