Airbus lobbyists have continued to work on and off of Capitol Hillwith tanker opponents.

[Henry J Cobb]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001920964_pattymurray06.html

So if you oppose the Tanker deal you're not only unamerican but also a
stodge of the EU?

-HJC
How do you say "Boeing, Boeing, Gone" in French anyway?

[Thomas J. Paladino Jr.]

>
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001920964_pattymurray06.html
>
> So if you oppose the Tanker deal you're not only unamerican but also a
> stodge of the EU?

Ummm.... no, but if it is found that opponents of the tanker deal do indeed
have some kind of 'arrangement' with Airbus and/or the EU, then they are, at
best, most definately un-American and stooges of the EU.

It is positively shameless the way the EU subsidises & promotes Airbus; then
they have the gall to vicously flog the USA for even the slightest promotion
of domestic industry as 'anti free-trade'. It's is beyond hypocracy and
quite sickening.

Screw 'em. Boeing is a valuable American institution, and all American
military aircraft should be made right here. Period.
(and yes, I am aware that the coast guard uses a couple of European
choppers)

If the airlines want to buy Airbus, let them go right ahead; but the
Eurotrash governments should not penalize airlines for not flying Airbus,
nor should they reward those that do. And they also need to stop pumping
cash into them as well. Could you imagine the ****storm that would erupt if
major airports in the USA began giving preferental gate space and such to
Boeing customers? Or if the US government gave Boeing a few billion to
develop a purely non-military passenger aircraft?

>
> -HJC
> How do you say "Boeing, Boeing, Gone" in French anyway?

French? Is that still around? I suppose so... 'we surrender' has a much
better ring to it when spoken in it's natural language.