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at least 3 times i have received an email from NewsMax asking that we " tell our congressmen to save money... by allowing EADS to build the next AF tanker". Does newsmax have the same people working for them as work for Mc Cain, paid lobbyists for EADS? When the news broke that Mc Cains' team includes those who have lobbied for EADS and this tanker contract, i thought all H*** was going to break loose, since McCain singlehandedly stopped the previous Boeing lease effort. Although that particular lease arrangement was highly suspect, it did not change the facts that...

As U.S. Politicians express their outrage and Boeing Corporation announces they will protest their loss of the $35 Million contract, Europe seems more concerned if this contract will accelerate Airbus’s exodus out of Europe. As announced last week, EADS/Northrop trumped Boeing in Air Force tanker competition and was awarded the lucrative contract over Boeing Corporation. The award sparked a series of fireworks from both s ides of the aisle as lawmakers expressed their outrage and voiced concern of jobs being shipped to Europe for the manufacture of this tanker, based on the highly successful Airbus 330 aircraft. Little or no...