Situation Normal AFU

Regarding the B-52 bomber which was mistakenly loaded with 5 or 6 nuclear warheads and flew from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. The incident was immediately used in the "left's" fear factoring, i.e. a nuke may be on its way to Iran!

From Larry Johnson : "Well, if you buy the nonsense reported in the Washington Post, I have a bridge to sell you. According to Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus, the snafu involving missing nukes was just a bad mistake. They write:

A simple error in a missile storage room led to missteps at every turn, as ground crews failed to notice the warheads, and as security teams and flight crew members failed to provide adequate oversight and check the cargo thoroughly. An elaborate nuclear safeguard system, nurtured during the Cold War and infused with rigorous accounting and command procedures, was utterly debased, the investigation’s early results show.

JOHNSON: Sorry boys and girls, but that is nonsense. You do not walk into an ammo/weapons bunker and sort thru a bunch a cruise missiles like a college freshman searching their laundry basket in the dark for a pair of matching socks.

-----Johnson, another former CIA (he bounced around the company for 4 long years), ex-spurt guvmint man, "prolific analyst", and current CEO/ co-founder of an international business-consulting firm – whose hobbies include writing easy reading prose for the simpleminded masses. Another sheep herder for the "sorry boys and girls." Johnson's blog No Quarter is an old military term which means "no mercy" – and he deserves none.

Johnson is also alleged classmate and co-worker of Valerie Plame – you remember, "The Outing"? - that alarming, earth shaking, tipping point, constitutional crisis inducing, crossroads of pointless phonyass distraction that was to bring down BushCo? Ooyah!

You would never sleep again if you knew a fraction of Big Daddy government's mistakes. Putting a few nukes on the wrong flight is "snafu." (Snafu: situation normal, all fucked up.) The US lost 11 nuclear bombs in "accidents" during the Cold War that were never recovered, and the Soviet Union supposedly lost 50. That's just the ones Big Daddy lets us know about.

Fact is, accidentally launching, firing, detonating, theft, misplaced, or lost nukes is common enough that the military has a term for it – "broken arrow".

JOHNSON: One main question remains unanswered? Why are such weapons being taken to Barksdale, Louisiana, which is the jump off base for Middle East ops?

Ooooo, aaaah, he is so jump off spyish. I've never seen so many spies "out" themselves as they have in the past 6 years. Damn near every hemorrhoidal analyst who ever trudged into Langley to push pencils is/was a self-promoted "former" ops spy, and jumping like fleas on a dog's butt - to write about it.