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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.
5 posted on 09/29/2009 4:05:55 PM PDT by MARTIAL MONK
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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.)
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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)
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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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