Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (276609)	2/25/2006 2:06:15 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578024

I sense that by granting the ports, he was returning a favor of some sort and they thought they could get it through quietly. Dude, he (Bush) had zero involvement until the public uproar. If the Dubai-based company hadn't bought the British company with the contracts, then a Singaporean company would have bought them. The bidding war between Dubai and Singapore had been in the papers here for 1-2 months, and the security issue never even came up until some US politicians with nothing else to say started making it sound like a big deal. If the Singaporeans had bought the British firm, most Americans would probably never have heard ANYTHING about this subject.