During his recent visit to Beijing, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Chinese President Hu Jingtao that Washington is willing to sell retired USS Kitty Hawk and USS Ranger to China to help narrow the trade deficit between both countries.
via War News Updates: Breaking News: Gates Offered Retired Aircraft Carriers To China.
Good one.
Jesus, Brad. You had me going for a moment there, and I’d already even read your Stetson post.
April Fools to you, too!
Well, I wouldn’t put it past the current administration.
That’s the problem with a April Fool’s joke like this with the current crop of incompetents in DC. It’s just too plausible. It’s even plausible with Gates.
How sad it is that this would have been an obvious April Fool’s joke just three years ago…