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Why the hubbub over a B-52 taking off from a B-52 base in Minot, North Dakota and subsequently landing at a B-52 base in Barksdale, Louisiana? That’s like getting excited if you see a postal worker in uniform walking out of a post office. And how does someone watching a B-52 land identify the cruise missiles as nukes? It just does not make sense.

So I called a old friend and retired B-52 pilot and asked him. What he told me offers one compelling case of circumstantial evidence. My buddy, let’s call him Jack D. Ripper, reminded me that the only times you put weapons on a plane is when they are on alert or if you are tasked to move the weapons to a specific site.

Then he told me something I had not heard before.

Barksdale Air Force Base is being used as a jumping off point for Middle East operations. Gee, why would we want cruise missile nukes at Barksdale Air Force Base. Can’t imagine we would need to use them in Iraq. Why would we want to preposition nuclear weapons at a base conducting Middle East operations?

His final point was to observe that someone on the inside obviously leaked the info that the planes were carrying nukes. A B-52 landing at Barksdale is a non-event. A B-52 landing with nukes. That is something else.

Now maybe there is an innocent explanation for this? I can’t think of one. What is certain is that the pilots of this plane did not just make a last minute decision to strap on some nukes and take them for a joy ride. We need some tough questions and clear answers. What the hell is going on? Did someone at Barksdale try to indirectly warn the American people that the Bush Administration is staging nukes for Iran? I don’t know, but it is a question worth asking.

Bouncer wrote:Sorry, but no.

The US may do a lot of different things to send a signal to Iran, but announcing that they temporarily lost control of some of their nuclear weapons is sure as hell NOT one of the ways they go about it. They also wouldn't destroy the careers of half a dozen people in order to embarass themselves so that the Iranians might figure out that (gasp!) We has teh bombz0rz!

And B-52's do not stage specifically from Barksdale to the middle east. They can stage from pretty much anywhere, and have done so from a variety of bases. It's good imagination on the part of this guy, but it's not really plausible when you sit down and think about it.

Regards,
-Bouncer-

Spammy wrote:I have no idea what to think.

blebs99 wrote:Don't bother thinking. It'll only give you a tension headache.

Gixxer wrote:why would we need to stage anything...we can shoot them from anywhere and hit them or fly them over in one non-stop flight

Comtrad wrote:Yeah, but since when do we do things that make any sense?

Spammy wrote:When we voted Bush as President..


Runs out of thread laughing.....