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To: CindyDawg

The Pentagon is increasingly buying planes, weapons and military vehicles from private contractors that outsource the manufacturing to plants in China and elsewhere in Asia, the report said. But when questioned by the commission, defense officials admitted that they do not have the ability to track where the components of military equipment are made.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/15/AR2007111502120.html?hpid=sec-nation

Sweeeet.


40 posted on 11/16/2007 6:58:55 PM PST by cripplecreek (Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
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To: cripplecreek

Scary stuff. People have to be laughing at us.


41 posted on 11/16/2007 7:01:03 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: cripplecreek
"Sweeeet.

And Iran has shipped some of their F14s to China to be refurbished, which China can now easily do, due to the technology transfers that have occurred for the military manufacturing they are doing! Ain't that cool? The Tomcats will be back in the air to attack Israel some day.

122 posted on 11/18/2007 5:48:42 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
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