Buy America

Too late...it's already been sold.

Bushco now wants DPW to "partner" with a down-home U.S. firm to allay concerns over foreign ownership. One of the potential suitors? You guessed it: HALLIBURTON.

New York Daily News - Home - Dubai Dubya in dash for lifeboat

WASHINGTON - The White House is quietly pushing a Dubai company to "significantly restructure" and partner up with a U.S. outfit to keep the port deal from sinking, sources told the Daily News yesterday.

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One snag to such a deal may be that sources say the U.S. company best equipped to partner with DP World is Halliburton, once headed by Vice President Cheney.

After undergoing so much scrutiny for its no-bid Iraq contract and the handling of some of its duties there, Halliburton may not be able to help DP World land the deal, a source admitted.

This beings new meaning to the "Buy America" requirements in contracts involving federal money.

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