Ports Smorts?

Dubai Ports buying six ports in America including Newark is not the main issue. If that was it, we would only be talking about prejudice. The real question is why are companies from many other countries including Denmark, Great Britain,and others owning our ports. I guess it is better than having foriegn military bases in our country like we put into other nations? The previous owner of these 6 ports is the British Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company who is ok with the sale. Did the Brits get the idea at the Tea Party, who let them back in?

"Facilities owned by public port agencies also serve nation's strategic interests as staging points for the deployment of U.S. Armed Forces in the event of war or other international military contingency.During the Persian Gulf conflict of 1990/91, for example, more than 3.0 million measurement tons of military cargo was loaded out of U.S. commercial ports in support of Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm." An article on benefits of Privatized Ports

Well if we can sell weapons of Mass Destruction to Irag to fight Iranians up to 1990 (Even during the Iraq war we were still selling, albeit a US corporation,nuclear technology to Iraq to compliment the file cabinet from the Manhattan Project), just to take them back with UN consent and documented reciepts. I guess it is just fair for UAE employee from Iraq to load our millitary cargo ships with goods from Acme.

If we can privatize the Army and ports in military zones, why not.

For all you parents in the Bible belt or anywhere in poor and forgotten America.Do not let your kids join the regular army. When the private militia's pay their soldiers 1.5 to 2.5 million dollars a year. Why be a private when you can make more money than the leading general? Over 10,000 mercenaries in Iraq now. Be all you can be, Finacially. If they get hired by Haliburton's baby company, Kellog Brown and Root, they still can take direct orders from the man who runs this great nation. Cheney through his puppet Bush. In ten years W will be saying those words you read on my heading, "I said What?" You can not blame the lion, only the trainer.

The Scarry thing will be that we bought it! But if we are dumb enough to stick our head in the cage, we get what we deserve.