Posted on 09/09/2009 9:54:49 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's demands to kill off a super-expensive, ultramodern fighter and the way-over-budget, behind-schedule presidential helicopter drew a sympathetic hearing from a Senate panel Wednesday.
The F-22 is a next-generation fighter aimed at maintaining U.S. dominance in air combat, but is poorly suited for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The VH-71 is the high-security replacement for the aging fleet of presidential helicopters.
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Ping.
Because Lord knows, we’ll never fight another war anywhere in the world other than Iraq and Afghanistan.
Dude! I just read Andrew’s first sentence of that story, and I am SOO stoked! Is he, like, in middle school??
We have so much to fix when we get rid of this bunch.
Blowin' stuff up ROCKS HARD, ya know?
Having seen it firsthand while in the Air Force, I, too, hate the waste in military spending. Where that waste is identified, it must be eliminated and those who may be lining their own pockets prosecuted to the full limit of the law for the simple reason that those wasted/stolen funds can and do directly cost American lives on the battlefield.
Having said that, we must be mindful of Mr. Jefferson’s warning that “Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for others.”
Someone should engrave that on a plaque and post it on the wall in the Oval office.
Having obama in the White House is like having Keith Moon in a hotel room. -destroy, destroy, DESTROY!!!
BTTT
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