Posted on 03/21/2006 6:16:56 PM PST by mr_hammer
Arab and US officials are growing nervous at the prospect of a second congressional uprising against the acquisition of American assets by a Middle Eastern-controlled company in the wake of the Dubai Ports World debacle.
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The Dubai firm that won Bush administration backing to run six U.S. ports has at least two ties to the White House.
One is Treasury Secretary John Snow, whose agency heads the federal panel that signed off on the $6.8 billion sale of an English company to government-owned Dubai Ports World - giving it control of Manhattan's cruise ship terminal and Newark's container port.
Snow was chairman of the CSX rail firm that sold its own international port operations to DP World for $1.15 billion in 2004, the year after Snow left for President Bush's cabinet.
And yet another opportunistic Bush appointee:
The other connection is David Sanborn, who runs DP World's European and Latin American operations and was tapped by Bush last month to head the U.S. Maritime Administration.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/393375p-333478c.html
Hmm...
Politics sure makes strange bedfellows, doesn't it?
Sounds like a sell out by traitors by me.
The UAE has had contracts to service, fuel, and maintain Navy ships there for 16 years. Long before Bush and Cheney were in office. As for mass murders, I served in Vietnam and we lost ~57,000 but when congress and some Americans sold us out for a political agenda another 3 million were killed in Cambodia and Vietnam. My son has 41 more days to serve in Iraq on his third combat action and we have lost about 2500 solders. However since 9/11, 4 1/2 years we have had 67,000 people murdered right here in the good old USA by thieves, criminals, murderers and terrorists. As to the question its the only deep water port in the gulf.
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-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)
"Can I purchase some prime oceanfront property too as an investment?"
You certainly can! I was having a look at some property there about three weeks ago. Absolutley stunning and very reasonably priced. Decided not to in the end as with current relations the way they are you never know how this is going to spin out. Dubai is probably the number two source at the moment for British investors seeking to protect themselves from the domestic property bubble by buying overseas (number one is Spain - we must own half their coast!)
One can see what one wants to see, however Snow had turned it down more than once and I have met him in Charlotte, NC. CSX home office. as to both Sanborn and Snow you might want to check their resumes. Congress affirmed Snow they are holding up Sanborn because he worked for DPW.
If Americans can't trust them to bring in big metal boxes and haul others out, do you think they'd want their troops next to ours?
This has been ploitical manipulation from the git-go. Schumer and Hillary have used it to make political hay, and my bet is, if you follow the money, somewhere, this benefits both in an even more significant way.
Letting the MSM, the same dinomedia most would not trust to tell them the sky is blue, lead on this is just stupid.
We have not seen the last of the fallout yet.
What's stupid about stopping the selling of private property to willing buyers? Maybe the answer is more evident when the question is properly phrased.
That wasn't an ad hominem.
An ad hominem would be "you shouldn't listen to sinkspur because he's an idiot."
When you tell someone, "you're an idiot," it's could be an insult. Or it could even be true.
Steep, if unacknowledged, downsides.
It allows the PRC, a.k.a. Red China, to dictate to search engines like Google just how it can operate within Chinese borders, and coerces Yahoo into furnishing information that will then be used to incarcerate and torture political dissidents.
It allows Rupert Murdoch to pressure Congress in relaxing rules against foreign ownership.
It's why you won't see many hard-hitting pieces of investigative journalism focusing on the depredations of the House of Saud on the FNC, or any critical pieces broadcast on the Star Network, another Murdoch media venture.
The idea that all of our problems will be solved if we just eliminate our borders, embrace unihibited free trade-presided over by decidedly undemocratic, multinational bureaucracies-and allow multinational corporate entities to decide what's best for us common proles, is just not going over as well as it once did.
People are starting to wake up and realize that perhaps we do have national interests, and should not become one huge EUrabia, complete with a universal religion-Islam, TROP-and one controlling world body, i.e. the feckless, spendthrift, anti-Western United Nations.
Britain emerged from World War II having presided over its finest moment.
It had defeated Nazi Germany and the Imperial Japanese army, in concert with its Anglo-American allies.
However, that apex also marked the moment when it entered inevitable decline, already having been sapped of an entire generation through two bloody wars, and tired of defending itself, it allowed in foreign (Muslim) workers who were Bengalis, and Pakistanis, and who-although good subjects in many respects-did not have children that assimilated to British culture, or who viewed themselves as Britons in any tangible way.
There is a reason why all of those stately, aesthetically pleasing Anglican churches have so rapidly been replaced with austere, unpalatable, Wahabbist mosques.
The truth is that people are concerned about this.
And no matter how many times the chest-thumping multiculturalists denounce people for expressing concern over their culture or their religion being trampled upon, it will not change the fact that most of these ordinary English and Scottish and Welsh people are not beer-swigging, "Islamophobic"-one of the more obnoxious, baffling neologisms I've come across recently-soccer hooligans, or Nick Griffin/Enoch Powell-loving bigots.
They are people who are earnestly and rightfully concerned that London has been transformed into Londonistan, and that they are now strangers in their own country.
I'm sure that there are many Americans who feel precisely the same way.
I find it amusing, if sad, when those who find themselves on the losing side of a political debate assuage their feelings by lashing out at "the people."
"The people" are the repository of all power not specifically delegated to the government, which governs by the will of the people.
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BUMP
It is sad that globalists fail to see that modern business concerns are merely the halftime show of a global religious war that has been going on for the past 1400 years and while certain citizens of the west are willing to ignore everything else in order to make a buck, most other peoples of the world are not that way.
It is stupid if those "willing buyers" have a vested interest in destroying the U.S.
You don't sell the rope that is going to be used to hang you with.
In the seventies I worked in Houston for a company that manufactured equipment used in constructing large pipelines. We often had Arabs visit our plants in preparation for equipment purchases. It was not uncommon to be showing them around the plant or taking them to dinner to have the group leader grab your hand and hold it. That was a sign of respect and friendship and to reject it would have been an insult. There was absolutely no homosexual aspect involved.
If you are going to deal with other cultures you would do well to learn them.
Also, many of those Arab countries have for years been courted by the Nazis and Communists. When they reach out to us in friendship we would do well to acknowledge that rather than reject it.
Most have been oil dependent for years and are now trying to diversify into other money making endeavors in preparation for the possibility of the oil supply going south or some new technology making it worth less. We are far better off having friendly Arab countries owning some of our companies than our phony friends like Russia and China.
Why do we not hear a hue and cry about Russia and China? Because the leftist media are fellow travelers with them who seek our destruction. Alarmist!? Look around and pay attention.
And therein lies the debate that doesn't seem to be happening. Does this country have a vested interest in destroying the US? Their past behavior indicates to most who pay attention to that sort of thing that they do not. But I guess all them Ay-rabs are alike in the minds of some.
Until this discussion gets past the bigotry stage, nothing will be resolved. All I would like to see happen is the discussion to get to some factual matters instead of just fear-mongering.
Just remember, we aren't at war with the entire Middle East, and cultivating allies in that region is in OUR strategic interest.
It's not so much that but that they are right next to Iran and their harbors in the UAE are literally right across the water from the Iranian border, making those harbors a sercurity risk to the U.S. and the rest of the world.
By that I mean, there is nothing to stop the Iranians from bribing a cargo-ship captain and dropping off a WMD onto the cargo-ship as it passed by the Iranian coastal border as it was bound for a major U.S. port.
I am not slandering anybody. By the very definition of what it means to be muslim they cannot "take [us] for friends".
Your implication that any of them are putting their lives on the line for our sakes is simply incorrect. Those that do put their lives on the line on our side of the conflict are doing it for their own sakes alone... and they are vastly outnumbered by those putting their lives on the line on the enemy's side.
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