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There is no such thing as Oops with Nuclear Weapons
By David Glenn Cox

There are certain aspects of the Bush administration that have made themselves glaringly obvious after six and a half years. Rule number 1, They never ever ever, ever tell the truth about anything, no matter how small or how inconsequential. The truth must always be dragged out of them like a dentist pulling wisdom teeth. Only after the lies and cover stories have all been exposed will the administration begin to admit the truth. Then only the truth that they are willing to tell and even then only to explain away any wrong doings on their part.

Rule number 2, Admit nothing ever ever ever! Even if caught red handed even if subpoenaed by Congress or court. They live and die on the Sargent Schulz dictum; “I know nothing! I see nothing!” and the Gonsalez corollary two step, “I wasn’t at that meeting so I don’t know Senator I have no recollection of that Colonel Hogan, I mean Senator.”

So when the administration just blithely drops into the conversation, “You know what? You ain’t never gonna guess what happened? It was the darndest thing I ever did see! Well me and the boys over to the Minot airbase we was loading bombs on one of them big ole airplanes and dang if we didn’t put the wrong bombs on that there airoplane and flew them down to wesianna. Don’t that take the rag offen the bush?

The administration that defends the indefensible from the military and gets it’s nickers in a twist over bad jokes at the military’s expense suddenly wants you to believe Gomer Pyle is loading nuclear bombers. Where they not such practiced liars it would be easier to figure out what they are about. But they are up to something and it involves nuclear weapons.

Maybe it’s an attempt to loosen the control on the nuclear arsenal by embarrassing the military. Maybe the bombs were destined for Iraq and then eventually Iran and somebody let the cat out of the bag. Maybe they will claim the nuclear strike on Iran was an accident a mix up of war heads. But accidents in the transport of Nuclear weapons just don’t happen it’s not an oops situation. In 1958 a Strategic Air Command B47 bomber lost two engines during an in flight collision, the protocol was for the pilot to drop the weapon into the ocean 25 miles from the coastline.

Due to the nature of the damage the pilot dropped the weapon into the ocean off of Jekell Island Georgia near Savannah. To this day the military has been unable to locate the bomb but the paperwork is still intact. The pilot signed for the weapon and its paper work lists the model and serial number of the bomb. His commanding officer as well signed authorizing the weapon to be released to the pilot. The commanding general of the base signed that this was an authorized training mission and verifying the legitimacy of the other signatures. They’re pretty funny about who they let play with their bombs so when the Bush administration tells me woopsey I get nervous.

And five times with five weapons mounted on cruise missiles? That dog don’t hunt!
Why did they tell us?
What was gained by telling us?
Is it a cover story or a leak?
Is it a front story for later use or a back-story for something they’ve already done?

Perhaps they were moving the weapons into the War Theater and someone went public. The only thing for certain is the story we are getting is not the truth. (See rule 1)
Through out this administration the group that has shown the most back bone and resolve against the shenanigans of George Herbert Hoover Bush has been the pentagon. It has become almost a revolving door, the ambitious move up and the honest move out.

Bush’s position for a war czar was passed over by every major General in the military. The generals have routinely disputed the Presidents comments as false shortly before retiring. Maybe this time someone took it a step further and said no! The only thing for certain is the story we are getting is not the truth. There is no excuse for a first strike nuclear attack and just one more reason to make sure that the bomb removed from the arsenal is George Herbert Hoover Bush. This is an important event, this means sonething strange is going on.

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