Here's another view:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/f...20030903.shtml
. . . ." As the legislative branch works to help President Bush and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld “transform” the U.S. military in order to fight and win the Nation’s 21st Century wars, there are few actions Congress can take that will have a greater, near-term transformative effect than would its approval this week of the lease of 100 new tankers. The American people surely understand the transaction that will make such an acquisition possible. They are unlikely, however, to comprehend – or forgive – further, unwarranted interference with its prompt execution. "