> Coincidence, of course. > I should add that we may not have heard the end of > this yet - as it's not clear why the warheads hadn't > been removed ahead of time (which is standard > practice); nor why the first reports said that there
> were six warheads instead of five! ... It should also be mentioned that one blogger called a retired B-52 pilot (friend) and asked him about protocol. To paraphrase this and another blog: His buddy, lets call him Jack D. Ripper, said that when you put *armed* nuclear weapons on the wings of a B-52 (which is inherently risky - and extremely dangerous to all concerned, including the public) then you are "on alert". Jack also mentioned, along with the spiel about "precious bodily fluids" that Barksdale Air Force Base is used as a jumping off point for Middle East operations. Imagine that. Now maybe there is an innocent explanation for this, which makes more sense than the obvious lie coming out of DC- the Cheney-spin that these advanced missles, the best we have, were "being decommissioned". Who knows? As one blogger (Larry Johnson) sez: 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. **Did someone at Barksdale try to indirectly warn the American people that the Bush Administration is staging nukes for Iran? I dont know, but it is a question worth asking.**
