Dubais Ports Deal Derailed; Solved they say... The solution (Halliburton) IS WORSE!

Yikes: From ThinkProgress:

Today Dubai Ports World announced it would “transfer fully the U.S. operations…to a United States entity.” This evening on the PBS News Hour, AEI scholar Norm Ornstein said that DP World was considering selling its U.S. operations to Halliburton...
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...(T)here simply aren’t American companies that have the know-how and the breadth to do this. Interestingly, and perhaps ironically, what I had heard earlier in the day, as they were looking at those that have the — the kind of resources, Halliburton was a name that came up.

First of all, Halliburton, Dick Cheney's baby(evil offspring), is NOT an American company -- not by any stretch or definition. So don't feel relieved... I'd rather the ports be managed by a foreign company, under great suspicion, than being run by Halliburton under less suspicion. American company... Ha! If you believe that, I'll get you some nice office-space in the World Trade Center; Cheap, dude! Later, Herb.