Rummie will be spending next week out of harm's way

[DoYouEverWonder]

The defense secretary is on an eight-day around-the-world mission aboard the National Airborne Operations Center, an aircraft nicknamed the Doomsday Plane because it would be the flying command post for American leaders in case of nuclear war.

The reconfigured Boeing 747 has a secure teleconferencing suite, nozzles for midair refueling and oversize computer consoles for a nuclear battle staff, like something out of a cold war film festival. But Air Force planners apparently gave no thought to stables.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/international/asia/23rumsfeld.html

Odd time to decide to spend a entire week flying around on a plane like this? Wonder what Rummie is really up to. Does he need a safe place to run his next Shock & Awe campaign, in order to distract from the indictments? Or does he just want a ring side seat for the invasion of Syria?

[fooj]

1. That's just plain, fucking creepy.

:scared:

[HereSince1628]

2. How many dooms day planes do we have?

How many are usually outside the US?

[NanceGreggs]

3. Perhaps they should re-name the plane ...

... and call it 'The Flying Dutchman'.

The way things are going (and hopefully will go this week), Rummy may be flying around forever, unable to return to the Bu$hCo country he once knew and loved!!!!!

[Renew Deal]

4. What does this button do?

:nuke:

[MadisonProgressive]

5. Looking for asylum?

[tulsakatz]

6. oh! isn't that nice!

so if there is nuclear war, these guys are just going to be flying around the world while the rest of us are down here dying!!!

That figures......leave it to Bush to figure out how to run away, yet again!!!!

[Pithy Cherub]

7. Rummy is going to *fly above it all* and see who is

still standing (oop, presiding) after this week in D.C.! :eyes:

[undeterred]

8. He's probably been threatened.

Either that, or he's safe and the rest of us aren't.

Maybe aliens will grab him up for dinner.