"Gatt" wrote in message
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"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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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.

Why not?

It was first deactivated in the '80s, before the Clinton administration.


"Deactivated" is not the same as "retired".