[Kaslin]

Please freep-mail me if you want to be on my IBD Editorial ping list

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[ronnie raygun]

Remember who voted this down!

[reg45]

I wonder how many of those unionized workers at L/M voted for “0”?

[Tarpon]

This is really simple, the F-22 is a first strike weapon. Muslims get scared of this, especially Iranians and othe nuclear aspirants.

ZERO said her would defang America.

[org.whodat]

Why don't they call IBD, stuff bloggs, since that is what they really are.

What wrong with the Japanese throwing their money away, good for them. Has nothing to do with the united states not buying the over priced garbage.

[thefrankbaum]

Republicans voting against the Raptor:

• Alexander, Tennessee;
• Barrasso, Wyoming;
• Bond, Missouri;
• Coburn, Oklahoma;
• Corker, Tennessee;
• DeMint, South Carolina;
• Ensign, Nevada;
• Enzi, Wyoming;
• Graham, South Carolina;
• Gregg, New Hampshire;
• Kyl, Arizona;
• Lugar, Indiana;
• McCain, Arizona;
• Shelby, Alabama;
• Voinovich, Ohio.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The TARP bailout may hit $24 trillion, but the Senate says the F-22 is too expensive to build and maintain. So why are the Japanese so desperate to buy this "unnecessary" Cold War weapon?

Not just the Japanese, the Australians too. And the Indians are looking to drop 12 billion dollars on new fighters, I'd guess they'd be interested. Why is the US so determined not to sell these? They're older technology, aren't they?

[ebiskit]

Now how much money was given to Acorn again? $6-8 billion if I remember correctly.

China, Russia, Venezuala, NoKo, Iran all still exist & are gunning for us.

I guess people forget what deterrent means.

tahDeetz

[Deagle]

Not sure...but I think that I agree with the cut. I would rather see the money spent on the strike fighter. I know this will (may) rile some, but I see both as useful, but the strike fighter more promising and needed immediately. The F22 may be a requirement in a few years...

[SunkenCiv]

"The plane is too good! It's an air superiority weapon. Wouldn't be fair to (ahem) other countries. Die Infidels!"

[Bryan24]

Here’s a newsflash for some of you:

When an air war is fought, the side flying 40 year-old designs is in trouble.

The F-15 is a 40 year old design. (”An industry-wide competition ended on December 23, 1969 when McDonnell Douglas was awarded the contract for the F-15.” - GlobalSecurity.org)

Yeah, improvements have been made, but it is still a 40 year-old design.

The F-16? 35 years old. (”On 13 January 1975 the Air Force announced that the YF-16’s performance had made it the winner of its Air Combat Fighter (ACF) competition. “ - GlobalSecurity.org)

The F-18? 34 years old (”The resulting redesign was extensive and, when the McDonnell Douglas design was selected as winner in 1976, it was assigned the F-18A designation.” - GlobalSecurity.org)

Yeah, the F-22 is expensive. It outclasses everything else in the sky.

But, do you know what is even more expensive? Losing a war.

Russia, China and India have the manpower/expertise and/or experience to build an Air Force capable of stalemating or defeating the US, IF we don’t keep pushing the envelope.

These crummy little shooting matches in Iraq and Afghanistan (no disrepect intended here) will pale in comparison to an all-out shooting war with China or Russia.

That will never happen, right? 20 more years of liberal leadership will result in the US retiring it’s nuclear arsenal, or diminishing it to the point that conventional war becomes viable.

Some of you people need to wake up. Never fight a war from a position of weakness. EVER.

[Impy]

"President Obama welcomed the Senate vote, saying he rejected the notion that the country has to "waste billions of taxpayers dollars""

ROTFL

[stevie_d_64]

Apparently we have not developed the aerial technology to defeat the F-LP...(Liberal Politician)