Does anyone know who bought the Dubai ports in the US?

jaxx

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Mon Jun-12-06 01:36 PM
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Does anyone know who bought the Dubai ports in the US?

I haven't heard about them reselling, so are they being run by Dubai?

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Uncle Joe

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Mon Jun-12-06 01:48 PM
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1. With Bush's track record, I am guessing Zarqawi. n/t

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TomInTib

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Mon Jun-12-06 01:52 PM
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2. I believe DPW is running the ports.

Whatever happened to the "US entity" that was going to step in?

The DPW sale was a done deal and I have always maintained that it would be allowed to stand.

I believe that the whole issue just went off and hid until the thing cooled down.

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jaxx

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Mon Jun-12-06 02:07 PM
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3. Thanks. I wondered the same, and guess we aren't supposed to know.

Just one more way the bushies do what they damn please and tell the people what they want to hear. But this is really bogus and I guess I'll write my senators one more time.

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High Plains

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Mon Jun-12-06 02:20 PM
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4. This was all a non-issue, anyway.

I don't know, maybe Lou Dobbs can rant about it for a few weeks and get us all upset again.

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jaxx

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Mon Jun-12-06 03:34 PM
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5. Why was it a non issue?

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High Plains

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Mon Jun-12-06 03:43 PM
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6. Because who gives a shit which international conglomerate does

this job? Who are the competitors? China, Singapore, some other state-owned company. The notion that Dubai's capitalist rulers were more likely to allow insane terrorists to ship stuff over was ludicrous and, frankly, an appeal to nativist hysteria and bigotry.

Meanwhile, the containers keep coming. How many incidents have we had?

This was all a big, stupid hubbub over nothing. I will say that at least it got Bush's ignorant racist base all pissed off at him.

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jaxx

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Mon Jun-12-06 03:52 PM
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7. For Sale

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High Plains

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Mon Jun-12-06 04:13 PM
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8. Nothing was for sale except a contract to manage ports.

We weren't "selling our ports" to the Arabs.

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