[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Marketwatch :

Air Force reopens $35 billion tanker contract

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Speaking before reporters, Gates said he wanted the contract redone by December.

[We Dare Defend Our Rights]

Would be simpler just to give the contract to Boeing and let them choose a price to bill the Government. Boeing first tried bribery, then used their bought & paid for lackeys in Congress to stay in the running, nothing will stop them.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Why don’t we just sell the Air Force to Boeing, instead? We can use the money to bail out GM. ;)

[Andy from Chapel Hill]

Gates for VP!

[TommyDale]

John McCain must be going nuts right now. He wanted Airbus/Northrop Grumman to get the contract. He was upset that Boeing even protested. The deal had been made.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Boeing will win this.Heads rolled at the top of the Airforce over this.

[SonOfDakota]

You know the hell of this is that one of these days a wing is going to fall off an old ‘58 model KC-135 inflight and about a hundred folks will perish with it.
Where’s the finger going to point then?

[rlmorel]

I do not want my tax dollars going to EADS.

This is not protectionism, this is recognition of the fact that the ability to produce military aircraft is a strategic asset.

I don’t care if we buy canteens from the Philippines, web belts from Bangladesh, helmets from Germany or machine guns from Belgium. If we have to reconstitute those industries in a pinch, we can do it.

We cannot reconstitute advanced aircraft production easily, the same way we cannot reconstitute shipbuilding capability easily if it atrophies further than it already has.

I don’t care if the Germans can build better ships or the Swedes can build better planes. We should keep the parent companies in this country to maintain the capability.

Just my opinion.

[Admin Moderator]

Knock off the personal attacks. All of you. Don’t make me come back here. This thread will look like it suffered an airstrike.