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Old 05-12-2009
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Re: Air Force One NYC Fly-over

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Originally Posted by wooyarn View Post
Every time one of the Presidential planes take off, even if the President is not onboard, they have a fighter escort. so no fighter was SCRAMBLED. The fighter escorts are fully armed. And yes under certain conditions the Pentagon can scramble fighters with out prior Presidential permission.
So, its ok the president has to give no authorization for a fighter jet to fly over a major metropolitan city at 10,000 ft or less at times?

Nice... let's just imagine for 10 seconds if Bush did this how you libs would be reacting...

I kinda love the double standard...

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