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After Obama's bad deal, American Black Hawk helicopters

Posted: Jun 26, 2017

for Afghan Air Force. The Donald Trump Pentagon, in so many words, is saying that the Obama administration’s decision to waive punitive sanctions and buy combat helicopters from Russia was a bad deal. The Pentagon’s first congressionally required report on Afghanistan under President Trump says the Russian Mi-17 chopper has proved a failure in the long war and will be phased out in favor of American-made UH-60 Black Hawks. The Obama administration came to realize the failure in its last weeks in office and stopped the deal. The report this month on “Enhancing Security and Stability in Afghanistan” marks official confirmation that the Russian model broke down too often for the Afghan air force logistics system to keep up.;

Hello, wait a minute. The US bought combat helicopters from the - Russians? Was there collusion?

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Were they hacked?

Obama needs to be investigated for this! - !!!

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The post said he stopped the deal. Why does - he need to be investigated?

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Apparently Trump thinks its a bad deal to so why should Obama be investigated for stopping a bad deal? Should Trump be investigated too. Oh wait, he is being investigated for a lot of other things.

First, Trump is NOT BEING investigated. Comey said - so, Second, Obama must have "colluded"

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with the Russians for the helicopters. I believes it was a tongue in cheek joke.

Comey said he wasn't being investigated - and that was when?

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I don't mean he didn't say it but he said it quite a while ago so we really don't know what is going on now. We do know members of the Trump administration are being investigated. We also know the ethics committee is investigating him for his various business dealings and how they interact with his position.

We really don't know all the details of what is going on behind the scenes.

The investigation of Trump began after Comey was fired. - nm

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Once public perception is out there right or wrong, it's hard - to get the facts. Trump was never under FBI

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investigation. Comey said that.

He said it when he testified during the hearings! - He said during his testimony he

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told Trump 3 times he was not under investigation.

Well, we do know that Dianne Feinstein and her colleague - Truthhurts

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want to investigate the former AG, Loretta Lynch, for emails and the airport Clinton and Lynch meeting to talk about their "grandchildren." Yeah, right.

We also know that Trump was never under investigation for Russian ties because there never was any investigation on him and Comey stated 3 times that he wasn't under investigation, but Flynn, Manafort, and a third man were (can't remember his name).

We do know that the Dems are trying to force Trump's impeachment and we know it won't go anywhere just because Al Green and Maxine Waters hate him and they have no evidence for impeachment.

We do know that the Dems are doing everything they can to destroy Trump, including hurting his wife and children, his friends, and those he nominated and/or added to his administration.

Lastly, we do know that the Dems are lying (again) about people dying (flashback to 2008 and Obamacare - did anyone die like they said if it didn't?How the GOP would kill all these people if they didn't allow it to pass?) and are obstructing their congressional duties.

Now, my 2 cents. Government has NO right to be in the healthcare business. All it does is make healthcare more expensive and forced coverage that doesn't apply to probably half the population. I am against the "new" healthcare, too, not because it's Republican but before government screwed it up so bad, we'll never have decent insurance again.

Obama did NOT stop the deal. See my other post. - Truthhurts

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Copy and paste of 3 relevant paragraphs.

These 3 paragraphs says it all, but of course, it's Obama double standard as usual... - Truthhurts

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The administration allowed Rosoboronexport, the state-run arms broker, to stay off the sanctions list as it pertained to maintaining Mi-17s amid $554 million in U.S. funds via Afghanistan to supply the helicopter. The argument for the full deal was that Afghan pilots and crew members were more accustomed to Russian-made weapons systems.

In an era in Washington where any and all contacts with Russia by any Trump-connected person fetches intense media and Democrat scrutiny, the Obama administration showed that sometimes the political situation dictates that Washington must deal with Moscow.
Meanwhile, Moscow has lent credibility to the brutal Taliban insurgency by arguing that it is fighting the Islamic State terrorists anchored in Afghanistan.

The Obama administration’s last Pentagon update on Afghanistan in December did not announce an Mi-17 cancellation or procurement of the U.S. Army workhorse UH-60.

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