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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command
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To: calgal who wrote (436)8/16/2004 8:43:45 AM
From: cirrus  Read Replies (1) of 27181
 
Very interesting. Now why in the world is the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld troika doing this?

The Pentagon could have chosen a competing bid that would have mounted our highly sensitive intelligence sensors on a U.S.-made Gulfstream jet -- but went ahead and approved a Brazilian-French Embraer aircraft instead.

The Pentagon's "buy-international” enthusiasm for the ACS project will result in billions of U.S. dollars being spent to create thousands of jobs in other countries. Frank Larkin of the Association of Aerospace Workers says he is concerned "anytime taxpayer dollars are used to create good-paying jobs in countries like Brazil or Chile that are desperately needed here in the U.S."

But even worse than the job and dollar transfer is the likelihood that very sensitive U.S. intelligence technology will be conveyed into foreign hands, as well. When I asked a senior intelligence official about the prospect that such a technology transfer would take place during the construction of the ACS aircraft, he told me it was "inevitable.”
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