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I'm loving how Democrats have gone to the right of George Bush on this issue and are fanning the flames of fear and xenophobia.
If you actually went on researched what the facts are, you'd see:
-The ports are owned by state port authorities who lease container teriminals for corporations to operate
-Container Terminals are where cargo is offloaded from ships for transportation usually to trucks or trains and are only small portions of the entire port.
-Security is the responsibility of the Coast Guard as well as Homeland Security
-This whole deal arose because Dubai Ports World bought out the British P&O company.
-The US government is only involved because they have to approve the merger since the sale involves assets in the US.
-Foreign companies have run container terminals in the United States for a some time now and are nothing new.
This whole storm in a teacup is the product of kneejerk reactionaries, political oppurtunists and a pathetic MSM that can't report anything accurately for shit.