I am shocked that we would be outsourcing the operation of our ports to any country. What no one seems to recognize is that the British operation that ran them previously was a private company, owned by shareholders. The Dubai operation is owned by that country's GOVERNMENT. This is the same government that helped launder al aqaida money, that allowed some of thr 9/11 hijackers free passage, and the same government that is sometimes cooperative with the US and sometimes not.

Also, some of the proponents are claiming that the Dubai ownership group has nothing to do with security, yet one administration spokesperson has said that in doing the deal we made them make extra concessions regarding their operation of certain aspects of security. So which is it?

How this could have slipped through the cracks this far tells me once again that George Bush is asleep at the switch. He is not leading this country. He has delegated it to aides, and because of it thereis no central authority that would stop such bonehead moves in the future. It looks like the senate may well muster enough votes to override a veto because this has become a bipartisan issue.