[The Lumster]

I just can't understand why George Bush is so invested in this idea of turning the operations at six essential U.S. ports, New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia, over to a foreign government ... and an Islamic foreign government at that.

It's called quid-pro-quo

Bush has promised this to his Arab buddies in the UAE in exchange for their support in the war on terror. Just like he promised Egypt and Jordan a Palestinian state in the middle of Israel. There's no telling what else he's promised these shady sheiks but you can bet that eventually it will come back to bite us in the butt.

[Alberta's Child]

I just can't understand why George Bush is so invested in this idea of turning the operations . . .

Maybe he's not "invested" in this idea at all. The notion that this proposed acqusition could simply have been reviewed -- and approved -- no differently than any other corporate acquisition involving foreign companies seems to have been lost on a lot of people.