Good!
Good. What's the rush, anyway?
If George Bush had come out against this deal, Chuckie Schumer would be all over him, calling him an insensitive racist. Chuckie will take whatever side of a position he can best exploit for Chuckie.
Idiots...
Finally. A rational decision, placing US interests ahead of the interests of the DPW/UAE force contingent.
I truly wish that these people would tell the truth about things. The security issues, as they say, are the same and will always be the same....the local Port Authority and the US Coast Guard. They, the Dubai company, are not in charge of security, but in charge of the commercial aspect of the port. They do a fantastic job at other ports, including the ports in Dubai that the US Navy seems to love. I've read that the port of Dubai is the, outside of the United States, the port that the United States uses the most.
The truth of the matter is longshoremen. The Dubai company is not union friendly and they do what they do best WITHOUT unions. We all know that Schumer and Clinton dance to the unions tunes and are using "homeland security" as a cover story.
If this were not a mid-term election year, this deal would not have raised a single eyebrow.
If the federal government won't stop it at least the affected states can try...
Rush was talking about htis today. He is in favor of the deal and did a bit of research. It was the longshorman's union that raised the scuttlebut to the dems. The union is worried it will harm their members.
As Tony Snow said, now we can see the plan the Democrats have to win the war on terror.
It isn't wiretapping. It isn't pressuring the jihadists to talk. It's a lawsuit.
UAE and specifically, Dubai, is a tiny nation in a dangerous neighborhood.
It is by far the most westernized city in the region, other than those in Israel.
Tiger Woods just won a golf tournament over there a couple of weeks ago; a tournament he regularly patronizes.
My contention is that it is far riskier for the Dubai company to take over port operations in the US than it is for the US to allow the business deal.
Any miscue at these ports that hints at terrorism would make Dubai a prime target for retaliation.
Dubai will be a far better ally in the region than a potential adversary.
When the dust settles on this controversy....I believe that the deal will go through and be forgotten in 6 months.
http://buffalonews.com/editorial/20060221/1042519.asp
I'm sure someone who knows what they're doing could find the lease.
A landlord certainly does have some say in the assignation of a lease in which it is the lessor.
If all is as the Administration says, a delay should not matter much and the concerns can be addressed.
We need to take this out of the news and not allow the Dems to build on it to erode Republicans' image on national security.
From another story on the same subject:
Mr. Coscia wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff asking for details about how the federal government determined it was safe to allow Dubai Ports World, a state-run firm out of the United Arab Emirates, to buy a British company now doing business at the terminal.
At the mention of the Bush administration's approval of the sale of port operations to a Dubai-based company, longshoremen, truck drivers, mechanics and waitresses gushed with harsh words.
"Horrendous. Scary and horrendous," said Tom DiDomenico, a longshoreman from East Hanover, uttering one of the few printable reactions by customers at the Port Eatery on Corbin Street in Newark. "I'm a big Republican and I think Bush has lost his mind."
This lawsuit is about as stupid as that fat woman suing McDonald's because she spilled piping hot coffee in her lap.
FYI.......some facts needed here?
Unions are running scared.
A lawsuit based on what grounds? What law has been broken? I have thus far seen no evidence from anyone that any law was broken or any policy circumvented.
outstanding news...
Still, it's sad day when we the people must defend our national security as well as our sovereignty in the courts...especially since that's what we elect presidents and congress to do.