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 thttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifry 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.
This is obviously speculation -- and Josh Marshall says he has spoken with some experts who think it was all just the result of an innocent mixup. But if Bush's plans for Iran involve isotopes, this would clearly be a necessary step.
It's a strange mixup indeed that puts nuclear weapons at the airbase that's serving as the stateside staging ground for Middle East operations. How many cases do we have to witness where the "innocent" explanation is incompetence?
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