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“On Sept. 8, the Republican presidential candidate told a rally crowd in Lee’s Summit, Mo., about an Obama video message to a liberal advocacy group. ‘He promised them he would, quote, ‘slow our development of Future Combat Systems,’’ McCain said, according to wire reports. ‘This is not a time to slow our development of Future Combat Systems.’ Flashback to July, however, when his campaign furnished McCain’s economic plan to The Washington Post, declaring that ‘there are lots of procurements — Airborne Laser, [C-17] Globemaster, Future Combat System [sic] — that should be ended and the entire Pentagon budget should be scrubbed.’” [Link]