Posted on 04/28/2006 4:32:20 PM PDT by neverdem
WASHINGTON, April 27 — President Bush is expected on Friday to announce his approval of a deal under which a Dubai-owned company would take control of nine plants in the United States that manufacture parts for American military vehicles and aircraft, say two administration officials familiar with the terms of the deal.
The officials, who were granted anonymity so they could speak freely about something the president had not yet announced, said that the final details had not yet been set and that Mr. Bush might put conditions on the transaction to keep military technology in the United States.
But his action is almost certain to attract scrutiny in Congress, because of the political furor that erupted over the administration's approval of a deal earlier this spring that would have given another Dubai-owned company, Dubai Ports World, leases to operate several American port terminals through its acquisition of a British company, the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
Dubai Ports agreed to drop the port deal after it became clear that Republicans were abandoning Mr. Bush and opposing the takeover.
In this case, the plants in question are owned by Doncasters Group Ltd., a British company that is being purchased for $1.2 billion from the Royal Bank of Scotland Group by Dubai International Capital, which is owned by the United Arab Emirate government.
Because the plants make turbine blades for tanks and aircraft, the deal was reviewed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which sent it on to Mr. Bush himself for a decision, a step used only when the potential security risks or political considerations are particularly acute.
Administration officials alerted Congress that the deal would go through the committee's review process in an effort to head off the kind of public debate that surrounded...
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Beginning to look that way, isn't it?
I wonder, is it too much to ask that companies and plants that produce parts for our military be American-owned?
Inspection?
You think they inspect every single container?
Basically they take the word of the shipper as to what's in the containers.
We could have nuked Bahdad, taken out all the dirty Muslims in the country, and lost no soldiers. Heck, we could have nuked the entire Middle East, and killed even more Muslims, and still none of our guys would have been killed. So why the hell did we let 2,000+ of our guys die in Iraq? I think it's so the Iraqi people could live in a democracy. That's why those soldiers' sacrifice wasn't in vain.
However, if you hate all Muslims so much, why don't you get on the Jaques Francois bandwagon? Then we won't have to shed blood for Muslim allies ever again, and we could watch as Zarqawi takes over and executes all our Iraqi allies live on Al Jazeera.
The sale has also been covered, after the fact, in national papers.
I haven't heard the cable networks speak of it at all, however. They're too worried about Rush Limbaugh's plea bargain.
The "Straight" truth always escapes those of your ilk only the loss of National Sovereignty and your personal freedoms will penetrate your being and even then you and yours will live in denial until they haul you out to cut your heads off!
He's not set to do it, he already did it. This morning""
Did I hear that the Dubai family that is going to get these facilities is the same family that just sent $50 million to Hamas?
What don't I get with this>??
Come up with a new line. This one is getting old. You use it in every debate when you are cornered.
SIckening.
Capitalism untrammeled by any purporse higher than profit leads to this and worse.
And in this case (and others like it) there is likely the open borders/globalization crap at work as well.
Bush and his clique in Washington D.C. do not believe in free markets or capitalism, none of the elites do.
It challenges their status.
Where did I say we should pull our troops out?
Also, if we were to pull our troops out now why would they be considered failures? That makes no sense whatsoever. They won their battles. It's the Iraqi people that now have to prove they are worthy of the sacrifices we have made for them.
Your link is no good.
120 posted on 04/29/2006 4:21:48 AM CDT by raybbr
Do you stay up all night and drink?
But it will be foreigners who control the technology, and that's the security threat.
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