What need to widen our focus, because we nearly missed this

[Savannah Progressive]

Bushco and the money grubbing Repugniks are now planning on selling the brand new Raptors to "allies".

Since we know that the UAE despite the obvious and well known links to bin Laden, and the Terrorists are one of our "Allies".

http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,88282,00.html

Air Force Plans to Sell F-22As to Allies
InsideDefense.com NewsStand | John T. Bennett | February 18, 2006
Momentum is building within the Air Force to sell the service's prized F-22A Raptor -- which is loaded with super-secret systems -- to trusted U.S. allies,

Anyone doubt who some of our "allies" will be?

[babylonsister]

1. Japan?

If you're insinuating UAE, I have no idea what their country's defense consists of. :shrug:

[Savannah Progressive]

3. Well we sold the UAE 80 F-16 Fighters in 2000

So what makes us think that Bush Co wouldn't push through a sale of the F-22A to them?

http://www.clw.org/archive/cat/oped3-29-00.html

Baltimore Sun, Op-Ed.
March 29, 2000

While most analysts and pundits are elated with the money and jobs the UAE's purchase of 80 F-16 Falcon fighter jets will create, few have delved into the potential security pitfalls of this massive $8 billion deal. The technology included in this deal is more advanced than anything the U.S. currently has in its arsenal. Technology of this capability will have long-lasting effects on the security relationships in the Middle East, not all of which will be positive.

The UAE is paying a large portion of the research and development costs for the custom ordered radar and integrated avionics systems on these F-16s. Those systems, when finally built by Northrup-Grumman, will supercede anything U.S. military planes will have at that point. Also first rate is Northrup's new electronic warfare system, which the U.S. Air Force does not have, nor does it intend to incorporate into its planes in the future.

Additionally, the UAE's F-16s will have longer range and greater payload than any other F-16s in existence. Some of the missiles the Falcons will be armed with have never before been introduced into the Middle East, breaking official U.S. policy.

[zbdent]

2. Who is giving a ton of money to the "Katrina Relief" fund?

[Savannah Progressive]

4. I understand Osama built Orphanages too

Yet, don't we consider him a Terrorist? Are we going to create a scale system? If a Terrorist helps an old woman across the street, does that cancel out bombing innocent women and children elsewhere?

I understand that Hitler didn't smoke, so what, he was Hitler. He launched a world war, and slaughtered millions of innocents.

The UAE has helped the terrorists in the past, and we have no idea what they will do in the future. Perhaps having control of our ports will put just one person in a position to do serious harm to us, or perhaps nothing will happen. That game has a name, it's Russian Roulette. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=russian%20roulette

Russian roulette
n.
A stunt in which one spins the cylinder of a revolver loaded with only one bullet, aims the muzzle at one's head, and pulls the trigger.
An act of reckless bravado.


I believe the last definition is the one that fits this sale best. An act of reckless bravado.