Rate this Yahoo story. White House Defends Port Sale to Arab Co.

Imalittleteapot

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Thu Feb-16-06 10:19 PM
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Rate this Yahoo story. White House Defends Port Sale to Arab Co.

This UAE deal needs attention. Conservatives and liberals are angry. Besides Lou Dobbs, has the story been covered anywhere else?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/port_security;_ylt=AjMtLNgYKl09BUToU_7sg3dhr7sF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

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Jon8503

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Thu Feb-16-06 10:22 PM
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1. It has been out for about a week but not much coverage it seems.

Edited on Thu Feb-16-06 10:24 PM by Jon8503

Was posted here 2 or 3 days ago and did'nt get any interest here. Most of the interest here was the VP's hunting trip. It kind of surprised me that it has'nt generated a lot of interest. Starting to see some posts about it tonight on here though.

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Disturbed

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Thu Feb-16-06 10:32 PM
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4. So this deal was closed 30 days ago but...

Congress members are only objecting now?

The Homeland Security Department said it was legally impossible under the committee's rules to reconsider its approval without evidence DP World gave false information or withheld vital details from U.S. officials. The 30-day window for the committee to voice objections has ended.

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Jon8503

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Thu Feb-16-06 10:39 PM
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5. The entire thing to me is unbelievable. I don't know why it has

taken so long to be raising hell about it. Also, a question we ask so many times, where is the media? What do you think if this was on the front pages of every national newspaper and on the TV news the public would do? I really think they would be outraged.

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spindrifter

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Thu Feb-16-06 10:27 PM
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2. This is outrageous!

It is also very much more complicated than the article indicates. How did this ever even become a possibility? What were various port officials doing will this committee was considering the sale? Port officials are highly motivated to make as much money for their own ports as possible, since the business is so highly competitive.

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Old and In the Way

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Thu Feb-16-06 10:27 PM
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3. Atrios posted on this tonight.....I hope this starts getting amped.

That's a good sign. I think others in the blogosphere will pick up on this. It is outrageous. Next, we'll see Pakistan making a bid to buy our inter-state highway system...

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Joe Fields

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Thu Feb-16-06 10:54 PM
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6. no, they will by our mountain chains, and turn them into

al-quaeda training facilities/ resorts for al-qaeda members on vacation.

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spindrifter

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Thu Feb-16-06 10:55 PM
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7. The smell of a huge water rat is in the air!

I started scanning through some of the recent stuff on this topic and discovered most are simply the same wire service article. But some papers chose to leave this out:

said ... even under foreign control, U.S. ports will continue to be run by unionized American employees. "You're not going to have a bunch of UAE citizens working the docks," Flynn said. "They're longshoremen, vested in high-paying jobs. Most of them are Archie Bunker-kind of Americans."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/11/AR2006021100527.html

I have to thank WaPo for leaving in the classist statement about longshoremen. It helps me to understand the true perspective of these people who support BushCo.

The other major point to take away from the superficial articles that are out there so far is that the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. has nothing to do with Congress. It is composed of representatives from Treasury, Defense, Justice, Commerce, STate and Homeland Security. So we are back to the "C" cabal--croneyism, incompetence and corruption.

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