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Hakahura · 04-14-08, 05:23 PM

Kind of funny and fitting if you ask me.
Payback for the way Lockheed "Sold" the F104 around Europe 60's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals

If it's OK for USA to supply other countries defense equipment, then why not the other way round?
Besides aren't US/UK/Europe supposed to be allies?

04-14-08, 05:23 PM	#3
Hakahura Grey Wolf Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Posts: 785 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Kind of funny and fitting if you ask me. Payback for the way Lockheed "Sold" the F104 around Europe 60's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals If it's OK for USA to supply other countries defense equipment, then why not the other way round? Besides aren't US/UK/Europe supposed to be allies? __________________ Sir Humphey Appleby, GCB, KBE, MVO and MA. Britain's Greatest Orator, well bar that Churchill fellow.