Pakistan Buys F-16s - And So Will India...and then they both can drop nukes? Great.
Today India protested the US allowing the sale of F-16s to Pakistan. So what does Washington do?
"After its F-16 offer to Pakistan, Washington tried to sweeten the pill for the Indians, who have fought three wars with their South Asian neighbor, signaling its willingness to sell the planes to India too, along with the more advanced F-18 Hornet."
How can mutual nuclear annhilation be considered a "sweet pill? For who? Lockheed-Martin...
US aviation manufacturer Lockheed Martin has offered to build `exclusive' F-16 fighters for the Indian Air Force, much superior to any existing fighters in service world over.
"If India's requirements are beyond any existing fighters, we are prepared to make upgraded F-16s to India's specifications with complete transfer of technology," Mike Kelly, senior executive of Lockheed Martin said in comments that assume importance after US administration's decision to clear sales of high-technology fighters to India and Pakistan.
So potential nuclear war is justified by saving 5000 U.S. jobs?...
Lockheed Martin Corp, the builder of the planes, had said it needed new orders for the jet before this fall, or it would have to take action to close the production line that employs about 5,000 workers in Fort Worth, Texas.
The decision to sell F-16s "is likely to be as warmly greeted in Fort Worth as it is in Karachi," the Washington Post said.
Lockheed, the nation's largest defence contractor, has produced more than 4,000 of the versatile F-16s since the late 1970s, nearly half of them for customers overseas. The Fort Worth plant delivered its last F-16 to the US Air Force last month, acording to Lockheed Spokesman Tom Jurlowsky, who added that it is still building planes for the governments of Israel, Chile, Poland and the United Arab Emirates.
Good ol' Lockheed Martin - selling bullets to both sides and watching the money roll in...
SOURCE: http://truthmissile.blogspot.com/2005/03/pakistan-buys-f-16s-and-so-will-india.html