Posted on 05/30/2013 10:56:47 AM PDT by EXCH54FE
The Obama Department of Defense is going to spend nearly $700 million to buy Russian Mi-17 helicopters for the Afghan Air Force.
That’s right, $700 million of U.S. taxpayer money is going to fund our enemy’s air force. However, not only could this be considered treasonous, but even by the federal government’s 2013 National Defense Authorization Act they are in violation of their own legislation.
According to Riz Novosti:
WASHINGTON, April 4 (By Maria Young for RIA Novosti) – The US Department of Defense said Thursday it plans to sidestep a Congressional ban to purchase 30 helicopters from Russian state-owned defense firm Rosoboronexport, despite objections from US lawmakers who allege that the firm has equipped the Syrian government to commit brutal crimes against civilians.
“The Department of Defense (DOD) has notified Congress of its intent to contract with Rosoboronexport for 30 additional Mi-17 rotary-wing aircraft to support the Afghanistan National Security Forces (ANSF) Special Mission Wing,” Pentagon spokesman James Gregory told RIA Novosti in emailed comments.
The 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, approved by Congress last year, includes an amendment that prohibits financial contracts between the United States and Rosoboronexport, except when the Secretary of Defense determines that such arrangements are in the interest of national security.
“Given current timelines, the department has determined that Rosoboronexport is the only viable means of meeting ANSF requirements” for the helicopters, Gregory said.
Obviously the question should be, why are we not spending money on American made helicopters? Second, why are we spending any money on helicopters for enemies? Third, why are we giving money to Russia for these helicopters?
Well the Obama administration doesn’t want the U.S. economy to actually improve, that’s why they aren’t spending here.
Apparently, it’s also against the law.
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Thank heaven the sequester kicked in. Imagine how that money would have been wasted in the U. S. if it hadn’t.
I thought CONGRESS held the purse strings?~!!! How does he do this?!! HOW ?!
This asylum is indeed being operated by and for the benefit of the inmates of the White Hut and the Parallelogram.
hey, if the Russians want to sell helicopters to the Afghan government, I say fine, and let Karzai find some other patron to pay for them.
what does Congress have to say about this??
This guy in the WH never ceases to amaze. He’s got BALLS as big as basketballs.
“Thank heaven the sequester kicked in. Imagine how that money would have been wasted in the U. S. if it hadn’t.”
the sequester had nothing to do with it one way or another, Obama is allowed to pick and chose where sequester will and will not be imposed on what an agency wants to do; if hes’ not spending that $700 million in the U.S., that’s his choice
blaming sequester is a distraction, not the issue
My tax dollars being wasted on Karzai. And to boot, it isn’t even supporting our American manufacturers. Wake up America...Obama HATES YOU!
Not one of them will be safe to fly a month after we leave.
That's mighty flexible of 0'
And they get their money from us.
Just as he destroyed NASA to give Russia the space monopoly they craved for more than a generation, he will give them the Afghanistan they couldn't conquer as the Soviet Union.
The Taliban is going to end up with these choppers, anyway.
In which case, better Migs, perhaps, than Bells or Sikorskis.
25 years ago we were transferring SAMs to the Mujaheddin to shoot down Russian helicopters
I guess Obama is being blackmailed to make payback
I appreciate the point, but I wasn’t really blaming this on the sequester.
The president has decided where he’ll spend the money, and it wasn’t in the U. S.
All this talk about how the sequester was going to hurt us, and yet we still have billions to spend where ever this ass wants to.
When NATO leaves, they will have a Change Of Command with the TallyBand , just a little parting gift
We've trained and equipped a military and police force that will cost several times the entire GDP of the country to maintain. Talk about setting a country up for failure.
The Afghans have successfully been defeating empires for a millennium using antique weapons and guerrilla tactics. Assuming there is a functioning government to deliver the helicopters to they'll be full of holes and/or rotting on the weed infested tarmac in 12 months from delivery.
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