More budget discoveries

It looks as though the Pentagon is trying to use the war to get some of their pet projects funded. Some examples:

$400,000,000 for two F-35 fighters, which won't be ready until 2010
$74,000,000 to design a spy plane that won't be tested for two years
$300,000,000 more for the Osprey which has never seen combat and likely will never do so.

Bernie Sanders summed it up, "Our soldiers are knocking on doors in Baghdad, but they (the Pentagon) want billions of dollars for high-tech weapons that are designed for the Cold War."

Will Gates make any sort of difference relative to the waste of our money?