So if Boeing would have won this contract could Airbus have made this much of a stink about losing?  Boeing has in the past done very unethical things to get contracts.  The first time that congress allow companies to bid on this two people went to jail over how they were doing under the table deals.  One of Boeing executives and an Airforce officer to be exact.

Look’s like we are in for a fight on this one!  Maybe Boeing will open a can of worms it shouldn’t......

Sounds like Union Talk and sore loosers.  American jobs will be created just not in their states.  As far as the security, we have terrorist cells in this country now leaking more information to other countries than this would provide.  I applaude Alabama government!!  They did not get lazy.

er, that would be Loren Thompson, a defense analyst with the Lexington Institute.

Sounds like he is mad that he might not get any re-election money from Boeing next time.  That is what all the people complaining sound like.  I would like to know how much Boeing has comtributed to these folks!  Everything I have read from critics said that Boeing’s only hope was political other than that Northrop has them beaten on every other aspect of this deal.

Hey Senator Brokeback...should our military have to learn Italian for the other contract between Boeing and Italy??  Fair’s fair!  What a tool!

I figured it out. It’s a huge scam. About the time foreign countries come calling for payment, French, China, everybody else, the US will be totally bankrupt. That is why nobody seems to care that the national debt doubled just during the last few years. I don’t have a second hand on my watch, but I bet it will add up to over $50,000/person by the end of the year. And you were worried about identity theft. We have been being robbed blind by the government.

I think everyone should read this article from the Seattle Times about the tanker decision.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2004258210_tanker04.html

Thompson, who was considered by EADS to favor Boeing in the competition, added this damning endnote to his memo:

“The reviewers concluded that if they funded the Northrop Grumman proposal they could have 49 superior tankers operating by 2013, whereas if they funded the Boeing proposal, they would have only 19 considerably less capable planes in that year.”

I wonder what these Senators think about the statement about from Fred Thompson about the deal