Gates Downs the F-22

[John Q. Citizen]

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1912084,00.html?iid=tsmodule

Despite a last-minute blitz by supporters of the F-22 fighter to keep building more of the $350 million planes, the Senate voted 58 to 40 on Tuesday to halt its production. The action, backed by a veto threat from President Obama, is a major victory for Defense Secretary Robert Gates' effort to retool the Pentagon for the kind of wars now being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq. Obama praised Gates for his "outspoken leadership" in slaying the F-22 in the face of strong resistance from its backers. "At a time when we're fighting two wars and facing a serious deficit," he said in the Rose Garden, "this would have been an inexcusable waste of money."

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[Union Yes]

1. We moved about 1% towards my hope of 75% military reduction.

It's a start.

[MidwestTransplant]

2. And he get's himself arrested in his own house. Quite a week for Gates

;)

[John Q. Citizen]

3. Not only that, but I read he's

upset about the lack of enough HB-1 visas. :)

[Ilsa]

4. Silly Transplant! ;-) nt