Oh WTF is this adminstration thinking.....Maybe the Islamic regime can use them to strafe the U.S. embassy
Right Time to Give Egypt More F-16s?
Right Time to Give Egypt More F-16s?
- The US is sending more than 20 F-16 fighter jets to Egypt as part of a $1 billion foreign aid package, but critics question plan given current unrest in the country.
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Besides it makes more sense to raise taxes on the top2% of Americans.....That will pay for these jets to go to Egypt. Oooops!
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U.S. gift of F-16 fighters headed to Egypt, despite Morsi's harsh rhetoric
By Maxim Lott
Published January 22, 2013
FoxNews.com
Four F-16 fighter jets left the U.S. this morning, bound for Egypt as part of a foreign aid package critics say should have been scrapped when the nation elected a president who has called President Obama a liar and urged that hatred of Jews be instilled in children.
A source who works on the Naval Air Force Base in Dallas confirmed the departure of the state-of-the-art fighter planes to FoxNews.com. Sixteen F-16s and 200 Abrams tanks are to be given to the Egyptian government before the end of the year under a $216 million foreign aid deal signed in 2010 with then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a longtime U.S. ally..
Critics, including several in Congress, say it doesn't make sense to follow through with the package, given that new Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, elected last summer, has given decidedly mixed signals about relations with the U.S. While he has toned down his rhetoric since his election, in 2010 - the same year the aid package was struck - Morsi attacked Obama for supporting Israel.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/22/gift-us-f-16-fighter-jets-en-route-to-egypt-amid-criticism/#ixzz2IirqaHZg
By Maxim Lott
Published January 22, 2013
FoxNews.com
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The planes were part of a 2010 foreign aid package, that critics say should have been canceled. (Courtesy: Carl Richards) -
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The planes, made by Lockheed-Martin, are already marked with the Egyptian flag. (Courtesy: Carl Richards)
Four F-16 fighter jets left the U.S. this morning, bound for Egypt as part of a foreign aid package critics say should have been scrapped when the nation elected a president who has called President Obama a liar and urged that hatred of Jews be instilled in children.
A source who works on the Naval Air Force Base in Dallas confirmed the departure of the state-of-the-art fighter planes to FoxNews.com. Sixteen F-16s and 200 Abrams tanks are to be given to the Egyptian government before the end of the year under a $216 million foreign aid deal signed in 2010 with then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a longtime U.S. ally..
Critics, including several in Congress, say it doesn't make sense to follow through with the package, given that new Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, elected last summer, has given decidedly mixed signals about relations with the U.S. While he has toned down his rhetoric since his election, in 2010 - the same year the aid package was struck - Morsi attacked Obama for supporting Israel.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/22/gift-us-f-16-fighter-jets-en-route-to-egypt-amid-criticism/#ixzz2IirqaHZg
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Too bad Obama trashed the F-22 program.The F-16's can be life fire targets for our F-22's and F-35's like the phased out F-4 Phantoms were for the F-14's and F-15's............
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