On Oct 29, 6:09 pm, "Gatt" wrote:
"Matt Barrow" wrote in message

news
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.

-c

I think it's pretty likely they deactivated it because they had a
replacement that was even better. They don't generally give up
capabilities unless they can be replaced by something just as good or
better. Why stick with 60s technology when you can bring it up 20
years and take advantage of newer technology? They just haven't
decided to publicize it yet.