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Old October 29th 07, 10:01 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Paul Tomblin
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In a previous article, Big John said:
destroyed so he would have more tax dollars to waste on the F-111. In
1994 William Jefferson Clinton used line item veto to cancel all
funding for SR-71s. They are now in museums. The pilots said that we


The line item veto was declared unconstitutional soon afterwards, Congress
offered to re-authorized the money, but the Air Force declined because
they wanted to spent the money on Predator and Global Hawk. And let's not
forget that try as you might, you can't blame the first SR-71 retirement
on Clinton.



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