Bush Sells Port of Miami to Dubai

[cranston36]

President Bush has okayed the purchase of a large part of the business carried out in the Port of Miami by Dubai Ports World which is a company owned by the nation of the United Arab Emirates.
That is, while our men and women are fighting, dying and wasting their time in Iraq fighting to stop the spread of the backward slide of civilization in the Middle East President Bush is selling one of the busiest ports in the United States to the United Arab Emirates.
Is it not enough that they have a stranglehold on our economy?
Do they now need to take over ports of entry into the United States?
The United Arab Emirates is the world's ninth largest oil producer and the fifth largest exporter.
There are about 850,000 Emiratis and 2.6 million foreign expatriates and workers in their country.
After 9/11 they were forced to investigate their banking systems which had been financing terrorist groups like Al-Qaida.
Reportedly half of the $250,000 spent on the attacks was sent to al-Qaeda terrorists in the United States from Dubai banks. Additionally al-Qaida money in Dubai banks also has been linked to the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
How long can we as a nation survive while our elected officials make blunder after blunder?
We are being left open to personal attack.
How many more setbacks do we have to have before anyone will admit that George Bush is a mistake America can no longer overlook?

[DS1]

1. If it's owned by a foreign country, it's easier to shut it down during an

"immigration emergency"

[dchill]

2. "al-Qaida money in Dubai banks..."

This is not anything that the 9-11 Commission wanted to bother with, so why should we? :sarcasm:

[joemurphy]

3. It's the Dept. of Homeland Security...Those same wacky funsters

that gave the nation the Katrina relief effort. Think about it. What better way to secure the nation's ports than to turn them over to a company from an oil-rich Middle Eastern nation. Because they finance Al-Qaeda, who would be more knowledgable about Al-Qaeda's modus operandi?

We can all sleep better knowing our ports are safe and secure!

[Peace Patriot]

4. Am I missing something here? Isn't this treason?

*HOW* COULD HE DO THIS????!!!!!

It's the craziest thing I've heard since he showed the maps of the Iraq invasion to Prince Bandar before he showed them to Colin Powell.

[skylarmae]

7. that's what I was wondering too!

My heart is aching with the thought that it has come down to this....It's much worse than I thought it was, it seems.

[rodeodance]

5. the actual sale had not yet taken place.

[rodeodance]

6. here.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/politics/19cnd-port.html

......Dubai Ports World, a state-owned company, is completing its $6.8 billion purchase of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, which operates commercial operations at shipping terminals in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia.