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Obama To Spend $700 Million In US Tax Dollars For Russian Helicopters For Afghan Air Force
Freedom Outpost ^ | May 30, 2013 | Tim Brown

Posted on 05/30/2013 10:56:47 AM PDT by EXCH54FE

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To: Irenic

Bruno from Chicago has warned the congress and the courts not to interfere with the obozo hussein’s administration’s activities


41 posted on 05/30/2013 11:57:14 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: EXCH54FE

The Afghans are familiar with Russian hardware. We’d never be able to train them to maintain modern western stuff. IIRC the Muj tended to fly the Russian stuff ‘til the rotors flew off.
I think we equipped them with new AKs for the same reason.


42 posted on 05/30/2013 12:01:22 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

and we borrow it from the Communist Chinese


43 posted on 05/30/2013 12:02:21 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (()
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To: DoughtyOne

” It would seem our businesses should get first crack at it.”

Absolutely.


44 posted on 05/30/2013 12:03:07 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: EXCH54FE

Perhaps some American manufacturers of helicopters will object to this. Then again, maybe they won’t - wanting to protect their government contracts and their companies from IRS probes.


45 posted on 05/30/2013 12:05:57 PM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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To: faithhopecharity

The quit trying to sell T bonds. Now the Federal Reserve just prints a bunch of money and “buys” them.


46 posted on 05/30/2013 12:06:05 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

yeah, ain’t it neat?

(we’re thinking of printing our own money here, too.... what a terriffic idea!)


47 posted on 05/30/2013 12:07:18 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (()
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To: EXCH54FE
I guess that when the Big Zero talked to the Russians in South Korea this might be some of what he had in mind.

It is very clear that he doesn't care about US industry or US jobs.

“...
President Barack Obama was caught on camera on Monday assuring outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he will have “more flexibility” to deal with contentious issues like missile defense after the U.S. presidential election.

Obama, during talks in Seoul, urged Moscow to give him “space” until after the November ballot, and Medvedev said he would relay the message to incoming Russian president Vladimir Putin...”

48 posted on 05/30/2013 12:13:51 PM PDT by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: faithhopecharity

No, no, no! Only the Federal Reserve is allowed to print money and then spend it.


49 posted on 05/30/2013 12:42:35 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Glad we agree on this.


50 posted on 05/30/2013 12:48:20 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Funny thing happened on the way to the Constitution burning, Lefties rights were violated...)
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To: EXCH54FE

Is this “Helicoptergate?”


51 posted on 05/30/2013 1:28:00 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

LINK:

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52 posted on 05/30/2013 2:00:10 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (()
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To: Wuli
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.

Karzai could pay the Russians with the raw opium he grows. Let the Russians experience a generation lost to drug use.

Regards,
GtG

53 posted on 05/30/2013 2:20:04 PM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: EXCH54FE

This is the Onion right?


54 posted on 05/31/2013 4:15:34 AM PDT by swampthang77
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To: EXCH54FE

“Russia has viewed the pro-democracy uprisings that have taken place across North Africa and the Middle East in the past 18 months as antithetical to its strategic interests. Russia was the main provider of arms to the Qaddafi regime, with sales accounting for 12 per cent of Russia’s arms exports in 2010, at a value of $10 billion.”
http://www.libyaherald.com/2012/06/06/ukrainian-russian-belarusian-governments-to-appeal-mercenary-convictions/

http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/06/02/government-denies-seeking-arms-from-russia/

Is our government trying to make up for Russia’s revenue loss?


55 posted on 06/02/2013 11:21:17 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Irenic
I think Obama still controls money allocated to (Fill in Blank) from their
uncontrolled two year reign. Sequester was a political joke on America from both sides.
56 posted on 06/02/2013 11:34:48 PM PDT by MaxMax
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To: MaxMax

Ya know, my mother swears up and down the politicians have a good wad of that stimulus money stashed in banks somewhere in the world. I don’t know. I don’t know what to think any longer. Well...I do know that what little trust I had in our government is COMPLETELY gone. I think we have one of the most corrupt governments in the world today.


57 posted on 06/02/2013 11:49:27 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Irenic
There's still over 1-Trillion dollars unaccounted for.
Of course 700-million sounds bigger to most people.

The Communists cannot take over until Americans are dumbed down, and
our Schools are doing a great job on the next generation. And those Illegals
will be meant to replace us after the great cleansing during the
pretended civil war. Someone must serve the Gov Masters.

58 posted on 06/03/2013 12:14:32 AM PDT by MaxMax
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To: EXCH54FE

first of all, Afghanistan is not our enemy. Our enemy is a group of terrorists within Afghanistan called the Taliban which is also at war with the AFghan gov’t and military. The gov’t of Afghanistan is our ally in the fight against the Taliban and remnants of Al quaida and now ISIS. know at least the fundamental/ basic facts that any middle school student knows before you go spreading your fear and misinformation.


59 posted on 07/24/2015 9:10:31 PM PDT by jonhunter69 (Afghanistan is not our enemy!)
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