To: Godzilla
On Tuesday, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., launched a withering but probably futile assault on the decision by the Senate Appropriations Committee, led by Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, to add 10 unrequested C-17s to the U.S. fleet of the planes, raising its size to 223. McCain and the Pentagon say the Air Force already has plenty.
To: MARTIAL MONK
Which Democrat’s pork project is this?
7 posted on
09/29/2009 4:07:54 PM PDT by
counterpunch
(In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
To: MARTIAL MONK
McCain and the Pentagon say the Air Force already has plenty. Ah! But, the fleet is as old as McNuts.
9 posted on
09/29/2009 4:08:47 PM PDT by
Road Warrior ‘04
( I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! The "other" Jim Thompson)
To: MARTIAL MONK; Nachum
>>>to add 10 unrequested C-17s to the U.S. fleet of the planes
As a general proposition I’d say you can’t have too much Airlift capacity but if the Air Force didn’t request them, I don’t think there is a legitimate basis to go off on McCain for supporting the Pentagon’s reasoning. More FR complaints are that senators DON’T back the Pentagon.
22 posted on
09/29/2009 5:11:53 PM PDT by
tlb
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