From http://www.insightmag.com/cgi-bin/ViewNews.cfm?Item=170 }}>Begin Air Force Losing Altitude? Bush/Cheney Challenge to Gore/Lieberman on military readiness pops loose documents showing USAF not up to snuff � readiness shockingly down! 9/4/00 - The issue of U.S. military readiness has become a hot political topic since Republican presidential contender George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, the GOP vice presidential running mate, began battling about it in recent speeches. Vice President Al Gore and outgoing commander-in-chief Bill Clinton have denied readiness is at all time lows or that under their watch the overall military readiness has declined. Joe Lieberman, Gore�s running mate, has suggested it�s unpatriotic of Bush and Cheney to raise the issue of military readiness notwithstanding the fact that even those within the military openly talk about the issue with growing frustration. Consider a set of documents obtained by Insight that show Air Force readiness is shockingly down in two major categories: overall combat and combat commands stateside. According to the documents, used recently at the Pentagon in closed-door briefings that include rank-and-file airmen, overall readiness for the Air Force is down 24 percent from 91 percent in January 1996 to 67 percent in June 2000. Equally discouraging for top brass is that, for air combat command stateside, active readiness is down a whopping 42 percent, from 86 percent in January 1996 to a disturbing 44 percent in June 2000. Moreover, according to the documents obtained by Insight, the average age of the total Air Force fleet is about 23.5 years, while for fighters the average age is about 19 years. "These numbers show you we are in trouble," says a high- ranking Air Force officer who reviewed the briefing papers. "This is not new and we don�t want to hide such information from the public but we�re being told to keep our traps shut," the Air Force officer tells Insight. "Congress has known about this for quite some time. The problem is that nobody seems to care." By: Paul M. Rodriguez End<{{ >>>Or, do some candidates bathe extensively in North African waters, drawn from Da Nile? Pal Joey seems to have found that part of the formula for globalisation is parity among military forces. As the U.S. outfought its "allies" of the Kosovariac Combat Unity Force (NEATO, i.e.), the only way for them to save face is bring the Americans down to their level, eh, what? A<>E<>R <<< A<>E<>R Integrity has no need of rules. -Albert Camus (1913-1960) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The libertarian therefore considers one of his prime educational tasks is to spread the demystification and desanctification of the State among its hapless subjects. His task is to demonstrate repeatedly and in depth that not only the emperor but even the "democratic" State has no clothes; that all governments subsist by exploitive rule over the public; and that such rule is the reverse of objective necessity. He strives to show that the existence of taxation and the State necessarily sets up a class division between the exploiting rulers and the exploited ruled. He seeks to show that the task of the court intellectuals who have always supported the State has ever been to weave mystification in order to induce the public to accept State rule and that these intellectuals obtain, in return, a share in the power and pelf extracted by the rulers from their deluded subjects. [[For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, Murray N. Rothbard, Fox & Wilkes, 1973, 1978, p. 25]] <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
