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**DrunkMans** · 03-01-2006, 09:08 PM

The key sticking point here is that Dubai DP World is owned by the Dubai government; it is not merely a foreign-owned company.

The laws in the US call for a specific review procedure when a company is government-owned -- and by all indications the required process was bypassed to some degree by the Bush administration.

yeah but what you have to remember is the the Emirate (Dubai) has a population of just half a million people. Some American corporations have more than that. Describing them as a government is really aggrandising them imho. Think of their "government" more as a board of directors.

03-01-2006, 09:08 PM	#20
DrunkMans Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 457 Senior Member	The key sticking point here is that Dubai DP World is owned by the Dubai *government;* it is not merely a foreign-owned company. The laws in the US call for a specific review procedure when a company is government-owned -- and by all indications the required process was bypassed to some degree by the Bush administration. yeah but what you have to remember is the the Emirate (Dubai) has a population of just half a million people. Some American corporations have more than that. Describing them as a government is really aggrandising them imho. Think of their "government" more as a board of directors.
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