For all of you bleeding heart liberals who
whined about the $40 million it cost for Ken
Starr to again prove what a liar, cheat and
thief we have for a president — this story is
for you. Let’s hear you whine about this! The
source is an Air Force Officer, now retired who
forwarded the Air Force Times article to the
national media. Did any of you read this in the
media or see it on the news? I thought not!
Clinton spent more money in one week than Starr
spent in three years.
Today I received 27 March Air Force Times and
was moved to send heads-up to some of the press
re: Clinton's travel costs. Doubt if press will
respond, but with your e-mail list, you may want
to distribute to our Air Force friends who may
not read AF Times.
The 27 March Air Force Times piece should be of
interest. The article details the more than $50
Million cost of the Clinton India/Pakistan trip.
Nowhere else in the press have we seen reported
the fact that, in addition to AIR FORCE ONE and
five other Andrews' aircraft, the outbound trip
is using 14 C-17s from Charleston, 12 C-5s,
three C-141s, two C-130s. Also, seven KC-10s and
39 KC-135s are providing air-refueling support.
The return trip requires an additional 10 C-5s
and another three KC-135s. (The 22 C-5s, thus
occupied, represent one third of the Air Force's
entire operational C-5 fleet) A point of
interest to the civilian public might be that
each aging C-5 is capable of carrying
internally, six Greyhound busses. (That would be
enough airlift for 132 Greyhound busses in C-5s
alone!) Some trip! In addition to the dollar
costs, the huge number of aircraft tied up with
this operation has seriously degraded the
ability of the Air Force to support operational
airlift and air-refueling requirements round the
world. Must be increasing the workload across
the whole spectrum as well. In the face of
continuing very careful military budgeting, will
the public pay any attention to the comparison
of costs of these trips to the unfunded needs of
the military?
