by Bruce Webb
Would that have been a fair headline for the following story: Richard Shelby Puts Hold On President Obama's Nomineesl? Because the facts are pretty clear, Shelby placed these holds mainly because of concerns over as Politico delicately puts it "Pentagon's bidding process for air-to-air refueling tankers". We can put that a little more starkly. The Pentagon wants to buy a replacement of much of its KC-135 Air Tanker fleet. You can read the background in this Wiki article KC-X but it really comes down to the following question. Are we going to buy these planes from Boeing or from a consortium of AEDS/Lockheed where AEDS is better known to Americans as AirBus? In other words American Boeing 767 or Old Europe Airbus A-330?
rest at http://angrybear.blogspot.com/2010/02/senator-shelby-of-alabama-puts-france.html
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