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Let's try this one more time: DPW was not going to OWN PORTS. They were set to operate several container terminals, and THAT IS ALL.

I see no difference between DPW operating container terminals and COSCO (Chinese government/ARMY owned) operating container terminals.

COSCO is a much greater threat to our national security than DPW, but the Dems called us racist when we opposed the Long Beach deal.

This is Dem politics from the word go, and the squawking and hopping up and down by Republicans did nothing but help the Dems and weaken the President. It did nothing to improve our national security or to win the War on Terror.

The Dems win again, this time with a MAJOR assist from ignorant conservatives.

the squawking and hopping up and down by Republicans did nothing but help the Dems and weaken the President. It did nothing to improve our national security or to win the War on Terror.

I agree.

If the Dems are so very, very concerned about security, they need to demand a 45-day investigation into any company running our terminal, American or foreign. They especially need to investigate the Red Chinese government's company, COSCO, which Beijing itself considers an arm of its military.

COSCO - RED CHINESE COMPANY - got perks from Clinton

Links to a few Clinton, COSCO, Chinese shipping articles These are merely leads for anyone who cares to ask out why the UAE is maligned, when the Chinese were given such preferential treatment.

China Ocean Shipping Company Allegedly Running Guns to Cuba (and transported sophisticated weaponry components to Pakistan in 1998. )

Beijing may manage our ports*
After smuggling LARGE arms** of all sorts.
(Not paltry Smith-Wessons).
Have we learned any lessons?
No, we punish the Arab "good sports."

* I know they only manage terminals, but I like to word things in a way Libs can understand. Besides, it's easier to find a rhyme for "port," than for "terminal"
**On March 18, 1996, Federal agents surreptitiously seized a Poly shipment of 2,000 AK-47 assault rifles in Oakland, California. These weapons had left China on February 18 aboard a vessel belonging to ... state-owned company, the Chinese Ocean Shipping Company (`COSCO').