[autumnraine]

Why are we paying these people? They are obviously useless and we have lost a branch. Let me guess, someone will say something about it. And that will be about it.

[ronnie raygun]

I want to buy a gun from my enemy in hopes that it will work in the event that I may have to use it against him. Mental illness, deliberate treasonous bastards or both

[driftdiver]

Geez

And some say this guy was the better of the two options we had last election.

[Hardraade]

Congress means nothing. Good to have that confirmed.

[kenmcg]

And they wonder why there are so few jobs in the USA? The USA buying Russian helicopters? Insanity run amok. That's what happens when the RATS are in power, supported by spineless/gutless Pubbie political hacks.

[A.A. Cunningham]

[Ann Archy]

Isn't "BYPASSING a CONGRESSIONAL BAN" ILLEGAL????

If any of you doubt it...we a BANANA REPUBLIC.

[Venturer]

My take on this is we shouldn’t buy the Russian helicopters because they are supplying weapons to Assad, while we are supplying weapons to the Rebels.

If the Russian helicopters will get our men out of Afghanistan any faster buy them.

Of course the argument that the Congress mans nothing is a legitimate argument. The Congress today is made up of thieves and suck butts.They are there merely for show and to take their share of the pork money that keeps them there.

[Coldwater Creek]

“WE THE PEOPLE” no longer means jack squat!

[elpadre]

prosecute whoever willingly violates the law prohibiting such purchase

[usmcobra]

Sheesh don’t any of these idiots know that the lifespan of Russian helicopters is measured in hundreds of flight hours not thousands

[Kakaze]

Six Hundred Ninety Million Dollars for 30 helicopters to afghanistan.......

If this government, and I use that term loosely, is just going to piss money down a rat hole, why can't it be my rat hole?

[9YearLurker]

Are we really that stupid—or is it worse than mere stupidity?

[Josh Painter]

This must be just one example of that “flexibility” Obama told the Russians he would have after the election.

[PAR35]

Should we hold it against the Russians because they are supplying the good guys in Syria? Just because Obama and Moran (or is it Moron) are backing the anti-American muslim terrorists in Syria doesn’t make those who are a bit more sane wrong.

[Political Junkie Too]

For those who are keeping score, he has ignored the first and third articles, is working on bypassing the fourth article, the first, second, fourth, fifth, ninth and tenth amendments, and is heading for the twenty-second.

-PJ

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Actually, in this case it makes sense. Almost all the military gear the Afghan army has is Russian made. US equipment is just not compatible with it. Russian stuff is also far easier to maintain. For example, the AK-47 has only three field-serviceable parts. Such simplicity is a philosophy with them.

Plus a great secret of Russian aircraft is that it is much simpler to operate. The old joke was that the Russian spaceship that took their Cosmonauts to the Moon only had three buttons. “Start”, “Stop”, and “Self-Destruct”.

[MasterGunner01]

We bought 30 Russian helos to replace the VH-3D and VH-60D presidential and executive birds.

Reasons:
1. Obama feels more comfortable in communist equipment;
2. he stiffs Sikorsky, and
3. the Russian helos come with English speaking, Russian crews that cost less than U.S. military crews.

It's because of “sequestration” don't you know, you stupid Yankees.