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Re: {OT} insanity
"badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:xn0eik74r1f68m9000@news.readfreenews.net...[color=blue]
> Border control is my biggest beef with the current administration.
> Giving control of our ports to the UAE or any other foreign outfit is
> just plain wrong. Whether you're liberal or conservative there can't
> be any justification for this.[/color]
This leftist agrees with you. It's hard to imagine what the Administration
is thinking on this.
The latest edition of Scientific American pointed up a related potential
problem in national security: outsourcing military C**3 and weapons
management and control software development to foreign countries.
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> White House Defends Port Sale to Arab Co.
> By TED BRIDIS and DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writers
> 2 hours, 28 minutes ago
> [url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060216/ap_on_go_pr_wh/port_security_4[/url]
>
>
> The Bush administration on Thursday rebuffed criticism about potential
> security risks of a $6.8 billion sale that gives a company in the
> United Arab Emirates control over significant operations at six major
> American ports.
>
> Lawmakers asked the White House to reconsider its earlier approval of
> the deal.
>
> The sale to state-owned Dubai Ports World was "rigorously reviewed" by
> a U.S. committee that considers security threats when foreign companies
> seek to buy or invest in American industry, National Security Council
> spokesman Frederick Jones said.[/color]
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