[muleskinner]

First off, the N.Y. Times headline is misleading and created to get just the reaction of the conservative anti-Bush gang.
If any of you brigadiers would bother to go to the Doncasters website, you can see what products or processes are performed at Doncasters plants in the U.S.

I wonder how many of you or people you know are able to function as a result of their orthopedic implant products, instead of being stuck in a wheel chair the rest of your life. The other plants are machine shops or casting houses. I suppose in the imagination of the Black Helicopter crowd, they could be machining the plutonium inner core of a nuclear bomb.

Second, you could make a case for the Dubai Ports deal offering a dock to a ship with a WMD aboard. Although any ship loaded with WMD's could tie up anywhere and release the WMD before any inspection took place.
This deal has far less opportunity for serious problems, IMO. Machinists and engineers aren't looking for trouble, more likely they're on the lookout for trouble.

[Amelia]

Although any ship loaded with WMD's could tie up anywhere and release the WMD before any inspection took place.

Inspection?

You think they inspect every single container?

Basically they take the word of the shipper as to what's in the containers.