Hot Air And Bigotry Causes Storm Over Ports

By Cernig
Newshog


I've been watching with increasing bemusement the bipartisan category 5 politicane raging over the sale of P&O to Dubai Ports World, which would involve a handful of ports currently run by P&O in the U.S. being run by the Dubia state-owned DPW. Frist and other Republicans are threatening a bill to stop or delay the takeover; Bush has threatened to veto any such bill; the Dem leadership suddenly sound like the kind of superhawks who would nuke an Arabic nation without pause for thought….

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• P&O was a British company so the ports in question were already run by a foreign company. Given the UK's multicultural basis, several employees were no doubt Moslems. If it's a problem of national security to have foreign companies own sensitive national assets then how come no-one worried about the Brits owning the ports? Or for that matter about the Brit companies, 100% state owned by a socialist government, that have been handling US nuclear waste and nuke plant fuelling, maintenance and construction this last decade and more?


• DPW already runs major port facillities worldwide, including in Australia and Europe, and has done since before 9/11. Notice none of it's people have blown anything up? In fact, Lloyd's of London regards it's abilities very highly. DP World recently won their DP World won the prestigious (within the industry) ‘Container Terminal Operator’ award. Oh, and they intend keeping the current P&O management in place, with the headquarters of the division still in London.

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• Then there's the way that money being channelled through Dubai banks to al Qaida or some of the 9/11 team passing through the UAE are being brought up by all and sundry. For that matter, money passed through US and UK banks too — it doesn't mean their governments or state-owned companies will give al Qaida material aid. And let's remember that ALL the 9/11 hijackers passed through the US. Does that mean that America should be labelled as an abettor of terror and disalowed from running its own or anyone elses port facillities? Of course not.

Rampant bigotry disguised as argument by way of fearmongering. I am frankly ashamed of my colleagues on the Left who have joined this witchhunt so rabidly.