<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 11, 2006, at 1:24 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Marta Russell wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">CONGRESS MUST ENFORCE DIVESTITURE OF ALL FOREIGN GOVERNMENT CONTROL AND OWNERSHIP OVER OUR PORTS</DIV> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Why?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Doug</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>The arguments have been all over the media. Do you think this stance is based on hysteria?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Small businesses and others are in need of sources of income here. Personally I think Americans should have these jobs -- and Halliburton should not get the contracts. I never understood why, for instance, the US contracts federal overseas jobs that could be going to unemployed disabled people in this country.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Marta</DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>