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Here’s a complete list of the port operations, directly from the P & O web site. In addition to the container operations at 5 major ports (counting New York/New Jersey as one entity), there are P & O operations in 16 other American cities. The recent news stories that say “deal has been extended to 21 cities” is misleading–it ALWAYS included those 21 cities.

Here’s the list:

Portland, ME
Boston, MA
Davisville, RI
New York/New Jersey
Philadelphia, PA
Camden, NJ
Wilmington, DE
Baltimore, MD
Norfolk, VA
Miami, FL
Gulfport, MS
New Orleans, LA
Lake Charles, LA
Beaumont, TX
Port Arthur. TX
Galveston. TX
Houston. TX
Freeport. TX
Corpus Christi. TX

Of special interest is the following (P & O transports military equipment for the Army!):

Port of Beaumont
The Port of Beaumont, situated 84 miles east of Houston and 270 miles west of New Orleans and is accessible from the Gulf of Mexico and Intercoastal Waterway via the federally maintained Sabine-Neches Ship Channel, 42 miles upstream from the Gulf. The channel is 400 ft. wide and maintained at a depth of 40 ft. with an air draft of 136 ft.

P&O Ports Texas provides the following at the Beaumont multi-purpose terminal:
· Stevedoring services at all Port facilities
· Contract stevedore for the U.S. Army
· Bulk stevedoring services at the Dreyfus Grain Elevator

The 45-day “cooling off period” is meaningless. According to the UK filing of December 20, 2005, the deal was conditional on US government approval. The only legal way the US component of the deal could be stopped was to have CFIUS do a 30 review, kick it upstairs for a formal, 45-day investigation. The results of that investigation would trigger a Presidential determination (binding in court) and mandate Congressional disclosure.

The 30 review “found no national security concerns”, so the fiction of a 45 day investigation is merely window dressing. The President is unlikely to stop the deal and, even if he did, DP World has indicated it may sue to enforce the US portion of the deal to close.

DP World will be the leaseholder as of March 2, but will not “take over” the ports until the results of the 45 day investigation are revealed.

If I close on my house in March, but don’t move in until May, I still own that house!

Bury it, and hhim along with it.

Congress can pass whatever legislation they wish to,like they did in the Terri Schiavo case,but it doesn’t mean they know what they’re doing.

Why would it matter if GWB knew or didn’t know about the deal? But the reason he came out and said he would veto the legislation is that the deal had been approved.

If Congress does craft legislation,I don’t know that they can treat the UAE company differently than they can treat, say China (Cosco) which is operating a terminal on the West Coast. Equal protection applies I believe.
Clinton was talking about legislation that would forbid any foreign government holding a company that could operate any terminal. Perhaps she’s not aware that is already the case.

If a veto occurs and is then overridden,it could well go to the Supreme Court. The question is if one part of the government negotiated with a company and as a result approved the transaction,can Congress void that approval by passing an ex post facto law.
If you remember,that was one of the questions in the Terri Schiavo case.

So,the answers are 1) the president doesn’t have to approve a transaction of this type (or even have to know of it) in order for it to be legal;2)
Congress has assumed a role in this otherwise routine business transaction because of the UAE government being the owner of the DPW company (although they didn’t seem to mind a Chinese Communist company operating on the West Coast);
He threatened a veto because Congress raised the possibility of passing legislation I think as an indication of his belief the deal had been approved.
Where you get this idea of invasion,armed intervention and the rest is beyond me,this is about a business deal. The fact that you don’t understand the deal,the process or the outcome other than you just won’t have no foreigners operating shows how far behind you are. The foreigners are all over.
Let me ask you if you would be comfortable if Turkish companies (with governemnt control) operated steel mills in the US. How about Brazilians?
What foreigners would you be comfortable with?

The administration did not require Dubai Ports to keep copies of business records on US soil, where they would be subject to court orders. It also did not require the company to designate an American citizen to accommodate US government requests. Outside legal experts said such obligations are routinely attached to US approvals of foreign sales in other industries. […]

Under the deal, the government asked Dubai Ports to operate American seaports with existing US managers “to the extent possible.”

It promised to take “all reasonable steps” to assist the Homeland Security Department.

I, too, noted this little clause and I think that is the heart of the matter in the DPW deal.
No records here, no ability to employ FOIA, and no American appointed as liason/interpreter.
This is so apparently an under-the-table, pay-off/bribe,
dirty deal — what is amazing is that they nearly got away with it, because they sure didn’t plan for the firestorm coming when the public learned of it.

One more time and I will give up. According to what I can glean from your posts DPW bought out P&O which included some leases of US port facilities. I have no argument with that at all. You say the deal was approved by the US Government. I won’t agree or disagree as I don’t know. What is a fact is that King George the Dumb, the Duke of Dubai, told Congress and the American People that he had no knowledge of the deal but if Congress passed a bill interfering in any way with the invasion of our ports he would veto it. If you want to argue up to this point there is no point in proceeding because this has been the crux of your argument so far: that Congress does not have the power to prevent the Arabs from operating our port system. If you wish to proceed please answer these questions:

1. If Bush knew nothing about this deal then why is it legal when he is, by definition, the “Government” leader charged with the operation of the “Buck Stops Here” Country?

2. If the deal is legal why would Bush threaten the Congress if they did the job they were elected to do and provide oversight to those things Bush didn’t know about?

3. Obviously Bush knows the Congress has the power to quash the deal or why would he have threatened veto?

4. If Congress passes a bill and then overrides a Presidential veto does the bill not become a law?

5. If the law is passed is it the SCOTUS that much decide the constitutionality of the law?

6. Can any entity associated with DPW or P&O override the decision of SCOTUS and move into our ports without armed intervention with the operation of the legitimate government of the US?

Get over your little pouty fit and move down the road past the rest stop. Look at the big picture and answer the little questions. Give old Yogi credit because the Fat Lady don’t sing in Arabic.

Clyde,you must live in one sorry world where no one can disagree with you on any issue. I voted for Kerry how about you?
Your impeachment fantasy is imperiling that part of your brain you need to think.

Your Buddy Scooter seems to think I am right. He claims Fitz can’t indict him because the President didn’t asSIGN him and Congress approve him. If that holds true of a lowly special prosecutor it must hold true for the invasion of a foreign Government occupying our ports. The argument that the Fox said it was alright for him to guard the hen house (”I’m saying what company spokespeople have said on behalf of both P&O and DPW.”)doesn’t make it so. P&O and DPW are not US Government Officials, they are not US Government Elected Representatives. The fact that they bought a few of the above does not make them the fox. Maybe Sharon and I are just too old to understand how the system that has worked for over 200 years is no longer any good because we now have a wannabe king. I don’t have any inside information but I will place my usual odds ($20 to a glass of warm pee) that this deal will not go down through, or if it does (double or nothing)it will guarantee the impeachment of Bush and then will be cancelled.

The administration did not require Dubai Ports to keep copies of business records on US soil, where they would be subject to court orders. It also did not require the company to designate an American citizen to accommodate US government requests. Outside legal experts said such obligations are routinely attached to US approvals of foreign sales in other industries. [...]

Under the deal, the government asked Dubai Ports to operate American seaports with existing US managers “to the extent possible.”

It promised to take “all reasonable steps” to assist the Homeland Security Department.