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Recently, the "Golden Dome" mosque in Samarra, Iraq was reduced to rubble by bombers. It turns out that Iraqi Security men who were charged with guarding the mosque collaborated with terrorists to allow the bombing to take place.

Until someone proves to me that a motivated Islamofascist working for Dubai Ports would have no possible way of breaching security to allow bombs or other dangerous terrorist tools into the U.S., I will oppose this deal.

When I see a constant drumbeat in the media in favor of this deal I start to see the public relations machinery working to convince the reasonably suspicious among us that "There's nothing to see here. Stop asking questions. Just move along."

Until someone proves to me that a motivated Islamofascist working for Dubai Ports would have no possible way of breaching security to allow bombs or other dangerous terrorist tools into the U.S., I will oppose this deal.

And what's to stop them from doing this now regaurdless of who's running the port?

There's NOTHING wrong with asking questions (questions are good, we like questions. My favorite word is WHY), but some don't listen when thet hear an answer that goes against their worldview.

Until someone proves to me that a motivated Islamofascist working for Dubai Ports would have no possible way of breaching security to allow bombs or other dangerous terrorist tools into the U.S.

They'd have nothing to do with it.

DPW or any other terminal management company isn't responsible for packing and shipping this stuff. It's packed into ships overseas, comes into the port, and is unloaded at the terminal. Sometimes, a container isn't even opened at the terminal. Or, a container may contain just another sealed container that isn't opened by the shipping company. Whether its a Brit or UAE company managing the routing of those containers is irrelevant because any terrorist seeking to ship something illegal would have no reason to tell either. What they'd worry about are Customs, etc., which are completely separate.

If you're talking not about the shipping aspect, but just about some employees coming into the country, that's not a big deal. The numbers under our immigration laws would be very small -- dwarfed by the number of moslems who come in under other visas. And if you're talking about illegal immigration, that really has nothing to do with DPW either because if its illegal, the people certainly aren't going to waltz in openly via DPW personnnel augmentation.

You will never see a media drumbeat in favor of this deal because it causes political damage to the president. Bush could do everything the left and the press clamor for and they would criticize him for taking too long.

So, who has proved to you that a "motivated Islamofascist working for" P&O company "would have no possible way of breaching security to allow bombs or other dangerous terrorist tools into the U.S"?

After all, if your disapproval of the deal is acheived, P&O will run the terminals. Terrorists have had 6 years to work on getting a plant into THAT company.

Opponents continue to compare this deal to some non-existant reality where all the ports are run by U.S. companies with workers that are sworn to loyalty to our country.