Are We Preparing to Nuke Iran by Larry Johnson

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http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2007/11/07/are-we-preparing-to-nuke-iran

Are We Preparing to Nuke Iran
By Larry Johnson on November 7, 2007 at 12:07 AM in Current Affairs

More today on the mysterious movement of nuclear tipped cruise missiles from Minot to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana in September. An excellent piece in Counter Punch by Dave Lindorff identifies some key gaps in the story. According to Lindorff:

The Pentagon has been stonewalling on my requests for answers to key questions. For two weeks a public affairs office has been declining to respond to my question about whether the six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles flown by B-52 from Minot AFB to Barksdale AFB were programmed for specific targets, and if so what those targets were, or even whether the team that investigated the incident checked to see if they were targeted.

The Air Force and Pentagon have also declined to explain whether US nuclear weapons in storage in US bunkers have been provided with the same alarm and motion-detection sensors that the National Nuclear Security Agency helped to install on the nukes being stored on Russian bases.


So I sent the article to my buddy, the B-52 pilot (retired). Here’s his take:

I can’t fault any of the logic he (Lindorff) uses and no matter what road you take they all come back to the fact that there is more to this than just a mistake. We both agree that there was another purpose for the nukes than to mistakenly put them on obsolete, soon to be destroyed, cruise missiles and ship them off. They were used as “saber rattling” or a prelude to their actual use. I can understand the first one, the second one scares me. Whatever the truth is may not be known for some time, but for now it seems things may have been put on hold. Although we still are making a lot of noise about Iran etc. I’m sure that one of the plans for any response in that area would be to use cruise missiles with nukes to take out the major defenses and their capability to make their own weapons.

I do not know Lindorff’s sources, but I know my friend. He’s a combat veteran and quite conservative. I take his word seriously. The Bush Administration got caught at Barksdale. I believe they were trying to pre-position nukes for use in Iran. Let’s pray I am wrong.

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1. More Questions About the Minot Nukes

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2213171



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=125&topic_id=181541&mesg_id=181541

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2. Just learned from an associate:

The Pentagon has ordered an additional air-to-air refueling squadron to be deployed to the Iraqi Theatre. Seems like someone is gonna need alot of jet fuel...

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4. Because?

georgie is planning to air lift all our soldiers home?

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3. I wonder if the Chinese are dumping Dollars ahead of an Iran Strike

Because I would do so if I were them and thought that the US was going to do such an insane thing. Put the reserves in gold.

[Timmy5835]

5. Here's why I don't think we'll touch Iran

Like it or not China owns our economy, hell, thru there loans to this country, they are largely financing the Iraq war. If they wanted to they could call in there loans bankrupting this country in short order. In my opinion, very little but bluster will happen to Iran.