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| March 11, 2006
| Shakir Husain
Posted on 03/11/2006 2:20:43 AM PST by PrinceOfCups
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To: putupjob
I hope everyone realizes the ports in Dubai COULD NOT BE bought by American companies, by law. Ours can't be bought either... only leased.
To: LowCountryJoe
"We will pay for it!" Yup. And more of the money will likely go right back into our domestic economy, where it came from in the first place. Am I missing something here?
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posted on
03/11/2006 6:18:56 AM PST
by
CowboyJay
(Rough Riders! Tancredo '08)
To: PrinceOfCups; SJackson; Hildy
I recently had the opportunity to speak with someone who has great knowledge on this issue. Hands-on knowledge. He thinks this deal was a stinker and he's glad it got KO'd. It was good to have my instincts confirmed as accurate.
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posted on
03/11/2006 6:22:17 AM PST
by
veronica
("A person needs a sense of mission like the air he breathes...")
To: PrinceOfCups
I do not think those who knew what they were doing, and those that followed are the least bit interested in the consequences.
There is no anger at the Clintons for their profiting from this deal on both ends. Monetarily or politically. Seems to me IF UAE is tooooo evil to park ships in our ports then they are tooooo evil for a former co-president, first senator to enhance her living standards.
To: LowCountryJoe
So I guess the USA is the only country in the world with no right to act in its own best interests and no right to respond to insults done to us? Buying a ticket on American Airlines Flight 77 was a simmple business transaction as well. If the USA reacted the way we are told the UAE will react, we'd be retaliating against almost every country on the planet.
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posted on
03/11/2006 7:19:15 AM PST
by
thoughtomator
(Nobody would have cared if the UAE wanted to buy Macy's...)
To: CowboyJay
I'm not sure of the details but let's assume that the Dubai (sp?) company bought the rights to manage port operations for 6.8 billion dollars...they've bought it already either with money they've borrowed or they've done it outright with cash [if borrowed, they still have an obligation to repay the loan under the terms the loan was issued]. Now let's say that they cannot fetch the same 6.8 billion dollars when they are forced to sell their rights to operate...let's say the highest bid is 5.8 billion. Don't you think that they will petition the government to recoup that one billion dollar loss? Don't you think that the taxpayer will be 'on the hook' for that one billion?
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posted on
03/11/2006 5:33:21 PM PST
by
LowCountryJoe
(I'm a Paleo-liberal: I believe in freedom; am socially independent and a borderline fiscal anarchist)
To: LowCountryJoe
Great post, LowCountryJoe. This is such a no-brainer it's difficult to understand the reactions of a lot of Republicans. Although, I'm behind Bush 100%, he's not much of a salesman when it comes to this kind of event.
The bottomline is this: Why not have some "trusted" Arabs 'involved' in operations activities within the ports - would it not follow that they would do everything possible to protect the ports, e.g. keep their eye to the ground in the Arab world, etc.?
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posted on
03/12/2006 10:07:11 AM PST
by
Sonora
To: PrinceOfCups
"Dubai was forced out [of US port operations] as a result of racism and politicisation of a purely business transaction," he said.Wake me up when Muslim immigrants and Christians start fleeing the racist US for the delightful shores of the UAE.
Hypocrites.
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posted on
03/12/2006 10:09:26 AM PST
by
JCEccles
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