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Obama Overrides Congress to Buy $690 Million Worth of Russian Choppers for Afghan Air Force | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 5359980  United States04/10/2013 12:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 36542417 United States04/10/2013 12:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Great, give more money to a elitist corrupt state. WE need to support the Russian People, NOT the fucking oligarchs.... There's a huge power vacuum still and everyone is trying to stick their hands in the cookie jar. Giving their corrupt government and defense industry is only further hurting the good people of Russia... |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 36691169 United States04/10/2013 12:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | obama is not a king dammit, he cannot just go around doing whatever the hell he wants. seriously, thank you to all the fucking retards out there that voted for him. why do i even bother, it's like talking to a wall made of morons that are hearing impaired. |
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| Meow... User ID: 3650237 United States04/10/2013 12:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | obama is not a king dammit, he cannot just go around doing whatever the hell he wants. seriously, thank you to all the fucking retards out there that voted for him. why do i even bother, it's like talking to a wall made of morons that are hearing impaired. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 36691169 ^^^^THIS^^^^ in freaking spades!!! Bypass Congressional ban,my ass. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 270625 United States04/10/2013 12:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Great, give more money to a elitist corrupt state. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 36542417 WE need to support the Russian People, NOT the fucking oligarchs.... There's a huge power vacuum still and everyone is trying to stick their hands in the cookie jar. Giving their corrupt government and defense industry is only further hurting the good people of Russia... I saw this the other day and my first thought was they are for over here.  |
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| THX 1138 User ID: 1216014 United States04/10/2013 12:35 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Besides the ones they bought back in '10? "The U.S. government is snapping up Russian-made helicopters to form the core of Afghanistan's fledgling air force, a strategy that is drawing flak from members of Congress who want to force the Afghans to fly American choppers instead. " [link to www.washingtonpost.com] Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy. Blessings of the state, blessings of the masses. - OMM |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 11159795 United States04/10/2013 12:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| THX 1138 User ID: 1216014 United States04/10/2013 12:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Unfortunately as always happens, when such laws are passed, Congress always gives the Regime an escape hatch. The law stated that Obama could buy from Rosoboronexport if the Secretary of Defense certified it was in the interest of National Security. And of course, the Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, a man committed to destroying the US military immediately signed off on that certification." [link to www.teapartynation.com] Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy. Blessings of the state, blessings of the masses. - OMM |
| THX 1138 User ID: 1216014 United States04/10/2013 12:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | t's not easy to find an issue that can leave both Connecticut Democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro and Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn equally outraged. But the Pentagon paying $17 million apiece for a fleet of Russian helicopters certainly does the trick. The Defense Department wants to spend taxpayers' money to buy 30 more Russian-made Mi-17 helicopters to give to the Afghan army, through what is effectively a no-bid contract that blocks competing bids from such American helicopter manufacturers as Sikorsky, Bell and Boeing." [link to www.stamfordadvocate.com] Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy. Blessings of the state, blessings of the masses. - OMM |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 37792669  Portugal04/10/2013 12:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 37407813  United Kingdom04/10/2013 01:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | quid pro quo you want Russia to play nice while you do the shit your bosses want doin you gotta pay, look at the deals and territories the US has given Russia in the last 3 years, you're clearly paying them off |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 37604455 United States04/10/2013 01:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | if all america has are hammers that cost $100 and DoD needs hammers and can get them from russia for $4, as commander in chief he has the authority to do what is necessary for the nations defense Quoting: Anonymous Coward 22327067 That's dangerous logical talk.  According to wikipedia our own military only pays about $21 million for a blackhawk. It seems silly to cut our own precious military industrial complex out of hundreds of millions of dollars over a measley $4 million savings per aircraft. Money that would actually continue to circulated in our country and keep Americans working. Better yet, get smart and give them some well used birds and spend the money buying new ones for our own troops. |
| Spectre One Niner User ID: 22461430 United States04/10/2013 01:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A third of our Air Force is grounded because of the sequester, yet we have money to make sure the Afghans are in the air compliments of the Russians???? Here's a prediction - the Afghans hate to perform maintenance, and that fleet will be scrap within 12 months. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 37792669 Portugal04/10/2013 01:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | if all america has are hammers that cost $100 and DoD needs hammers and can get them from russia for $4, as commander in chief he has the authority to do what is necessary for the nations defense Quoting: Anonymous Coward 22327067 That's dangerous logical talk. Yup! But bean counters' mentality cannot see much further than that... |
| judahbenhuer User ID: 35795812 United States04/10/2013 01:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The current administration has a list of top priorities. Unfortunately, funding our military did not make that list. “My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave.” -Stonewall Jackson "The Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to a person who is not." - Charles Spurgeon “I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe . . . Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.” “If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.” -Daniel Webster |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 37501531 United States04/10/2013 01:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Something stinks in Denmark.Apparently America has too many jobs so Obama will be spending taxpayer money to support Russia’s defense industry on behalf of Afghanistan. And he’s doing so over the bipartisan objections of Congress from both the right and left and a ban on buying them written into the NDAA. Quoting: peer pressure proof The US Department of Defense said Thursday it plans to sidestep a Congressional ban to purchase 30 helicopters from Russian state-owned defense firm Rosoboronexport, despite objections from US lawmakerswho allege that the firm has equipped the Syrian government to commit brutal crimes against civilians. [link to nesaranews.blogspot.com] Besides the ones they bought back in '10? Quoting: THX 1138 "The U.S. government is snapping up Russian-made helicopters to form the core of Afghanistan's fledgling air force, a strategy that is drawing flak from members of Congress who want to force the Afghans to fly American choppers instead. " [link to www.washingtonpost.com] "When Congress passed the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, it had an interesting provision. Congress included, as a part of that law a prohibition on the United States buying helicopters from Rosoboronexport, the Russian manufacturer of the Mi-17 helicopter. Quoting: THX 1138 Unfortunately as always happens, when such laws are passed, Congress always gives the Regime an escape hatch. The law stated that Obama could buy from Rosoboronexport if the Secretary of Defense certified it was in the interest of National Security. And of course, the Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, a man committed to destroying the US military immediately signed off on that certification." [link to www.teapartynation.com] Sequester? What Sequester, I don't know what your talking about *blows a billion on foreign choppers*...   |
| R&y User ID: 8224477 United States04/10/2013 01:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Obama sends thousands of American jobs to Russia who may return the favor by selling us built to fail helicopters. And congress may have to return millions of dollars in campaign contributions because they failed to deliver to the right corporations. |
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