Invasive tropical plants?

• 34 major scandals during bush's first term - gt
  • Mostly accusations - Rep
    • Well, NORMAL people don't perceive them to be so. Nuff said. - TM
      • Hello, unless there has been a verdict in a trial, it IS only an accusation. - Have you forgotten our laws?
        • This admin. doesn't ALLOW itself to be put on trial. - Zauber
        • I was agreeing with you. - TM
          • Why don't you take your little argument over to the CON board. - Suggestion
            • Don't ask them to leave. - Libby
              • It'd be useless anyway - they can't help themselves. - Zauber
              • Our hatred? Please refer to post above by your compassionate left - about the Bush drinking article. Spare me.
              • Not really, those are plants. Not hard to stop. Probably is you. - Yeah
                • This is getting better every minute, MT. You claim to know who's AGAINST you when you can't - Libby
                  • And you keep posting LIbby..er..gt...er Dixie Doo. I would like to say you are entertaining but sm - sm
                    • LOL, three different posters, I assure you - gt
                  • Unfortunately, you are not. - Entertaining
                • Invasive tropical plants? - Yup-yup
            • No, but thanks for asking. It appears liberal kiddie garden has let out and they are at play - TM
              • yeah, you are sure right about that. - Yup-yup
                • No, only the ones made by liberals. - TM
                  • So you are psychic? - Yup-yup
                    • Need new insult. Yours getting old. Look up on internet. Do better. - ?
                      • Why you talk strange? - Huh?
                        • English not so good. Sad for you. So much hate. Life too short hate. - Me
                          • Have much love, too. - Huh
                            • Is good, but not see here. Sad for all both sides. - Yes
                              • True that is. - huh
                                • thank you, Yoda - x
    • You have to excuse them, after Bill and Hill, scandal is just part - of normalcy for them. nm
      • Talking about scandolous...There's nothing more scandolous...sm - Democrat
        • Should be *wipe* not whip... :) - Democrat

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McCain has.  And you think McCain's mind is still sharp?  If it is, it hasn't been coming across that way lately, especially last week.  He better come across as sharp this week and at the debates.  Speaking of McCain's health, I'm going to post something up at the top about that. 

Doesn't this just give you a warm fuzzy?

Dubai's $1.2 Bln Bid for U.S. Weapons Maker Delayed (Update2)

March 20 (Bloomberg) -- Dubai, which agreed this month to sell its interest in U.S. ports, said its $1.2 billion takeover of a U.K. company with U.S. plants that make military equipment is delayed while the authorities investigate security concerns.

Dubai International Capital LLC, which is owned by the government of the Persian Gulf emirate, and Doncasters Group Ltd. agreed to delay the transaction by as many as two months from March 31 while government agencies review the purchase, Sameer Al Ansari, Dubai International's chief executive, said in an interview today.

``After what happened with Dubai Ports, the government is looking at this deal more closely,'' Al Ansari said after a press conference in Dubai announcing an agreement with HSBC Holdings Plc.

Dubai's bid may ignite a similar political furor in the U.S. to that the emirate's purchase of London-based Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. caused last month when DP World had to agree to sell interests in six U.S. terminals. Revenue from Doncasters' nine U.S. plants, which make parts for tanks and military aircraft, account for about 40 percent of total sales.

The derailing of the ports plan was a setback for President George W. Bush, who was rebuffed by fellow Republicans and stung by polls that showed strong public opposition to the sale. Dubai is one of seven sheikdoms making up the United Arab Emirates, from where two of the hijackers involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks came.

The Committee on Foreign Investment, a federal body which considers the sale of U.S. assets to foreign companies, started a more detailed 45-day investigation into the Doncasters agreement at the end of February, said Al Ansari.

Al Ansari declined to comment on whether the transaction will go through.

Dubai Investments

Dubai International last year spent $1 billion for a stake in DaimlerChrysler AG and 800 million pounds ($1.4 billion) for Tussauds Group, owner of London's Madame Tussauds waxworks museum.

Doncasters, which is based in Melbourne, England, has plants in Rincon, Georgia; Groton, Connecticut, and other U.S. sites. Its customers include Boeing Co. and General Electric Co., according to information on its Web site.

Gulf Arab governments, flush with record oil revenue, are spending billions of dollars on companies from South Korea to the U.S.

Kuwait's state-controlled PWC Logistics, which won a U.S. military contract last year worth as much as $14 billion to feed troops in Iraq, agreed in July to buy Santa Ana, California-based GeoLogistics Corp. for $454 million. GeoLogistics is an international freight management company with operations in more than 100 countries, according to its Web site.

To contact the reporter on this story:

James Cordahi in Dubai at  cherifcord@bloomberg.net