Bush to approve Dubai's takeover of nine military plants

[quaoar]

Not yet posted to the NYT website:

New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Bush is expected on Friday to announce his approval of a deal under which a Dubai-owned company would take control of nine plants in the United States that manufacture parts for American military vehicles and aircraft, say two administration officials familiar with the terms of the deal.

The officials, who were granted anonymity so they could speak freely about something the president had not yet announced, said that the final details had not yet been set and that Bush might put conditions on the transaction to keep military technology in the United States.

But his action is almost certain to attract scrutiny in Congress, because of the political furor that erupted over the administration’s approval of a deal earlier this spring that would have given another Dubai-owned company, Dubai Ports World, leases to operate several American port terminals through its acquisition of a British company, the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co.

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Because the plants make turbine blades for tanks and aircraft, the deal was reviewed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which sent it on to Bush himself for a decision, a step used only when the potential security risks or political considerations are particularly acute.

[Cobalt Violet]

1. I wonder if they are planning on paying the workers $123. a month?

Like they do in Dubia.

[SoCalDem]

4. Probably not, but I wonder if they will be asking for visas to import

Dubaian workers to bolster the workforce:eyes:

One question I have is... Why is Dubai buying all our stuff, and why are we so eager to sell it :( :pout:

[Cobalt Violet]

16. I'm hoping people get pissed about this.

It doesn't seem right.

I wonder if we will ever be able to undo the damage Dubia Dubya has done.

[Erika]

2. W's redistribution of wealth to the globalists

Take from the American worker and send the profit overseas.

[OKthatsIT]

39. making us further dependent on people who dont give a damn...

about our Constitution or our sovereignty..or our security...these 'set ups' will make sure THE WORLD is in constant chao$ AND sacrifice our tax dollars for profit margins abroad.

EVERY company in the military industrial complex MUST be subject to audit from now on....and that can only be available and controllable on our own truf with our own laws.

We CANNOT approve 'profit margin' wars anymore. It isn't humane and it isn't fiscally responsible.

[The Wielding Truth]

66. You have made some excellent points .

This situation feels totally out of control.
Are our interests being served by these deals? Are we gaining anything as a nation? US citizenship has been cheapened by Bush Co.

[msongs]

3. can we let IRAN build all OUR nuclear weapons too?

that way the USA can save money AND have a legitimate reason to nuke Tehran!

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[proud patriot]

5. The American people are not going to like that

x(

[Julius Civitatus]

42. The Murkan people are too busy demonizing illegal Mexicans now

Notice how suddenly our biggest fear and concern is not the "mooslim terrist", but the illegal Mexican laborer? Yeah, Rove plans work like clockwork.

[Dubai]

75. Dubai people find this amuzing

just wanted to say that the reactions of the people in the USA is really funny and intersting to watch. Its all about the money lol you guys should look in to dubai maybe you will move there one they.

International affair is critical and these plants were never owned by american companys but when arbas buy them you guys freak out. Are you guys scared? really weird people

[Miss Chybil]

6. Well, he IS the decider.

He just decidedly makes all the wrongs decisions.

[jimshoes]

7. General Electric makes those kind of parts

Did Dubai just buy GE? :wow:

[Bushies gotta go]

8. time to start screaming at the congresscritters again.

Geeze, this idiot just doesn't learn. I guess he figures he'll go for broke, screw us all. He's got nothing to lose anyway.

fnck me. I am so tired of it all.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

9. What IS it with him and Dubai???

--Oh, wait, never mind... :evilgrin:

[ThomCat]

12. He's determined to sell some profitable part of our

national safety to Dubai. He's adamant. It's scary how determined he is to sell something to them.

They must have some really good blackmail material, or else they've bribed him very well.

[Julius Civitatus]

44. They freakin' own him, that's what!

[EC]

10. Now why would he even do this?

He's rubbing America's nose in it, so to speak...Why would he purposely lower his poll numbers? He knows he's a goner and is trying to get these deals through before we finish him off....that's all I can figure...

[katty]

65. He's "The Decider" - deciding to have his #'s drop even more

[spindrifter]

11. Next thing you know, they

will announce that Dubai is H*lliburton.

[wtmusic]

13. "The Onion" -- at it again

(it's not The Onion?!) :crazy:

[quaoar]

14. No

It isn't The Onion.

[acmavm]

15. Why doesn't he just turn the whole damn place over to 'em and get it

done with? What is it with them wanting to take over or run or most sensitive or important industries or however you would classify the ports of our country?

[Kittycat]

17. Is there a link yet?

eom

[quaoar]

22. Link

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/washington/28dubai.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[quaoar]

23. Here's the link

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/washington/28dubai.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[NVMojo]

18. the neocon corp pushers know they are going down in flames ....so

their buttboy is signing all kinds of deals now before it is over and too late. And we will be fecked nation.

[tabasco]

56. You are exactly right.

Despite the glee that many feel for the fall of the Bush corporate cabal, the fact is they have been extremely successful.

They know they cannot fool the people indefinitely, and they steal as much as they can, as fast as they can, when they seize the reins of power. This will have been a good eight years for the traitorous thieves. :mad:

They know it may be another generation before they will have this kind of power again, so they are now in overdrive mode.

I simply hope that they have destroyed the republican party for the rest of my lifetime.

[A Simple Game]

63. You are absolutely right.

Many here feel that * has been a failure, he has not! They have gotten most of what they set out to achieve. The only people he has failed are the American People, and they don't matter, his base is quite happy.

"I simply hope that they have destroyed the republican party for the rest of my lifetime."

And I hope you are much younger than I am.

[DBoon]

19. We have to sell them something to pay for the oil

We have destroyed whatever real economy the US had.

We now get to sell the parts for cash.

[progressoid]

20. Ummm......WHAT THE FUCK???

Somebody goofed at the Ministry of Information. This was supposed to be a Friday News Dump, not Thursday.

[Canuckistanian]

21. Even the propagandists are incompetent

Either that or they outsourced the press release publishing.... to Dubai.

[Jack Rabbit]

24. Didn't we just go through somehting like this?

Is this deja vu all over again?

[jerry611]

25. Dubai gave money to Bush's dad

So now Jr has to pay the piper.

One way or another Bush will get something sold for his family's buddies in UAE.

[fearnobush]

26. Help stop the Friday evening News Dumb, tell NYT and Wapo to page A1 the

story on Monday morning again.

[YankeyMCC]

27. K & R

I was just about to post this.

[truthisfreedom]

28. he just doesn't want to get re-elected again, does he?

i mean, at this point, he's got a snowball's chance of beating Hillary.

sigh.

our so-called president has wet himself again.

[Toucano]

76. err...he can't get re-elected again because he was never elected

in the first place.

[liberal N proud]

29. When will this evil monster just give the whole country to Dubai?

When will the Congress and America wake the fuck up?

WE ARE SCREWED.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

30. Is he TRYING to kill us?

Oh, wait... :eyes:

[CJCRANE]

31. The War on Terror is a a double-bluff.

The whole war on terror is the cleverest double-bluff in history. Whiltst the freepers
are foaming at the mouth about "mooslims" Bushco is selling everything off to his buddies in the ME oil monarchies.

Expect this to knock another 5% off *'s approval rating. By the time he hits 0% he'll have sold off the whole of America.

[Ilsa]

50. The ME is just a big PAWN SHOP for Boosh. I think he really intends on

buying it all back at a later date when we're flush with cash. Of course, there's a pretty high rate of interest to pay. :sarcasm:

[Julius Civitatus]

32. It never stop. It really never f*cking stops with these bastards

Remember what Michael Moore said in Fahrenheit 9/11:

Okay, let's say one group of people, like the American people pay you $400,000 a year to be president of the United States.

But then another group of people (Poppy's Saudi friends) invest in you, your friends and their related businesses, $ 1.4 billion over a number of years.

Who are you gonna like? Who's your daddy?

[Media_Lies_Daily]

33. He never learns, does he?

[AzDar]

34. W. T. F.?? I'm sending this to Lou Dobbs, whom I used to think

was an idiot. Now that we're living in the Twilight Zone, I look to him to disseminate (at least a portion of) the truth regarding the mis-deeds of Chimpolini's administration.
Crazy, Baby.

[doc mercer]

35. Port Deal

Is anyone remembering Neil Bushs role ....

that POS had his sw company funded to the tune of 23 million
by this country if I recall

[Julius Civitatus]

46. It's all in the family

That's how the Bushes operate.

[Exiled in America]

77. He's a racist xenophobe 99.99% of the time.

[Mist]

36. Just a question: Aren't these privately owned companies? CAN * sell them?

[drm604]

40. They are owned by a British Company.

Bush can't personally sell them, but he can approve the deal. Read the NY Times article.

[Selteri]

37. What's next, giving the Saudis control over our Nuculear arsenal?

[Chiyo-chichi]

38. Why don't we just hire them to occupy Iraq for us?

[jody]

41. Makes sense since the U.S. military is now a Foreign Legion for the NWO.

:sarcasm:

[Sparkly]

43. It's official

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060428/pl_nm/security_dubai_bush_dc

[Julius Civitatus]

45. Lovely. Just f*cking lovely!

:mad:

[Barrett808]

47. Wonder what the Freeper take is. n/t

[DemoTex]

48. About 7.8 on the Richter Scale.

[Barrett808]

49. Has anybody ventured over to sample some choice posts?

Somebody with a stronger stomach than me, that is.

[truthisfreedom]

54. i couldn't find the article over there.

maybe someone with more patience.

[Ilsa]

58. Here you go. I had to do a search. I really need those brillo pads

now for my shower:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1623127/posts

We're selling our soul to the devil, IMHO.
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We need to roust up the ports coalition to press the White House on this one.
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Then we have a $20 million grant to Harvard University by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal for the establishment of an Islamic Studies program. Harvard can be bought.

Then we have the purchase of 230 Park Avenue last fall by Dubai's crown prince Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. This is the building near New York's Grand Central Station.

The major customers of Doncasters, a UK-based manufacturer of parts for military aircraft, tanks, and petrochemical markets with plants throughout the US and Europe, is Boeing, Honeywell, Siemens, and General Electric.

As I say, we are selling our souls, with the military support business leading the way.

Thank you, President Bush, for buying into the globalist jihad by stealth attitude that is so politically correct today. I'm sure you are smart, and all, but why am I feeling like the rug has just been pulled out from under me?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I know the place. Teh Helmsley Building, right? The one you see if you come out of Grnad Central via the foremr Pan Am building (now the Met Life building.)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Time for the xenophobes to, once again, kick an Arab country in the teeth that's working closely with us in the War on Terror.
BTW, has any American company stepped up and bought the contracts to the American port terminals from DPW?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

As I say, we are selling our souls,
Who's "we"?

Doncasters is a British company. We have no say in who Doncasters decides to sell to. This one is a bit more complicated, since some very large American companies are customers of Doncasters, and they're not going to switch vendors for some of these critical parts.


That's all there was on Freak for now.

[Barrett808]

67. Thanks for the search! n/t

[Julius Civitatus]

60. Freepers are too busy obsessing about Mexican immigrants right now

Just as Rove told them to, they are busy focusing their racist anger on Mexican immigrants. They are still frothing at the idea of a Spanish version of the pledge of allegiance to notice about Bush selling more shit to Dubai.

[lonestarnot]

51. It's a done deal.

Stake to the heart bushitler!

[Fridays Child]

52. k/r

[lovuian]

53. This is military!!!

Unfreakingbelievable!!!

[superconnected]

55. Wow, they topped their bad decision of handing the bases to Dubia.

Now will their republican base go along with it? Yes they will. Moaning and complaining but voting the infidels in all the way.

[superconnected]

57. Who sold out America. George Bush sold out America.

And the dumbass republicans thought it would be the anti-war protestors.

[KoKo]

59. If Clinton had done it................n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

61. and where to the profits go and where do taxes get paid?

I guess since these were owned by a British company before, they were not part of the American economy before anyway. :grr: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

We will be like a third world country, with every resource we have owned by some other country.

[newspeak]

62. maybe someone can help me on this

is it true that the attack on the USS Cole, the terrorists had infilterated Dubai Port as employees?

[Charlie Brown]

64. with all the groaning conservatives do over the UN and peacekeeping

you'd think would be outraged by a foreign interest controlling our military industrial complex. I guess when there's money to be made, placing the US in a vassal position to foreign entities is perfectly acceptable.

[Zynx]

68. Dubai Dubya strikes again!

[Oak2004]

69. you know, the word that pops into my head

about our illustrious leader who has so decisively failed to defend our borders, has all but turned us into a vassal state of the Chinese, has destabilized a strategically important region of the world, and is trying desperately to sell our national security infrastructure to the people who financed the breach of our borders?

The word is "traitor".

I'm an old liberal Republican (yep, we used to exist, once upon a time ago). I've never been terribly worried about national security issues before, because most of my life the US has been secure. We had natural resources, a production capacity able to overwhelm any opponent, technological innovation, and a superbly trained military. The supposed threat to the US from Communism looked to me like a mix of exaggeration and dark fantasy.

But this current Administration has managed to convert the dark fantasies of the paranoids into actual reality. We are in an increasingly desperate security situation, and the mole, the traitor who has sold us out, is sitting in the White House, telling us that only he can keep us safe.

[shadowknows69]

72. Spot on

Well said Oak. :applause:

[NVMojo]

70. America is just too damn distracted right now but when we invaded Iran

then it will be too late. Dubai Bush pals will profit and we will have lost net neutrality. Too late. Sigh ....

[0007]

71. bttft

[goforit]

73. This is unconsciounable!!! TREASONIST to the max!!

Bush is attacking our country right now!!!

He is doing everything to destroy it!!!

He is using his own personal vengence against Americans related
to his plummetting poll numbers!!!!

FBI???
CIA???
US Military???(army / airforce / navy)
Washington District Police???

Where the f*ck are y'all???

This is grounds for an immediate arrest!!!!

[Up2Late]

74. Here it is! Bush approves Dubai buying defense supplier (Reuters)

Bush approves Dubai buying defense supplier

Sat Apr 29, 2006 08:19 AM ET

By Caren Bohan and Susan Cornwell

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush approved on Friday a Dubai-owned company's $1.24 billion takeover of Doncasters, a British engineering company with U.S. plants that supply the Pentagon.

Hoping to avert the sort of controversy that erupted over another Dubai state-owned company's plan to acquire operations at U.S. ports, Bush signed off on the deal after getting company assurances that the military supply chain would not be broken, the White House said.

Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, a leading opponent of the failed deal that would have given Dubai Ports World control of major U.S. port operations, said he would not oppose the purchase of Doncasters by Dubai International Capital. But another lawmaker, Democratic Rep. John Barrow of Georgia, said he wanted more details.

"Congressional oversight means accountability and accountability will help make sure that we don't sell off a piece of our military industrial complex today that we wish we had back tomorrow," Barrow said in a statement.

(more at link)

<http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=12017022&src=rss/politicsNews>