Tuesday, February 21, 2006

 

Port Problems

Unless you've been living under a rock or totally buy into Republican Rhetoric as if it were the gosh-honest truth, then you know that there is an underlying problem with the sale of a British Port company to the Dubai Ports World, an Arab port company owned completely by the Royal Family of the United Arab Emerates (UAE). The problem? The company they're buying controls some port operations in six US cities. Oh yeah: They also handle US Military shipping. Well, now Bush is threatening to veto any legislation that blocks the sale of the company, and Donald Rumsfeld (who, as Secretary of Defense, sits on the board that approved this sale) says he didn't even know about this whole thing until over the weekend. There's something not quite right here... (Link 1 -- Link 2 -- both via Fark)

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