[mikester]

I'm quite tired of people trashing military spending of late. Go take a look at how many B-17s were purchased and how many were lost over Germany and such...then go look at how many F-117s were purchased and lost over Bahgdad during the GulF war. The technology we spend our hard earned tax dollars on SAVED AMERICAN lives. We didn't loose a single F-117 over Iraq in that conflict and we don't have hardly a fraction of them in service compared to other bombers we've had. Compare them to losses over Vietnam....How many B-2s do we have to do the job of how many B-52s?

Seriously folks - one costs leaps and bounds more but it saves lives and does the work of multiples.

The F-22 is a fine replacement for the F-15 (which is a fine aircraft as well I might add).