Dubai would control part of U.S. military shipments under Bush scheme

Posted Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 7:44 pm
As discussed here (nofollowpolicy), the Bush scheme to sell off port operations in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia to a company controlled by the United Arab Emirates has even more downsides than originally thought:
A major part of the story, however, has been mostly overlooked. The company, Dubai Ports World, would also control the movement of military equipment on behalf of the U.S. Army through two other ports. From today's edition of the British paper Lloyd's List:
[P&O] has just renewed a contract with the United States Surface Deployment and Distribution Command to provide stevedoring [loading and unloading] of military equipment at the Texan ports of Beaumont and Corpus Christi through 2010.
According to the journal Army Logistician "Almost 40 percent of the Army cargo deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom flows through these two ports."
Now, let's take a look at this:
In mid-January, President Bush nominated a senior executive of Dubai Ports World, David Sanborn, to run the Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration. Mr. Sanborn had been running the company's operations in Europe and Latin America...

The Dubai purchase was approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, of which [Treasury Secretary John Snow] is chairman and which does not usually disclose information about its deliberations, said Brookly McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Treasury Department. Ms. McLaughlin declined to say when the committee began or ended its review of the deal or what national-security implications it considered...
Both Sanborn and Snow were previously with CSX. Snow was their CEO, and Sanborn was an executive with the CSX/Sea-Land division.

Obviously, the Bush administration is completely, absolutely corrupt.

Comments

Pat (not verified)

Tue, 02/21/2006 - 17:48

Today he said he will okay the plan because o/w it would send the wrong message about treating Arab countries unfairly!

I think he's got the Multiculti Fever bad, really bad.

perrozul del norte (not verified)

Tue, 02/21/2006 - 14:04

Bush has no sense of national loyalty, he is loyal to an international clique which includes personal friends (like Vince Fox) and his family-the concept of nationhood seems to be too much of an abstraction for his little mind to grasp. Since the Bush family has been in the oil business for many years, many of the clique members are from the Middle East.

LomaAlta (not verified)

Tue, 02/21/2006 - 12:39

The Bush Administration continues to astound me. How can it claim it is better to fight terrorists in Iraq, "over there", than here at home and then turn our ports over to a UAE company? I think I know and they call it compassion.

The only think I think makes sense is that the Administration felt sorry for the terrorists who would have to carry all those heavy weapons and bombs across our 2000 mile open border to reach us. But, if the terrorists could come across our southern border, unburdened so to speak, they could go to the ports and pick up their jihad weapons and bombs there. That way, none of our attackers would be offended nor would they wind up with aches and pains from heavy lifting. Now that's what you call a compassionate conservative!

If you had bet me in 2004, when I voted for President Bush, that in less than 2 years I would find myself agreeing with Hillary and Chucky on opposing the President's open port policy, you would be a few bucks richer today.

Please don't think me too unkind, but I wonder about President Bush's stability.

boofugg (not verified)

Tue, 02/21/2006 - 07:01

Turning over American ports to the United Arab Emirates does not sound like a good idea to me, but it apparently sounds like a good idea to the guy that thought it up. This seaport giveaway situation is a serious matter. And in my opinion it should not be done. The UAE, after all, is a MUSLIM country. Anybody in our government who would even suggest importing Muslims to protect the US ports from terrorism is no doubt crazier than a shithouse rat. Shouldn't we, the voters and eventual victims, get a vote on this issue?!!

holloywood (not verified)

Mon, 02/20/2006 - 20:02

Just want to say hello, and invite you to become a hero and be a minuteman of one.