And another piece of our nation’s “military industrial complex” is now the property of those who funded our enemies.
Bush approves Dubai buying defense supplier
WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush approved on Friday a Dubai-owned company’s $1.24 billion takeover of Doncasters, a British engineering company with U.S. plants that supply the Pentagon.
Hoping to avert the sort of controversy that erupted over another Dubai state-owned company’s plan to acquire operations at U.S. ports, Bush signed off on the deal after getting company assurances that the military supply chain would not be broken, the White House said.
Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, a leading opponent of the failed deal that would have given Dubai Ports World control of major U.S. port operations, said he would not oppose the purchase of Doncasters by Dubai International Capital. But another lawmaker, Democratic Rep. John Barrow of Georgia, said he wanted more details.
“Congressional oversight means accountability and accountability will help make sure that we don’t sell off a piece of our military industrial complex today that we wish we had back tomorrow,” Barrow said in a statement.
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Although Democratic Representative John Barrow spoke up, I don’t think he spoke loudly enough.
Everyone is just rolling over on this one. I think it was probably a mistake. While the UAE is a current “ally”, I don’t think that a nation that was helping our enemies about 5 years ago should be involved in any part of military production or other security related matters.
Now that it’s a done deal, I guess we better pray I was totally wrong about this one.
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April 29th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
Dubya approves of Dubai’s buying Doncasters
Uh oh. Here’s something that anyone who didn’t like the Dubai ports deal might want to take notice of. From Reuters: