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To: NormsRevenge
McCain can't be faulted on this one. Boeing got a sweetheart deal at first, at huge cost to taxpayers. USAF wouldn't have even owned those tankers under the previous deal.
17 posted on 06/23/2008 1:25:20 PM PDT by DesScorp
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To: DesScorp
McCain can't be faulted on this one. Boeing got a sweetheart deal at first, at huge cost to taxpayers.

Yes. He can. Why on Earth would you expect any different from this RINO sleaze?

Actually, the taxpayer, rather than being gouged $6 billion as McCain asserted...would have gotten 100 tankers for $18 billion. Now we have to pay $40 billion.

Gee, such a savings. Thanks John McCain! NOT!

USAF wouldn't have even owned those tankers under the previous deal.

Yes, I believe they would have. It was a lease to own deal, as I understood it. And Boeing would have fronted the R&D and deployments! Meanwhile, now the USAF has to string the deployment out while it coughs up $40 billion in the distant future...for the same number of planes...

19 posted on 06/23/2008 2:10:25 PM PDT by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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