Posted on 05/05/2005 3:29:04 PM PDT by desidude_in_us
Must give full credit to the Bush govt, esp Condi Rice, for ensuring this deal.
I guess that Chirac couldn't push another Airburst product despite all of his begging, pleading, and bullying.
No wonder Boeing's orders are flooding in!
Chirac: "Le Whaa!"
Will Airbus EVER accept its losses and move on?
Boeing has lost several major orders in the last few years but do you see them whine and cry and beg? No. They just keep bettering their products.
Fact: the Boeing 787 is superior to the Airbus A350
Fact: while the 787 will be able to land at most of the world's airports, the A380 will only be able to land at about 50 worldwide---in the next 10 years
A French company loses a deal and it's an international incident. Good reason to avoid these people.
fyi
Who wins in a head to head between a Mirage and an F-16 or F-18?
Are the F's fast enough to catch a retreating Mirage?
Cheese eating surrender monkeys.
Hmmm. Must be part of the vast RW conspiracy, cause the Canadians bought Boeing, too.
http://www.financegates.com/news/business_news/2005-04-27/boeing2704.html
dung.
Check out the Gulf War report cards. We shot down any Iraqi Mirage that came at us.
lets see.. their government essentially is part of airbus - and they are complaining about the u.s. government interfering? Cry me a river.
I am guessing they are trying to make an example object out of idia to other nations.
"France feels that "some factors other than commercial" have influenced the deal."
It's called capitalism. Boeing Good, Airbus Bad.
"Le Cr@p!" LOL
McDonald Douglas used to broker and/or arrange deals
that included stuff as diverse as blueberry harvests, rice,
cotton, shoes, wood, etc. in order to sell planes abroad.
All those guys work for Boeing now.
Girard asserted that the most important advantage of buying fighters from France was reliability. "We value contracts. We never stop supplies in any condition," he said, apparently referring to the US which had imposed halted supplies of several defence items to India after 1998 Pokhran nuclear tests.
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Translation: If you proliferate or act aggressively against civillians or start wars we will continue to supply your military.
Curious... I thought the USA was the 'evil' country.
Seems like just yesterday they were glowing in their ode to the 'Tower of Babel' or was it the 'Titanic'?
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