The point is that Bush is outsourcing our port security to a foreign govt.

[bigtree]

while Bush siphons off the money that should have gone to the Coast Guard and other American security agencies who should be our primary defenders.

Money that is going to tax breaks, corporate bailouts, and war should be used to bolster our port security so that any 'control' of our nation's security by any company who might buy an interest in the ports is superfluous to our own security infrastructure.

The sell-off of the port security interests underscores just how negligent and indifferent Bush is to our nation's security and how eager he is to outsource functions of our government that the republican majority has ignored and all but abandoned.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. My rejoinder to apologist wingnut Bushsuckers:

How is this any different from turning airport security over to Saudi Arabia? Would you be OK with that? SA is our ally in the WOT, right? So why not have them manage the TSA? Globalization is Good, and of course we need to keep courting allies in the Middle East. Seems like a reasonable plan to me.

Hmm?

[flordehinojos]

2. how is CSX connected to Ubai World Port ...there is a connection...

i am not sure but i think it goes like this, Bush is selling management of our ports to Ubai, a UAE owned company, Ubai has a contract with CSX to pay them FOR some sort of service AND CSX has been bougth by ... THE CARLYLE GROUP which is owned by the BUSH FAMILY.

do please correct me if i am wrong, and do please, make this tangled up mess clearer for me. thanks!

[Emit]

4. Here's some info on this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=473881&mesg_id=474942

Actually, it looks like Carlyle sold Horizon

In MAY 26, 2004

~snip~
• Castle Harlan buys Horizon for $650m
HORIZON Lines, the former Jones Act containership arm of transport giant CSX, has been sold for $650m to New York equity firm Castle Harlan only 15 months after Carlyle Group of Washington bought it from CSX for $315m.
~snip~

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:6DktlXmEnVoJ:www.informare.it/news/review/2004/b260504.asp+Carlyle+Dubai+Ports+World&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=35

Also, just to clarify, I think it's Dubai Ports World.

[flordehinojos]

5. thanks much, both for the link to an answer to my question, and to the

clarification on the name of the UAE's company, DPW.
:)

[eggman67]

3. It was already outsourced to a foreign company.

I hate this, but I'm not happy about the way it was either.