without going back to the original, doesn't he ascribe it all to the "military-industrial complex" ? Sure that's a vague word beloved by conspiracy theorists, but here's a thought for you. In the course of finding those links I had a look at the Wikipedia article, which says that the *only* people still flying the F15 are the Iranian, who bough them from us.
So it seems to me that someone somewhere was careless, hmm? Supposedly these parts were going to be scrapped precisely because (whatever our opinion of this) relations with Iran are currently not good. If you think that it refutes that this was done deliberately by Bush himself, yeah probably, unless there's another Ollie North out there. Which there could be, actually... On Dec 9, 2007 8:51 AM, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, a source that he does not mention because it gives the article a > totally different spin. Reading the Washington Post article shows clearly > that this is a criminal matter with lack of review on the governments part. > No plot, no conspiracy, no MIC (and no Janes link yet). > > Yes, we've sold to Iraq in the past but this is not us selling to Iran now. > Not directly and not knowingly. There wasn't an Iranian stepping up saying > "I'm from Iran, sell me the parts". There wasn't a government official or > anyone from the MIC saying "I'm selling these parts to our enemy". > > On Dec 9, 2007 8:46 AM, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > well not to be technical but it does have sources. Jane's has a pretty > > good reputation. II haven't looked into it beyond that, and don't have > > time right now. But would it surprise me, no. We've sold Iran weapons > > in the past. > > > > > > -- > Michael Dinowitz (http://www.linkedin.com/in/mdinowitz) > President: House of Fusion (http://www.houseoffusion.com) > Publisher: Fusion Authority (http://www.fusionauthority.com) > Adobe Community Expert / Advanced Certified ColdFusion Professional > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:248008 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
