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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-19-07 09:48 PM
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Nukes Over America: All a Stupid Mistake. Sure It Was
Nukes Over America: All a Stupid Mistake. Sure It Was
Submitted by dlindorff on October 19, 2007 - 9:35pm. US-Iran Attack Plan
By Dave Lindorff

The Air Force’s Friday report on the August 29-30 nuclear weapons incident which saw six armed cruise missiles flown across the continental US in launch position on a B-52H bomber leaves all the big questions unanswered, attempting to shuck the whole thing off as an “unacceptable mistake.”


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Nobody, apparently, asked the Air Force either about six mysterious violent deaths of Air Force personnel from Minot and Barksdale, and from a mysterious Air Force Special Commando Group, all of which occurred in the days and weeks immediately before, during and after the incident. Two of those deaths—of the Special Commando Group officer and of a Minot weapons guard—were reportedly “suicides.”

In an article in the current issue of American Conservative magazine, currently on newsstands, I report that incredibly, no federal investigators from the Pentagon or the federal government even bothered to contact the police investigators or medical examiners who investigated those six deaths—an remarkable failure of due diligence, given the seriousness of this incident.

One retired Navy officer who contacted me during my investigation, who worked in electronic warfare, told me it would be simply impossible for those weapons to have been moved out of the storage bunker. He claims to know for a certainty that all nuclear weapons in the US arsenal are equipped with high-tech tags (“like they have at WalMart and Kmart only better”) that would instantly trigger alarms when the weapons are moved, unless they were deliberately disarmed.

So what we have is pretty clearly a cover-up here.

more at:
http://www.democrats.com/node/14648
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-19-07 09:51 PM
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1. definitely some next level shit going on somewhere
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-19-07 09:58 PM
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2. Of course, the whole thing stinks
Like why the missiles were transported by B52's in the first place.

I thought cruise missiles were moved only by ground transportation with military escorts.

Why the deviation from standard procedures?
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 10:58 AM
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9. They are flown, but not assembled. n/t
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-19-07 10:03 PM
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3. The problem is the gov't is intentionally trying to incite the masses
but we're too smart/stupid to react.

And all of those "detention" centers remain (mostly) empty. Tsk tsk.
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 04:39 AM
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6. We can fill up those detention centers
with members of * gang.
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-19-07 10:12 PM
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4. so who the fuck in congress is going to INVESTIGATE this shit?
i'm emailing this article to my senators and a few people in congress

this is real serious shit. and what the hell is being done about this? NOTHING!
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 11:30 AM
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14. Maybe one or two people want to, but the congressional leadership won't, just like...
Sen. Leahy won't call for Sibel Edmonds to testify about what she knows.
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 01:21 AM
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5. wouldn't the movement of nukes need the sanction of the President?
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MiniMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 07:03 AM
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7. Next "stupid mistake" - Transporting them to the Middle East
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 07:19 AM
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8. Not one word on networks or cable
need anymore proof of a cover-up?
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Bluerthanblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 11:16 AM
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11. it was on one of the 3 networks last night- don't remember
which one- but it was there.

That surprised me.
At first.

I'll try and find out which one if you'd like.

peace~
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 11:18 AM
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12. Thanks n/t
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Bluerthanblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 11:36 AM
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15. it was cbs- here is a link to the story they aired-
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 11:45 AM
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16. Thanks B.B.
"White House press secretary Dana Perino said Thursday that President Bush "appreciates the fact that Secretary Gates (had moved quickly) to find out what went wrong, make sure it doesn't happen again, and hold people to account if anyone did something wrong."


My gut is in tune with your gut. Guts ack.
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Bluerthanblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 11:03 AM
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10. intentional incident- intentional 'leak' of info-
imo-

This is supposed to plant fear in us. It is meant to subconsiously encourage us to do what we are told, for fear of the government.

go ahead and call me crazy or pass the reynolds wrap

It's what my gut is telling me.

peace~
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 11:27 AM
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13. If true, they were probably going to NUKE targets in Iran.
You don't move nukes out of the storage bunkers unless you are going to use them in tests or in times of war.
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pnorman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 12:47 PM
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17. I nevere knew exactly what an "Advanced Cruise Missile" looked like, until I just now Googled.
Here it is: http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/acm.htm

That's IMPOSSIBLE to "overlook". Even an untrained observer looking up at the sky, would have been alarmed.

pnorman .
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