The port deal is dead because Bush REFUSES to do anything about our borders. That is the long and short of it, this is (grass roots) payback for Bush open borders policy, he is not longer trusted and any deal he supports is suspect. And that my freeper friend is the story behind the story.
You are right about some of the opposition. They are so certain of the importance of sealing the borders that they are willing to abandon the middle east to Al Qaeda just so long as we build a big wall to keep out mexicans.
Whatever company buys the U.S. subsidiaries which run these terminals, they won't be able to run the terminals as well as DP WOrld, they won't be able to upgrade security like DP WOrld. And DP World won't have to give us access to the stuff they were going to give us access to, and they won't cooperate like they would have.
I bet this won't mollify the opponents of the deal, but in any case we will be less secure.
If in the next 5 years we have a terrorist act through these terminals, after DP World transfers the operations to a U.S. company, I assume all the republicans who voted yesterday will resign their offices.
And all those Freepers who said we would be perfectly safe so long as UAE doesn't run the ports will all publicly apologize and pay compensation to the victims.
BTW, I will note that it seems John Warner took action and got DP World to do this -- and I bet the action yesterday by the house made it a lot harder.
LoL I wondered how long it would take for the One Note Wonders to chime in with their crap. Good Job.