[shakespear1]

Now you guys got me thinking.

What if the control of the ports could in some way be used to bring in the "dirty bomb". Just a thought. Heck, ports need maintenance, security shut down or what ever excuse, and in come the goods. Staff working there is chosen by the OWNER!!!

Any way you cut it this deal smells like hell. When I fly into the use I need to take my shoes off because I am a suspect. Here we have the suspects buying strategic property in the USA !!! Amazing

[seldom_seen]

The UAE control of US ports is growing exponentially.

UAE terminal takeover extends to 21 ports
http://upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.p ... 1657-4981r

By wednesday we should have learned that they're actually taking control of 64 ports, 7 airports, Bank of America and your mortgage.

Without a doubt they own the whitehouse.

[smiley]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')ithout a doubt they own the whitehouse.

[rogerhb]

US Coast Guard warned about ports

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BBC', 'T')he US Coast Guard warned there were gaps in intelligence over the security risk of an Arab firm bidding to run six major US ports, the Senate has heard.

[jaws]

[Keith_McClary]

Is that white Astroturf, or do they actually make arti-snow?

[jaws]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Keith_McClary', 'I')s that white Astroturf, or do they actually make arti-snow?

[gary_malcolm]

UFB

[Dreamtwister]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Keith_McClary', 'I')s that white Astroturf, or do they actually make arti-snow?

[smiley]

They can't be that expensive. Even we can afford them

[TITAN]

Could this have been the planned outcome all along?

Dubai Threat to Hit Back

[seldom_seen]

I just hope no one draws up any cartoons about the matter. Then we're in for real trouble.

[rogerhb]

Sounds like a good time to buy into Airbus...

On the cartoon side, some "Trojan Horse" metaphor would be appropriate.

[Novus]

Is this port deal be turning into America's Suez moment? All I have to say is the port deal better go through or America is in for a very rude awakening. A dollar crisis now could easily double or triple the price of oil.

[Jellric]

They act like they were entitled to the deal. Someone should inform them that doing business with another country is a privilege, not a right.

Initially the deal sounded to me like the plans of an insane person..The Bush admin undermining its sole political advantage of seeming to be stronger vs. terrorism..further driving down Bush's already low approval ratings..handing Democrats an election issue going into the 2006 elections..

It did sound insane. That is until you consider that the UAE sits very close to the Straits of Hormuz, a waterway which is a strategic bottleneck between Oman and Iran where it would be possible to block all oil tankers from most of the Persian Gulf oil fields. A war against Iran would require the U.S. to secure this area with UAE approval. Iran has already threatened to use oil as a weapon. Evidently this port deal was a reward to the UAE in exchange for control over this area.

The Bush admin may be consistently wrong, but they aren't crazy.
They know exactly what they are doing.

Just like Iraq, this is about oil.

The Bush shell game goes on..

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jellric', 'T')hey act like they were entitled to the deal. Someone should inform them that doing business with another country is a privilege, not a right.

[smiley]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hey act like they were entitled to the deal. Someone should inform them that doing business with another country is a privilege, not a right.

[Jellric]

I don't pretend to know about the legal entanglements of the port deal, but if we need to change the laws to block this ill-conceived deal then so be it.

The people have spoken.
We want no part of this deal.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington ... poll_x.htm

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jellric', 'I') don't pretend to know about the legal entanglements of the port deal, but if we need to change the laws to block this ill-conceived deal then so be it.

The people have spoken.
We want no part of this deal.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington ... poll_x.htm

[Jellric]

I stand by my post.

The American people are overwhelmingly opposed to this deal.

Any politicians are welcome to try to block this steamroller.
If they wish to commit political suicide that is.