Posted on 03/09/2006 9:02:17 AM PST by prairiebreeze
I think American middleman and Dubai will have some leasehold interest still, but it's just breaking and I don't have a handle on it yet.
Here is the banner on FNC: Dubai ports says it will sell US piece of deal to another investor.
But the House just said screw the 45 days, we're going to preempt the deal now
Exactly so. And just WHO WAS IT that reneged and proved themselves untrustworthy.
The United States Congress, that's who.
LOL.....my son doesn't need to go there! hehehe
Excuse me??????
"We are now the laughing stock of the world. We have insulted our best strategic ally in the area and it will be very costly...."
John Kerry, is that you?
The ports were always and have always been under American control.
For the 900,000 th time, all we are talking about is six goat stinkin container terminals that are leased from us, not owned either. It never involved the transfer of security, just the goat steenkin loading operations.
So we insulted a entire country over a lousy lease.
now we will pay the price for that action, and our ports will actually be less secure because cooperation on the other shipping end will be affected. As well as military assets and ops in the area.
"So you're blaming the backward mentality of Arabs on Christians now? Oh, that is logical."
What are you reading?
LOL!!!!
Then let's give the deal to Halliburton. I am totally in support of that option.
Why didn't they bid on this? They don't have the kind of cash/oversight necessary to work this kind of deal.
No matter what the Prez does, he can't sell it to those that aren't interested in buying. He doesn'y need to sell it to the People (at least he shouldn't have had to except for the idiot political opportunists) and the Dims and rebellious Repubs are mor einterested in making political points instaed of acting with reason. They are overgrown, egotistical children, plain and simple and they will not accept an adult discourse. They are betraying our country as sure as any traitor, and all for political capital, which is probably going to end up biting the Repubs (big gory chunks) in the butt. Dubai can do us more harm by turning its back on us than what its operation of those ports could ever do. Now, since it is getting stabbed in the back by us, and is planning on stopping any cooperation and complimentary financial dealing, the same idiots that did the dastardly deed will be on the boob-tube decrying Dubai for never being our friend and use its reaction as "proof" that they did the right thing (even though they caused it). I'm disgusted.
That's just what I've been doing over the lack of immigration law enforcement.
Name calling doesn't give anymore credence to your argument and yes good business practice among partners do take past performance in account.
Bingo, we have a winner!
It's just that simple, scorps & dune bunnies don't evolve significantly in one or two generations, no matter how much or where you kiss them Mr. Bush.
"Oww, buurnnn!
I wish they got all this hot and bothered over our porous southern border......
"I can guarantee you that if the shoe were reversed, our country would do EXACTLY what the UAE is doing."
I don't know about that. Have we really been that tough on France and Germany? Have we been tough on Vicente Fox's mass exodus across our borders?
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