You goddamn well know I'm not two faced, so kindly take that little insult elsewhere. Besides, how the blue hell do you KNOW I didn't bitch about the Long Beach facility back then? Huh?
Try this on for size:
A major part of the story, however, has been mostly overlooked. The company, Dubai Ports World, would also control the movement of military equipment on behalf of the U.S. Army through two other ports. From today’s edition of the British paper Lloyd’s List:
[P&O] has just renewed a contract with the United States Surface Deployment and Distribution Command to provide stevedoring [loading and unloading] of military equipment at the Texan ports of Beaumont and Corpus Christi through 2010.
According to the journal Army Logistician “Almost 40 percent of the Army cargo deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom flows through these two ports.”
Thus, the sale would give a country that has been “a key transfer point for illegal shipments of nuclear components to Iran, North Korea and Lybia” direct control over substantial quantities U.S. military equipment.
(Now look me square in the eye and tell me you want a foreign country having anything to do with controlling the ports that ship out equipment to the troops, never mind the rest of it?)
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Date: 2006-02-22 05:17 pm (UTC)You goddamn well know I'm not two faced, so kindly take that little insult elsewhere. Besides, how the blue hell do you KNOW I didn't bitch about the Long Beach facility back then? Huh?
Try this on for size:
A major part of the story, however, has been mostly overlooked. The company, Dubai Ports World, would also control the movement of military equipment on behalf of the U.S. Army through two other ports. From today’s edition of the British paper Lloyd’s List:
[P&O] has just renewed a contract with the United States Surface Deployment and Distribution Command to provide stevedoring [loading and unloading] of military equipment at the Texan ports of Beaumont and Corpus Christi through 2010.
According to the journal Army Logistician “Almost 40 percent of the Army cargo deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom flows through these two ports.”
Thus, the sale would give a country that has been “a key transfer point for illegal shipments of nuclear components to Iran, North Korea and Lybia” direct control over substantial quantities U.S. military equipment.
(Now look me square in the eye and tell me you want a foreign country having anything to do with controlling the ports that ship out equipment to the troops, never mind the rest of it?)