- This weeks issue, May 13, 2000, of US News and World
report, has a special investigative report on "War Profiteering".
Very interesting read, starts on page 20.
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- It begins with Senator John McCain blasting the Air Force
for adding a $20 billion dollar item to the Defense Appropriations Bill.
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- They want, of all things, 100 new refueling tankers from
Boeing.
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- What angers McCain is that cost is just to lease them
for ten years. After that they go back to Boeing. This is what would happen
if you wanted a ton of tankers but couldn't afford to buy them, or felt
the cost would attract too much attention.
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- My untrusting mind asks, don't we have enough refueling
tankers now? We did the Serbia war, Afghanistan war and I heard of no tanker
shortage.
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- So, inquiring minds want to know: how come you need 100
more tankers? A big war coming? Are the chemplanes wearing out? Or, are
we going to crank up the spraying???
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- Phil Marie Sr.
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