Worthy News: Ports deal questioned in the U.S. - Int'l Herald Trib

[other one]

I think this might be the only way for us to revamp our port security, if this company takes over the 21 ports and we revamp the security so that the ports are safer, then they may well have done us a favor by doing so. China has port control on at least one terminal in Los Angeles and several other countries have terminals there also.....

We'll just have to see. I think it bothers me just to have any of them here, but the way our economy is, there is no other way. This kind of thing will bring us more and more into the global world and more and more away from our own soverienty.... and that is what bothers me the most about the whole thing.

Sam

[Giaour]

I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. --I Timothy 2:1-2

[Marnie]

"There are times when President Bush sorely disappoints. Just when you might expect him to issue a malapropistic explanation, pander to his base or simply not have a clue about what he is talking about, he does something so right, so honest and, yes, so commendable, that - as Arthur Miller put it in "Death of a Salesman" - "attention must be paid." Pay attention to how he has refused to indulge anti-Arab sentiment over the Dubai ports deal."

Read the rest of it here: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opin...4p-335106c.html

[Catsmeow]

I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. --I Timothy 2:1-2

Thank you, Giaour, for reminding us of what's really important.

[O'Dannyboy]

Again people are playing off our concerns as some form of racism. I personally am not concerned whether or not the people of the UAE are "camel jockeys" or not. I have no choice but to be concerned about selling our ports to a UAE govenment owned company. I am even more concerned with selling our ports to a majority muslim country. I also have reason to be concerned about ANY deal that the president would threaten to veto only hours after having heard about it on the NEWS. There are even rumors that the Bush family has money tied to this deal. It even sounds like Bush is more concerned about congress than what the rest of the nation thinks. Supposedly the deal is set to be closed before the investigation is even concluded. Much of the paperwork has been "classified" even though it's been treated as nothing more than a "business deal". The whole thing apparently was meant to be under the table and wreaks of shady politics.

[Christ's Free Servant]

Again people are playing off our concerns as some form of racism. I personally am not concerned whether or not the people of the UAE are "camel jockeys" or not. I have no choice but to be concerned about selling our ports to a UAE govenment owned company. I am even more concerned with selling our ports to a majority muslim country. I also have reason to be concerned about ANY deal that the president would threaten to veto only hours after having heard about it on the NEWS. There are even rumors that the Bush family has money tied to this deal. It even sounds like Bush is more concerned about congress than what the rest of the nation thinks. Supposedly the deal is set to be closed before the investigation is even concluded. Much of the paperwork has been "classified" even though it's been treated as nothing more than a "business deal". The whole thing apparently was meant to be under the table and wreaks of shady politics.

Yep! That is what it sounds like. Time will tell. I believe God has it all taken care of, though. They may fool us, if that is what they are doing, but God sees everything! Sooner or later, it will come to the light.

[O'Dannyboy]

Its in the news, this morning, that the federal government is also reviewing the sale of a software company to an Israeli firm. Suposedly the software company in question writes programs for the military. I'm not sure if this is genuine concern or an apeasement tactic to make the UAE feel better. It just seems ironic that its an Israeli firm they choose to review from the numerous sales/bids for U.S. companies from other nations.