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There’s a big brouhaha on Capitol Hill and in some corners of the blogosphere over the purchase of a British company that currently manages several U.S. ports by Dubai Ports World, based in the United Arab Emirates.
Let me begin by saying that th…

A lot of people have been writing about the US Ports/UAE connection. You’ll have to forgive me, but it seems to me there’s less there than meets the eye. Yes things deserve scrutiny, but the dockworkers in the trenches are and will remain US unio…

Bush Threatens to Veto Any Bill to Stop Port Takeover – New York Times
“After careful review by our government, I believe the transaction ought to go forward,” Mr. Bush told reporters who were traveling with him on Air Force One to Washingt…

The port controversy continues to unfold with more strange bedfellows turning up than the time the Shriners and a Furry convention booked the same local Holliday Inn for a weekend. Hillary Clinton and Michelle Malkin have suddenly become soul mates,

Washington Times: Against
John McIntyre: Against (”[C]ommon-sense seems to tell me that we probably should not approve management of key U.S. ports to a state-owned Arab company)…

James Lileks: Against
L.A. Times: For (”Dubai Port…

There appears to be bipartisan support for protecting our ports. There’s more here, and Michelle Malkin tells how the port sellout was financed on her blog. (Note to GOP: Get on this bandwagon. Fast.)…

Jimmy Carter says the idea of a threat from UAE-owned U.S. ports is a fabrication. He also said the U.S. and Israel should fund Hamas….

DEAD MAN WALKING….This whole controversy over “Portgate” — a decision by the Bush administration to allow the operations of six big U.S. ports to be managed by a company owned by the United Arab Emirates — is fascinating. Not so…

DEAD MAN WALKING….This whole controversy over “Portgate” — a decision by the Bush administration to allow the operations of six big U.S. ports to be managed by a company owned by the United Arab Emirates — is fascinating. Not so…

It has happened again. George W. Bush has united left and right, Democrats and Republicans, in this country against one of his decisions…

Read John L. submits the following to us by email:
After going ballistic about “PortGate” and the implied dangers for US homeland security, one must ask another question, not as vital as security, but very important nonetheless.
The big …

UAE has laudered money for the terrorists and weren’t some of the highjackers formerly residents of UAE. We cannot trust them- period.

The process that is used to review purchases by foreign entities needs revamping, and it needs a process that is help in the sunshine. That would clean it up. I read only one or two out of a couple thousand were ever turned down. Washington will do us in sooner than we think out here is the Red States.

Laundering Al Qaeda protection payments though the UAE would qualify as something you’d need to bury in a security classification. Kickbacks would another. Any other guesses?