Posted on 03/10/2006 8:26:48 AM PST by indcons
They are not selling these leases to an domestic American corporation. They will set up an American holding company and *transfer* these operations to that holding company. At the end of the day DPW will ultimately be in control of these terminals.
America's word and the WOT lost. Get used to it.
Thanks...The most refreshing post of the entire thread.
Uhhh......he was scheduled to make this talk and IF CONGRESS would have KEPT IT's word and used the 45 days to investigate the DPW deal, he would have......SEVERAL TIMES!!!
Don't you find it strange that Schmucky et al, and the cowardly GOP, DID NOTHING BUT CRITICIZE the POTUS for "RUSHING" into this deal with NO INVESTIGATION, yet when GIVEN 45 days to EDUCATE THEMSELVES, they opted to act in a visceral manner?
This was not a security business. It was operation of a port terminal.
Bill Clinton helped Dubai on ports deal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1588266/posts
Financial Times (FT.com) ^ | March 1 2006 23:50 | Stephanie Kirchgaessner
Bill Clinton, former US president, advised top officials from Dubai two weeks ago
on how to address growing US concerns over the acquisition of five US container terminals by DP World.
It came even as his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton, was leading efforts to derail the deal.
Well if you are not drinking from someone's tit why accuse others of the same ?
It's childish and insulting.
Please. You ask too much of emotional, knee-jerking Bush-bashers.
Actually, I think parsing words, making self justifying rationalizations and defending the indefensible escalated this fiasco.
I wonder if some more concern might begin if more news like this that was in the article comes out.
The Bush administration also announced Friday that free trade talks with the United Arab Emirates were being postponed.
The talks, which were supposed to begin Monday, were postponed because both sides need more time to prepare, according to an announcement from the office of U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman (news, bio, voting record). USTR spokeswoman Neena Moorjani refused to say whether the postponement was related to the controversy over the port operations.
I believe that they have a policy of religious toleration which is far more lenient than most Middle Eastern countries.
Israel supported this deal. Horrors!
The President didn't try to sell the American people on the deal. He only issued a veto threat to congress. There was no leadership. Hopefully he's learned from this and realize he no longer has a blank check from the GOP in congress nor a large portion of the GOP base. But the President is a grown-up and he'll get over it.
I never thought I would see the verbal embodiement of the pot calling the kettle black. You accuse me of being a Schumer groupie, as if I agree with him on everything and then tell me I am a childish and insulting? Show me one post on this forum where you disagree with Bush on something.
Hannity decries the secretive nature of the CFIUS process and the lack of Congressional oversight. But he overlooks the fact that Congress made this a secretive process.
That's what some people on the Talking Heads shows on cable were indicating (last night)
condescend, much?
I traveled to Florida for a week to get him re-elected yet am told I voted for Kerry and are a DU'er. Go Figure.
Please see my # 171.
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