Bloggers credited with forcing EADS CASA to cancel Chavez sale

Bloggers are being credited with inducing EADS CASA to cancel its $600 million military aircraft contract with the Chavez regime.

Earth Times quotes this blogger as saying, "This is another example of the New Media's impact on international politics."

"Outside the blogosphere, this issue was off the radar screen. Bloggers publicized that EADS-CASA is lobbying Congress to buy its CN-235 and C-295 military planes while it was defying U.S. national security interests to sell the same planes to Chavez," this blogger said in the report.

The report cited another website, SecureTheHomeland.org, through which hundreds of people flooded key congressional leaders with faxes and emails urging Congress to ban any US government purchases of EADS CASA aircraft.

"Lawmakers didn't have to say a thing to the company. The fact that they were alerted was enough," this blogger said in a report picked up by the technology site Sys-Con Media. "The guys who did the website that sent letters into Congress really made the difference."