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> From: <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net>
> -No port property would have been foreign owned. Only the right to manage.
> -The fact that the UAE
> -recognizes the Taliban regime tells us next to nothing about the company
> -Dubai Ports World. The US has people detained illegally in Guantanamo
> - so by your reasoning Ford is not to be trusted to build safe cars?
>
> You aren't listening. Dubai Ports World is owned by the UAE government.
> This is more equivalent to the US Transportation Department purchasing
> another country's infrastructure-- or at least the right to manage it. Oh
> yeah, and under the port deal, all safety and other management info would be
> stored in the UAE and unavailable legally to US lawsuits, part of the lovely
> deal negotiated with the Bush administration.
>
> --- Nathan Newman
So why didn't the Dems try to block the deal when Dubai World Ports bought the port operations and shipping terminals of CSX corp last year? Perhaps because they couldn't score points against Bush in doing so? They didn't seem too worried about the concerns you list above did they?
John Thornton