> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:52:46 -0500, Ian MacLure svpal.org> wrote:
>

>>CarlSwanson nospam.frontiernet.net> wrote in
>>news:4vh4145pm6b7lj2rn55cdj5bapi5lqkuvh@4ax.com:
>>

>>> ...I did some googling. No certainty hits.
>>>
>>> So.. is the Pentagon going to go ahead and buy those planes from the
>>> Northrup/Airbus consortium? Who's the lead man for Northrup connected

>>
>> Yup. The Northrop consortium had the best bid.
>> The GAO will say so in June and Boeing will have to lump
>> it. Mind you some of their bought and paid for politicians
>> may try to derail the whole program but thats life. Should that
>> happen Boeing may expect big time pushback from their customer.
>>

>>> to the military-industrial complex that does not hesitate to screw USA
>>> labor? Why do you vote Republican and promote the rape and pillage of

>>
>> Uncle Sugar, the CEO.
>>

>>> the USA treasury and job market, under the guise of god, gays, and
>>> guns? Pfui. Republicans have no social redeeming value.
>>>
>>> http://michellemalkin.com/2008/02/29/the-pentagon-picks-airbus-over-boein
>>> g-northwest-congressional-delegation-in-an-uproar/

>>
>> Boeing has their pocket polticians just like Microsloth.
>>
>> IBM

> you apparently see the process as clean.
>
> New testimony says the specs were changed in the middle because it
> caused only Boeing to bid. Ok...does that mean the original spec was
> designed to be exclusive? Can't tell.
>
> But the worst of the issues I heard was that the Airbus plane is
> actually too big to bedded down in many locations both domestic and
> foreign.
>
> I posted here before that the AirForce may be the most corrupt of the
> military branches and this fiasco goes along with that premise. But
> the Army, Navy are too so steeped in bid rigging and falsified
> inspections and bribes maybe I should not single out the Air Force.
>
> Then again, I hope Michael Hayden is not crazy. "Blinkie" looks like
> he stepped out of a Pink Panther casting call. And his inferred
> accommodation of torture ..if true...means he too is not it to serve.
> I wonder who his benefactor and mentor is? He got into the NSA during
> Bill Clinton's term and jsut keeps going.