I think only those senators/reps from states with ports affected....

[LynneSin]

should be allowed to vote on whether or not to allow UAE to run our ports. I don't want some dumbass in landlocked nowhere telling what us coastal states have to put up with. God Forbid if Nebraska or Kansas (and nothing against good liberals from those states but let's face it - you have dumbasses for senators) decided to have UAE run their airport security or prisons or hell mall security then you know there would be hell to pay.

Port of Wilmington (in my home state) has a small part of this deal and the port is five miles from a Nuclear Power Plant. I don't want countries that harbor terrorists running my ports. Gov. Ed Rendell has the best plan - he'll just let the leases run out when they expire in May.

[aquart]

1. I'm more basic. NO foreign management of American ports.

Most insane thing I have ever heard.

[LynneSin]

2. Well they were being run by the British

But as someone pointed out (and I believe it was Gov. Rendell), the British was a privately owned company whereas this company in Dubai is owned by the Royal Government Family.

[aquart]

9. I'm so thrilled.

I did not know about the British, or the Chinese, or the Scots running our ports until the Dubai deal was made public. I never so much as imagined any US administration would be demented enough to do such a thing.

I am boggled by it. Stunned. We have fallen so low we are unable to manage access to our own nation? Running a port is too complicated for our simple uneducated minds? That's what we're supposed to believe?

This is an outrage.

[melissinha]

3. I disagree

I think you can do with support with the likes of Russ Feingold, yes he's a cheesehead but he's a real patriot who is concerned about security.

Next chance I get I'll ask my boyfriend's brother, who works in Homeland Security for Baltimore, what he thinks about this...

[LynneSin]

4. I agree we'd lose a few of our strongest allies

but too many people, especially these inland repukes, look questionable. From what I'm reading about this committee hearing, the repukes just want to review everything but eventually they'll cave to Bush.

Here's what we'd have for votes:

New York: Two Democratic Senators
New Jersey: Two Democratic Senators
Pennsylvania: Two Republican Senators but I could see Spector standing against this deal
Baltimore MD: Two Democratic Senators
Miami Florida: A senator from each party
New Orleans: A senator from each party

Let these states decide if they want UAE running their ports and I think you'll find most don't (BTW, Wilmington is partially owned by the people who own the port in Philadelphia so we are not directly affected)

[melissinha]

8. Did this deal also include Corpus Christi and Beaumont?

I think I heard something about that.... that would mean that you'd pit two of Bush's biggest whores against your allstar team.... I absolutely loathe Hutchison and Cornyn...

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/20/uae-military-equipment/

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:

has just renewed a contract with the United States Surface Deployment and Distribution Command to provide stevedoring 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.”

[MuseRider]

5. No offense taken

I would be more than happy if my two, Brownback and Roberts, were never allowed to vote on anything.

[SaveElmer]

6. Be careful what you wish for...

Should only Senators in Alaska be allowed to vote on drilling in ANWR ?

[LynneSin]

7. Damn, you got me there

:D