wrote in :

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5422694.html

I always get a kick out of the media sniping about the cost of the rescue
in all of this. The cost of the rescue was Zero because we ALREADY planned
to pay the crew, maintenance, CG budget even if they never rescued Joe. If
they hadn't rescued anyone, they would have burned the fuel and airframe
times doing PRACTICE rescues, anyways, the public never thinks about. The
cost of Joe's rescue, was .0000000000125% of the cost of rescuing ONE Iraqi
from his government torturers. The media doesn't start mentioning that
until well after the 50 billion dollar mark in war expenditures, after the
war is mostly over, because they have to have SOME credibility in the
middle of the DoD propaganda campaign they've been running since 9/11

"It's all HIS fault and HE should pay!"

He did....MANY times over in a lifetime of taxes.

Larry
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Jan 1st 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
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