Dissent Within the Ranks

I caught this story first from Intranets, and what follows are some thoughts to his post (and Sarah's) at Correntewire:

Having lived within the blast and fallout zone outside the Bangor sub base on Puget Sound, it doesn’t surprise me that nukes would be above us or around us without our knowing it. Routinely.

Look up the Nike missile program sometime…

For the D.o’D. to “lose track” of them at any level, and admit it immediately is a sign Something Really Weird is going on.

So if an officially non-nuclear nuke is used against, I dunno why I say this, maybe Iran, is it still nukular?

Does CNN report it as nuking Tehran if the D.o’D. won’t acknowledge it as a real nuke? And say if for example, someone decides to nuke us right back, is the strike back on us “unprovoked” if Dear Leader won’t acknowledge our strike in the first place?

If planes can be flown into buildings without the D.o’D. knowing about it, can fission cruise missiles be fired on Iran without them knowing about it either? Or for that matter, on America?

Larry Johnson sez:

...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.

Larry seems to be on to something. This was a leak from within the belly of the Beast. Not everyone in the Company digs the Cheneyburton WWIII schtick.