U.S. Air Force's aerial refuelling tanker replacement?

Question

With the trend of purchasing foreign aircraft to fill the U.S. military's needs (ie: Air Force's T-6 "Texan II"; Army's C-23 "Sherpa" and UH-72 "Lakota"; Coast Guard's HU-25 "Guardian", HH-65 "Dolphin", and MH-68 "Stingray"; Marines VH-71A "Kestrel", etc.), what are the odds that the U.S. Air Force will pick the the Northrup-Grumman/Airbus A-330 over the Boeing/McDonnel-Douglas 767-200?

Answer 1

Depends how p-o is our President with French builders of the A330. Either plane would do the job about equally well.
The 767 is proven and cheaper but the A330 can carry more fuel than requested. Why not "Buy American!"?
By the time the contract requires new workers, mid-2008, we may be in a recession and jobs of this high quality will be, and always are, very rare.
Maybe someone could remind Pres. Bush that the French are, and have been, more against the War in Iraq than, even, the American people. Maybe not, no telling what he might do.

Answer 2

Interesting thought...

I was rather disgusted that we picked a non-US DESIGNED bird to serve as "Marine One" !! Siskorsky has a wonderful bird ready to go (H-92 Superhawk)!!

I got two flights in a Dolphin... DAMN that is a SMALL helicopter !!

I've got 2300 hours in the SH-60B... and about 400 hours in the S-3B Viking... I wonder what they'll use to replace HER with in 2009 ??