From: Adam 

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> "Adam"  wrote in message
news:43f9a94e{at}w3....
>> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>>> I have no problem with each country controlling their port of entry. I
>>> reckon the Gambino and Genovese mafia clans that have controled ports in
>>> New York for ages haven't paid their neocon dues lately
>>>
>> Shrug. Multinational comps are multinational comps. I did laugh out loud
>> when on TV there was some pol from New York saying how Dubai/the USA had a
>> long history of terrorism etc e.g.:
>>
>> ""It's unbelievably tone-deaf politically at this point
in our history,
>> four years after 9-11, to entertain the idea of turning port security over
>> to a company based in the UAE, who avows to destroy Israel,"
Sen. Lindsey
>> Graham, R-S.C., said in a Fox News Sunday interview."
>>
>> &
>>
>> "Critics have cited the UAE's history as an operational and
financial base
>> for the hijackers who carried out the attacks of Sept. 11. In addition,
>> they contend the UAE was an important transfer point for shipments of
>> smuggled nuclear components sent to Iran, North Korea and Libya by a
>> Pakistani scientist."
>>
>> So poor old condi is having to duck & weave e.g.:
>>
>> ""I would hope that our friends in Abu Dhabi would not
be offended by the
>> fact that in our democracy, we debate these things," Rice said in the
>> interview with the Arab journalists."
>>
>> I love the fact that Britain controls all the major east/gulf coast US
>> ports..ahhh plus ca change 
>>
>> So the Gulf states are your allies etc & let you base ships in
Bahrain, HQ
>> in Qatar, Bombers etc in Oman & yet....
>>
>> Adam
>
> Oh yeah - We should have a lot of confidence in what Homeland Security
> Secretary Michael Chertoff tells us as he handled the Katrina event so well.
>
> Does Britain 'trust' all their allies? Wasn't Saddam once considered an
> American ally? It's just a partnership of convenience.
> "It's unbelievably tone deaf politically at this point in our
history," Sen.
> Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., said on "Fox News Sunday."
>
>
> "Most Americans are scratching their heads, wondering why this company from
> this region now," Graham said.
>
>
>

Coz if the reverse was to be the case US oil comps would prospect for oil
only in the US etc.etc.

Global capitalism is global.



Adam

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