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To: combjelly who wrote (276070)	2/22/2006 3:32:11 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1588187

"That transaction requires the approval of the US gov't; otherwise, the contract for managing the US ports can be cancelled." To be more precise, it requires 45 days of evaluation before it is signed off personally by the president. Which, if the Whitehouse is to be believed, didn't happen. To make my position clear, I don't really see anything wrong with this deal. I only have a problem with the fact the company is state owned. There is a greater possibility of ideology playing a role........after all, Iranians make up 23% of UAE's population. In addition, Joe Scarsborough claimed they sold Pakistani nukes to NK. However, I see no evidence of that on the net. However, it is interesting to see the administration first say that this deal is important in the interest of fairness and then claim that they didn't know anything about it. Of course, they have to backtrack........every Republican on the east coast is going ballistic. And the second response is probably the right one.....they didn't know. Certainly, political hacks like Scarsborough are trying to pass it off as a move by mid level bureacrats. What is exactly fair about racial profiling and extraordinary redention is a question that isn't answered, I suppose the need for 'fairness' scales with the bank account. And if they really didn't know anything about it, then the approval is yet another breach of the law, one that is hard to argue was done on national security grounds... Well the only people who have been fooled into thinking the country is safer due to Bush are his supporters.