04-21-2013, 06:15 PM
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dumb libs love censorship
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http://www.armytimes.com/article/201...efense-program
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In a testy exchange on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was forced to defend the Pentagon?s decision to approve $380 million to fund the Medium Extended Air Defense System through the remainder of this fiscal year, even though the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act prohibited funding for the program.
A joint venture between the U.S., Italy and Germany, the MEADS program has developed slowly and has drawn the ire of lawmakers, especially after the Army announced two years ago that once its current obligations to its allies ran out at the end of 2013, it would walk away from the unfinished program while harvesting what technologies it could.
Pressed by Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., during a House Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday, Hagel said, ?I?m not here to defend MEADS,? but ?according to our office of general counsel, I asked for legal advice on this, and they told me that we?re obligated to finish that contract.?
Shuster shot back that ?I respectfully think you need to get some new lawyers,? and that ?it is foolish for us to be spending almost $400 million on a system that nobody is going to procure.?
?Taxpayers shouldn?t have to keep paying for a failed weapons program that our troops will never use,? Ayotte said in an April 10 statement. ?There is near unanimous support in the Senate for cutting funding for the ?missile to nowhere,? and the legislation I?m introducing will better support our troops,? she wrote.
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this is just to illustrate how hard it is for the pentagon to cut 400 million in spending on a missile program they are not even going to purchase.
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