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2007-01-22 Fifth Column

Pentagon Parts Finding Their Way to Iran

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Posted by Bobby 2007-01-22 06:10|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 How about if they sell them to a guy named Bob, not a crazy eyed dude named Azim? Bob may just sell them for scrap like he is supposed to.

Posted by Creath Flavins8042 2007-01-22 06:48|| 2007-01-22 06:48|| Front Page Top

#2 That's WaPo flavored.

Posted by Bobby 2007-01-22 07:44|| 2007-01-22 07:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Big problem here is DRMO trying to get as much money for these used parts as possible. Which means selling them more or less intact and counting on the "scrap dealers" to be honest. I'd run sensitive parts into a crusher before they left my control.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2007-01-22 12:11|| 2007-01-22 12:11|| Front Page Top

#4 There is no reason to sell F-14 specific surplus. The only other operator is Iran and that's where it will end up whether Bob or Babil buys it.

Posted by ed 2007-01-22 12:29|| 2007-01-22 12:29|| Front Page Top

#5 I'd run sensitive parts into a crusher before they left my control.

Of the materiel or of the buyers?

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-01-22 13:00|| 2007-01-22 13:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Sell Iran critical parts on the black market that are ~~designed~~ modified to fail at the most importune time. Ground their remaining F-14 ~~fleet~~ few airplanes that may be in service. Sow the seeds of distrust broadly.

Posted by GK 2007-01-22 13:56|| 2007-01-22 13:56|| Front Page Top

#7 AND---make a profit, to boot. Just make the parts so they cannot fix them when they get wise to our nefarious commerce strategy.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-01-22 16:30|| 2007-01-22 16:30|| Front Page Top

#8 DRMO is required by law, passed by Congress, to get the best possible price for the surplus it sells. Congress created this mess with bills passed during the Clinton Administration to increase DRMO sales and revenues, to help pump up the "Peace Dividend". If Congress wished to, they could create a category of no-sales surplus that had to be scrapped in certified scrapyards : several cities do that with seized firearms from crimes. But, Congress is allowed to have their cake and eat it too : they can bitch at DOD for the sales and use it for political capital, without having to actually do anything about it.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-01-22 16:45|| 2007-01-22 16:45|| Front Page Top

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