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Group: mn.politics · Group Profile
Author: Ian MacLureIan MacLure Date: May 7, 2008 20:11
CarlSwanson nospam.frontiernet.net> wrote in
news:8cn3249k39hqpcvbv4hhqik4ou4ks1g89f@4ax.com:
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> 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.
NG may have told the Air Dorce they wouldn't be able to bid the
original spec. Bids on programs like this aren't cheap and NG
wouldn't throw their money at a program they plainly had no
chance of winning.
> 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.
And it can't operate form makeshift fields on the FEBA either
but guess what the 767 can't either.
The A330 can operate from just about anywhere the 767 can,
Might be a tad tighter on ramp space but then again you wouldn't
need as many of the A330 for a given mission.
> 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.
It was a given this would be protested. Just about any large
program these days is. The AF knew this going in and job 1 for
their proposal team was to make sure the decision when it was
made was iron clad. Boeing has no hope on the merits. The politics
is sonething else.
> 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.
There were a lot of holdovers from the Klintoon era. Given what
has transpired in the last 7 years they should all have been
fired on day 1 of Bush's first term.
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