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The retired general who asked about gays and lesbians serving in the military at the CNN/YouTube Republican debate on Wednesday is a co-chairman of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s National Military Veterans group.Retired Brig. Gen. Keith H. Kerr was named a co-chair of the group this month, according to a campaign press release.

He was also active in John F. Kerry’s 2004 campaign for president.

Kerr asked candidates “why you think that American men and women in uniform are not professional enough to serve with gays and lesbians.”

Ok first I did not watch the debate; I have said often that I NEVER watch debates because they are pointless.
You can put me on stage and I can play the role of any presidential candidate and answer a question exactly as they would, well maybe not Hillary because she is such a fucken liar politician she always talks out of her ass.

Now as for this “Clinton Plant” I am finally beginning to see the “inevitability” wall starting to crumble with Mrs. Bill and I don’t blame her so much as I do the people who supposedly support her. She is the ultimate control freak but she can’t keep a tight reign on her idiot supporters who do this stupid shit.
The people in her campaign apparently are not as smart as we all once believed. Her campaign is a public relations disaster and if I were running her campaign I would put my foot up some folks asses.

This question was so unnecessary, the military policy on gays like it or not is working.
I’m trying to understand just what point he was trying to make. Now in the next debate Hillary must now address another issue that was not on her radar and do PR damage control because the focus will again be on the “plant” and not the substance of the question.

What is fascinating to me was a few people trolling the net was able to uncover all these plants within an hour or two, but the Clinton News Network with its world wide resources, liberal fact geeks, editors, reporters either didn’t find that out or didn’t think it was relevant. I mean does CNN think that the average citizen is a retarded dolt? They must think that way.

Now that CNN’s credibility has been pissed on again and we now have this new slate of Democratic flunkies and activists asking questions of Republicans, the new Democrat tactic now seems to be “who gives a shit, they were valid questions, so it really doesn’t matter who asked them.” This is what one dude said on a talk show this morning as I was driving to work. Then what is this “undecided voter” bullshit, why hide your identity?

Let’s use some fucken common sense here if we are not suppose to give a shit about who asked the questions then why didn’t the homo general ask about the economy, lead in toys, or global warming, or the mom with her kids ask about gays in the military?
Because it was convenient for the Democrats to have this decorated fraud ask the question, who is saying something is just as important, if not more important than what is actually being said.

Notice all of the deception deceit, fraud, flip flopping on the Democrat side, reason number 4,210,763 I thank God I’m not a Democrat.

Update: New - Muslim questioner was a former CAIR intern.

Update: CNN on the defensive. CNN’s Glenn Beck comments here.

Update: The foliage keeps blooming…a questioner working with Dick Durbin’s staff and a Richardson supporter masquerading as a Paulbot… and a former Jane Harman intern…and the “Blind Black Republican satirist” (a milder species, but still, all in the same family).

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From Hot Air: Video: The disappearing Hillary plant; Update: Does it matter who the questions come from?
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From Sweetness & Light: The Clinton News Network Does It Again

From the blog What Bubba Knows

 Disabled veterans jeered at swimming pool

When Moonbats say “Support the Troops, Bring Them Home Now”, it means the same thing it meant in the 60’s and 70’s:
“Bring them home so that we can ridicule them, spit on them, call them baby-killers and rapists, and treat them like second class citizens for the rest of their lives.”

Found via Hot Air, from the Daily Kos

We won’t wait anymore.

Since Congress, particularly the congressional leadership, refuses to do so, my wife and I are personally defunding the war and occupation of Iraq. We refuse for the foreseeable future to surrender the portion of our taxes that pays for U.S. imperialism and the militarization which backs it up. We’re inventing nothing, merely joining with thousands of other war-tax protesters whose history on the North American continent dates back to 1637 when the Algonquins refused to pay a Dutch tax levied to remodel a fort built in the midst of these Indians to control them on their own land.

Our action may seem pitiful in that it amounts to cutting off money to Iraq for about as long as it takes you to read half this sentence. Moreover, if it wishes, the government can extract even that pittance from us by force. But only if officials are willing to expend more money to collect from us than they will obtain in the process.

We take this action reluctantly, fully aware of the potential consequences. But Congress leaves us no choice.

Read the rest here and try not to laugh!

Found on Moonbattery

As Sweetness & Light points out, it’s ironic that John Kerry would pretend not to understand what Rush Limbaugh meant by “phony soldiers.” After all, Hanoi John has known a few himself. Here he is with Al Hubbard, denouncing American efforts to defend democracy from totalitarianism: As National Review reported back in the day, Al Hubbard was executive director of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He claimed to have been an Air Force captain who had been injured during a two-year stint in Vietnam.

But it came to light he wasn’t really a captain. Then we learned that there was no record of his having served in Vietnam. It seems the only injuries on record were sustained playing basketball and soccer. But it can be confirmed that Hubbard was arrested for throwing cow manure on the steps of the Pentagon.

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Also check out while you are there: San Francisco’s Hostility Toward Military Explained

In light of attempts by Supervisor Chris Daly to nix the Blue Angels’ appearance during Fleet Week, drunken and philandering San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom explains the well-documented hostility of his town to the military: it’s all a lie, cooked up by “the extreme right.”

and Moonbats Attack Columbus Day Parade in Denver

This from the blog: The Influence Peddler, Democrats are going down the wrong road on this issue.

House Democrats are apparently considering a resolution to castigate Rush Limbaugh for having the nerve to allege that there are ‘phony soldiers’ bragging about their exploits in Iraq. As long as they’re at it, perhaps they’ll actually denounce the phony soldiers. Fact is, there are thousands of ‘phony soldiers’ nationwide; the problem is so great that Congress passed legislation to crack down on the epidemic. Jesse MacBeth is just the tip of the iceberg.Publications like the Army Times and Navy Times have written about phony veterans many times.

 A sample:

Justice Department officials in Washington state detailed Porter’s story, along with seven other people accused of — or already convicted of — being military frauds, during a news conference Friday on VA fakers.

“We take it seriously because this money is meant for veterans, not for fakers,” James O’Neill, assistant inspector general for the VA’s office of investigations, told Military Times.

“Every dollar that’s lost to a faker is one more dollar that can’t be spent on a veteran,” said O’Neill, whose office is responsible for rooting out those who defraud VA.

More from the same publication:

It’s not unheard of for Marines to embellish their service after leaving active duty or for civilians who’ve never served to pass themselves off as Marines. It’s happening all over the country this very minute…

Posers, in other words, are getting less ambitious. Among the dozen or so cases that have popped up so far this year — including five recent ones in this week’s issue — some are merely claiming to be a Marine, without all the battlefield exploits and mounds of chest candy. Those who do claim valor among their traits aren’t shooting for the Medal of Honor or service crosses. Fake Silver Star cases seem to be en vogue, as are phony Purple Hearts.

Want more? Here’s a whole website devoted to the problem. Here’s another website with numerous news stories about it.

Read the rest here, I’m scanning the blogsphere for additional posts will post as I find.

Michelle Malkin: Rush Limbaugh, phony soldiers, and the Left’s desperate need for its own “Betray Us” moment

Has Media Matter violated IRS Code?

Americans Continue to Choose Unbiased News

Mark Levin: Mark Levin: Media Matters is a Criminal Enterprise

More silly liberals using this “phony” issue for propaganda - From the blog MNblue - Brandon Day: A vet’s measured response to Rush Limbaugh’s “phony soldier” comment

Like every other vet I know that heard Limbaugh’s comment, I was angry. But I recognized it for what it was, a distraction. I didn’t concern myself with putting any energy into responding. The only reason I do so now is to make a point. In the few days since his comments, my email box has been inundated with outrage from the many vet’s groups I am associated with. I have seen ads put forth condemning Limbaugh. There are only so many anti-war vets, and we only have so much money and energy. Rush Limbaugh’s comment was a success in two ways. It drew attention away from the issue at hand, namely ending the war. (Much like the controversy over MoveOn’s NYT ad did.) It also made the vet movement use it’s precious resources to respond.We cannot allow ourselves to be distracted from the big picture. Rush Limbaugh is a draft dodger. Rush Limbaugh is a loud-mouthed syncophant of the 1984ish right-wing media. Rush Limbaugh has no understanding of the words that I hold so precious: “Duty to America.” But we knew these things before he called vets like me “phony soldiers”. We can not allow the likes of Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Coulter, etc… to hijack any of our precious energy that should be invested in ending this occupation for oil. So I offer Limbaugh congratulations on his investment. 15 seconds of bullshit from his mouth and the movement spent three days on something other than ending the war.

Brandon Day
Secretary, Iraq Veterans Against the War - Minnesota Chapter
brandon@ivaw.org

Ok I saw this story on the news a few minutes ago and was stunned.
Being former Air Force and having the opportunity through video production to work with flight crews, maintenance crews on producing training videos everybody connected with B-52’s B-1’s ect, this was not some “simple” mistake.

This is a story I will be following, live nukes being transported? As the guy in the article states you simple can’t mistakenly put live nukes on a plane, the protocols, the paper trail and security surrounding these aircraft are enormous.
If this was a “mistake” an entire fucken Air Force base needs to be fired. Something is just not right about this.

The only explanation is the pilot forgot how to fly to Iran; and Miss South Carolina was giving directions.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Six nuclear warheads on air-launched cruise missiles were mistakenly carried on a flight from North Dakota to Louisiana last week, prompting a major investigation, military officials have confirmed.

The plane took the cruise missiles from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base for decommissioning Thursday, the Air Force said.

“This is a major gaffe, and it’s going to cause some heads to roll down the line,” said Don Shepperd, a retired Air Force major general and military analyst for CNN.

The warheads should have been removed from the missiles before they were attached to the B-52 bomber, according to military officials.

The crew was unaware that the plane was carrying nuclear weapons, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the extraordinary sensitivity and security surrounding the case. More

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I gotta say, this John Soltz is clearly sleeping with Hillary or is on the payroll or hell both.
To suggest that Mrs. Bill is a credible military expert and would be supportive of the troops is a blatant lie. No rational person would or could suggest that, unless you are smoking crack or as I said having monkey sex with her.

Good reads from Michelle Malkin

The tale of Army Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp, the discredited “Baghdad Diarist” for the discredited New Republic magazine, is an old tale:Self-aggrandizing soldier recounts war atrocities. Media outlets disseminate soldier’s tales uncritically. Military folks smell a rat and poke holes in tales too good (or rather, bad) to be true. Soldier’s ideological sponsors blame the messengers for exposing anti-war fraud.Beauchamp belongs in the same ward as John F. Kerry, the original infectious agent of the toxic American disease known as Winter Soldier Syndrome. The ward is filling up.

U.S. military investigators concluded this week that Beauchamp concocted allegations of troop misconduct in a series of essays for The New Republic. “The investigation is complete and the allegations from PVT Beauchamp are false,” Major Steven Lamb, a spokesman for Multi National Division-Baghdad, told USA Today. The New Republic is standing by Beauchamp’s work. But Michael Goldfarb, online editor and blogger at The Weekly Standard who first challenged Beauchamp’s writing, reported Monday that Beauchamp had “signed a sworn statement admitting that all three articles he published in The New Republic were exaggerations and falsehoods — fabrications containing only ‘a smidgen of truth,’ in the words of our source.”

Read the rest here

This from: The Uncooperative Blogger

THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned from a military source close to the investigation that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp–author of the much-disputed “Shock Troops” article in the New Republic’s July 23 issue as well as two previous “Baghdad Diarist” columns–signed a sworn statement admitting that all three articles he published in the New Republic were exaggerations and falsehoods–fabrications containing only “a smidgen of truth,” in the words of our source.Separately, we received this statement from Major Steven F. Lamb, the deputy Public Affairs Officer for Multi National Division-Baghdad:

An investigation has been completed and the allegations made by PVT Beauchamp were found to be false. His platoon and company were interviewed and no one could substantiate the claims.

According to the military source, Beauchamp’s recantation was volunteered on the first day of the Military’s investigation. So as Beauchamp was in Iraq signing an affidavit denying the truth of his stories, the New Republic was publishing a statement from him on its website on July 26, in which Beauchamp said, “I’m willing to stand by the entirety of my articles for the New Republic using my real name.”

Anti-war people and those on the Left are always willing to believe the worst of our troops, not I. If people had any sense this would be the end of the New Republic, because we need to get back to the OLD Republic that our founding fathers gave us before it is too late. I for one am tired of the hate America crowd.

Also check out his post: US Bridge Safety & Illegal Aliens

“a subcontractor providing rebar installation for major bridge projects in Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee used illegal aliens who did not have valid welding certifications. Are these welding jobs the jobs Americans won’t do that the pro-illegal immigrationists are always mentioning?Talk about public safety! I just wonder what other possible areas there are unqualified illegal aliens working on infrastructure projects?”

This from Atlas Shrugs

Gateway has been following it all here. 

The Weekly Standard Blog has been leading the efforts to find the truth behind the disgusting anti-military hit pieces at The New Republic.

Today, Multi-National Force Iraq responded to the horrific allegations of war crimes at the liberal magazine. It is more evidence that the writer who goes by the name “Scott Thomas” at The New Republic is slandering the troops in Iraq:

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Michelle Malkin has more anti military from Daily Kos: “KILLITARY” and the Daily Kos Update: Who is “liquidman?” 
The diary has now been deleted. It was cross-posted here and now that post has also been deleted. Ace had a correspondent who was able to save and capture the post’s text. Here’s the intro:

KILLITARY: Are America’s Armed Forces Creating Serial Killers and Mass Murderers?

This article in no way is meant to suggest that all miltary members will become serial killers or mass murderers. It does point out a serious problem with what is happening in our armed forces and seeks a solution to help the brave men and women on their return back home.

According to the July 30, 2007 issue of The Nation magazine, damning photos of a U.S. Soldier using a spoon to literally scoop out the brains of a dead Iraqi and pretending to eat the gray matter were recently acquired.

Of course, everyone is appropriately appalled and make all claims of disgust and finger-wagging. Research shows, however, that such unacceptable behavior happens more often than the United States military wants you to know.

When it comes to training killing machines, the military really does create “an Army of one.”

The list of serial killers and mass murderers borne from the military is astounding.

Read more at Michelle Malkin

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Story from Hot Air, I remembered the story by Myers which makes this more interesting to me at least. 

On May 17, NBC reported a blockbuster exclusive on the superiority of Dragon Skin body armor over Interceptor, the body armor that the US Army issues to soldiers in combat zones. But NBC’s story has a major flaw: It’s wrong about nearly everything.

From the Sun - UK

IRANIAN forces are being choppered over the Iraqi border to bomb Our Boys, intelligence chiefs say.

Military experts claim this worrying move means we are at WAR with Iran in all but name.

Last night an intelligence source told The Sun: “It is an extremely alarming development and raises the stakes considerably. In effect, it means we are in a full on war with Iran — but nobody has officially declared it.

“We have hard proof that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps have crossed the border to attack us.

“It is very hard for us to strike back. All we can do is try to defend ourselves. We are badly on the back foot.”

Our Boys picked up the Iranian helicopters on radar crossing into empty desert.

The sightings have been confirmed to The Sun by very senior military sources.

At least two Brit squaddies are thought to have been killed by bombs planted during these incursions into Maysan province — Corporal Ben Leaning, 24, and Trooper Kristen Turton, 27.

A further 44 British deaths have also been linked to the highly advanced bombs, rockets and mortars which originated in Iran.

Coming so swiftly after the kidnap of 15 Royal Navy sailors in the Gulf, our revelation will send strained relations between London and Tehran plummeting further.

Until now, secret units from Iran’s fanatical RGC have restricted themselves to just training and arming Shia rebels in Iraq.

They include the al Quds Brigade — a secretive force tasked to spread Islamic revolution abroad who are the main backers for Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon and are also active in Palestine and northern Iraq.

An MoD spokeswoman said: “There is evidence that explosive devices used against our troops in southern Iraq originated in Iran.

“Any Iranian link to armed militias in Iraq either through weapons supply, training or funding are unacceptable.

Now this is funny as hell, but brilliant also!

As part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons, the proposal suggested, “One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior.”

The documents show the Air Force lab asked for $7.5 million to develop such a chemical weapon.

“The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soliders to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistably attractive to one another,” Hammond said after reviwing the documents.

The Pentagon did not approve funding for this “weapon”; it was just a proposal like lots of other proposals.

I’m not sure, would the Gay Rights folks be pissed off at hearing about this or would that be like…hey…

SEATTLE —  A man who tried to position himself as a leader of the anti-war movement by claiming to have participated in war crimes while serving in Iraq is facing federal charges of falsifying his record.

Jesse Adam Macbeth, 23, formerly of Phoenix, garnered attention on blogs and in some alternative media after he began claiming in 2005 to have been awarded a Purple Heart for his service, which he said included slaughtering innocents in a Fallujah mosque. His story was contradicted by his discharge form, showing that he was kicked out of the Army after six weeks at Fort Benning, Ga., in 2003 because of his “entry level performance and conduct.”

A complaint unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court in Seattle charged him with one count of using or possessing a forged or altered military discharge certificate, and one count of making false statements in seeking benefits from the Veterans Administration.

Macbeth’s public defender, Jay Stansell, declined to comment.

Organizations that opposed the war, including Iraq Veterans Against the War, posted videos or statements containing Macbeth’s claims on their Web sites. In one videotaped interview, a skinny, stuttering Macbeth, dressed in a camouflage jacket, described slaughtering hundreds of people in a mosque: “We would burn their bodies … hang their bodies from the rafters in the mosque,” he said.

Read more here from Fox News

DENVER - Soldiers serving overseas will lose some of their online links to friends and loved ones back home under a Department of Defense policy that a high-ranking Army official said would take effect Monday.

The Defense Department will begin blocking access “worldwide” to YouTube, MySpace and 11 other popular Web sites on its computers and networks, according to a memo sent Friday by Gen. B.B. Bell, the U.S. Forces Korea commander.

The policy is being implemented to protect information and reduce drag on the department’s networks, according to Bell.

“This recreational traffic impacts our official DoD network and bandwidth ability, while posing a significant operational security challenge,” the memo said.

The armed services have long barred members of the military from sharing information that could jeopardize their missions or safety, whether electronically or by other means.

The new policy is different because it creates a blanket ban on several sites used by military personnel to exchange messages, pictures, video and audio with family and friends.

Members of the military can still access the sites on their own computers and networks, but Defense Department computers and networks are the only ones available to many soldiers and sailors in Iraq and        Afghanistan.

Iraqi insurgents or their supporters have been posting videos on YouTube at least since last fall, and the Army recently began posting videos on YouTube showing soldiers defeating insurgents and befriending Iraqis.

But the new rules mean many military personnel won’t be able to watch those videos — at least not on military computers.

If the restrictions are intended to prevent soldiers from giving or receiving bad news, they could also prevent them from providing positive reports from the field, said Noah Shachtman, who runs a national security blog for Wired Magazine.

“This is as much an information war as it is bombs and bullets,” he said. “And they are muzzling their best voices.”

The sites covered by the ban are the video-sharing sites YouTube, Metacafe, IFilm, StupidVideos and FileCabi; social networking sites MySpace, BlackPlanet and Hi5; music sites Pandora, MTV, 1.fm and live365; and the photo-sharing site Photobucket.

Several companies have instituted similar bans, saying recreational sites drain productivity.

By JENNIFER LOVEN
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration and Kansas’ governor started Tuesday pointing fingers at each other over the response to last week’s devastating tornado. By lunchtime, both sides had backed down.

With President Bush set to travel to now-razed Greensburg, Kan., on Wednesday to view the destruction wrought by Friday’s 205 mph twister, Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said she planned to talk with him about her contention that National Guard deployments to Iraq hampered the disaster response.

“I don’t think there is any question if you are missing trucks, Humvees and helicopters that the response is going to be slower,” she said Monday. “The real victims here will be the residents of Greensburg, because the recovery will be at a slower pace.”

Story via the Today Show:

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Found on the blog Red State

by Eric Dondero

You really want to confuse a Liberal? Liberals are all high and mighty. They think that they are supporters of civil liberties. They think they are the tolerant ones.

Bring up the issue of the Drinking Age with them, particularly for Military Guys.

First off, as we know Liberals “loathe” the Military. They don’t want to give anything to Military Guys, or even acknowledge them, if they can help it.

Secondly, they are all Nanny-staters. They want the government to control all aspects of our lives: thus you see them supporting seat belt laws, bicycle helmets for little kids, mandatory spray and neutering of our dogs, leash laws, banning smoking in bars and bingo halls and amazingly in Arizona outlawing “sexy mudflaps” on pick-up trucks, ect…

You see the Liberal always knows what’s best for us.

Confound them. Call them out. Confuse them.

Mention to them how you support lowering the drinking age laws to 18 for Military Guys. And watch them squirm.

I wrote an excellent editorial on the issue yesterday at www.libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com There’s lots of good ammunition there for the argument, (pardon the pun). Check it out.

Ok I’m late on this one, this was covered by Sister Toldjah, Right Wing News, Michelle Malkin, Wizbang, better late than never to post something on liberal ignorance.

Michelle Malkin has a hilarious post about the Democrats’ efforts to portray themselves as a party that supports military veterans. What is so funny about it is that along with their “We Support Vets” campaign they ran a picture of a soldier from Canada (in the picture above in the beret).

Michelle also reports that LGF found the source of the photo and it appears that a badge on the beret was removed with Photoshop.

I’m with Blackfive on this one: “how screwed up must you be to post about how much your party supports the troops, but not know who your troops are? ‘Embarassing’ hardly begins to describe this error.”

It is embarrassing to post a picture of another country’s vets as your own, but I think the picture of all the Democrats is almost as strange. The people in the picture pumping their fists in the air look like they just won the lottery (or since they are Democrats, just got some tax cuts repealed), rather than voicing support for their troops and vets. Check out the guy in the bottom left corner. When is the last time you saw a Democrat look that excited about supporting our troops?

Update: Michelle has updated to note the DNC has removed the soldier’s picture and replaced it with an American flag. A few readers noticed that the flag looks like it has been burned. It looks that way to me, too. I don’t know if that is the picture I would have chosen if trying to distract voters from the flag burners supporting my party.

I think I have figured out where the picture of the people above came from — a Democrat audience in a showing of the Bush assassination movie. Actually a commenter, Dave, says that LGF reader Cattt discovered it is a stock photo.

Update II: Hot Air says the DNC didn’t do the photoshopping themselves.

Laura Lee Donoho thought the picture of the people they chose to use was strange, too.

Update III: It just dawned on me that if the Democrats needed to know what a veteran of the U.S. military looked like, they could have just asked me. I pulled this one out of my wedding album:

Mechanics scavenge parts from outdated planes to go on others the Air Force wants to retire but can’t. Congress has ordered that they remain in service.

DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. — It is only 7 a.m., but John Nimrichter has been pulling parts from outdated military airplanes for an hour already. “These things get sizzling hot,” he says, looking up at a 1950s-era B-52 bomber sitting on the baked desert just south of Tucson. “You’ll lose your breath.”

Driving up and down endless rows of mothballed fighters, bombers, helicopters and cargo planes, Nimrichter and a crew of 63 fellow Air Force mechanics mine them for replacement parts for aircraft still in use.

Many pieces go into planes on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan, a cheaper way to repair them than buying new parts. But increasingly, the salvaged parts from the Arizona installation known as “the boneyard” are keeping together aircraft the Air Force doesn’t want anymore: B-52s produced in the 1950s; cargo planes from the ’60s; in-air refueling tankers dating to the 1950s and ’60s.

Even as the Air Force is struggling to find money for new fighters, bombers, tankers and cargo planes, it estimates it will spend close to $1.6 billion over the next five years just to maintain aircraft it wants to jettison. It can’t get rid of them — and free up money for new aircraft — because often the older aircraft have been given special protections by Congress.

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