WTF??? Terrorism Funds May Let Brass Fly in Style

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The Air Force's top leadership sought for three years to spend counterterrorism funds on "comfort capsules" to be installed on military planes that ferry senior officers and civilian leaders around the world, with at least four top generals involved in design details such as the color of the capsules' carpet and leather chairs, according to internal e-mails and budget documents.

Production of the first capsule -- consisting of two sealed rooms that can fit into the fuselage of a large military aircraft -- has already begun.

Air Force officials say the government needs the new capsules to ensure that leaders can talk, work and rest comfortably in the air. But the top brass's preoccupation with creating new luxury in wartime has alienated lower-ranking Air Force officers familiar with the effort, as well as congressional staff members and a nonprofit group that calls the program a waste of money.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071703161_pf.html

[ixion]

1. this is always the way things are in a dictatorship

welcome to the new 'Murika. :(

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. The fuckin' Air Farce.

Some of the biggest spenders of tax dollars on creature comforts for the brass. Big budgets that waste money, too.