owned business as this is versus a privately-owned company, as the UK company selling the franchise is.
I don't like the whiff of anti-Arab rhetoric, but I can't support the sale of operations of key US ports to a foreign country, much less one that is in such a troubled area of the world.
Sen. Menendez made this point near the end of his interview on Hardball:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x485350thread title (2-21-06 GD):
VIDEO- Bob Menendez on Port Security Comment/excerpt: Liveoaktx/ Can-o-Fun VIDEO from MSNBC Hardball. At first, Sen. Menendez says much the same things that he did in his 2/20 interview with Keith Olbermann. But then, in response to questions, more comes out. (paraphrasing) He's asked "what Arab country WOULD he trust to run the ports," and he replies that it's not that the UAE is an Arab country, but that the company buying the ports is state owned and no foreign country should run our ports. He said he would have not have this objection if it were an Arab-owned company that was NOT owned by a foreign country and met all the security criteria. He raised the issue: what if the US were to get into a dispute with a foreign company that ran our ports and they shut them down? It's a SECURITY concern. And here's your earlier video of Cafferty blasting the UAE ports deal:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x482899thread title (2-21-06 GD):
Cafferty: "this may be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back" Comment/excerpt: MUST-SEE VIDEO in Reply #81. Partial transcript in opening post: “Wolf, this may be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back, this deal to sell control of six US ports to a company controlled by the United Arab Emirates. There are now actually Senators and Congressmen and Governors and Mayors telling the White House "you're not gonna do this." And it's about time. No one has said "no" to this administration on anything that matters in a very long time. Well this matters. It matters a lot. If this deal is allowed to go through, we deserve whatever we get. A country with ties to terrorists will have a presence at six critical doorways to our country. And if anyone thinks that the terrorists, in time, won't figure out how to exploit that, then we're all done. Nothing's happened yet, mind you, but if our elected representatives don't do everything in their power to stop this thing, each of us should vow to work tirelessly to see that they are removed from public office. We're at a crossroads - which way will we choose?” I'll add this new video thread to the compilation too (see my sig line for links)
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