{"id":3852,"date":"2007-09-06T11:33:17","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T18:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/06\/is-bush-staging-nukes-for-iran\/"},"modified":"2007-09-06T15:43:57","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T22:43:57","slug":"is-bush-staging-nukes-for-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/06\/is-bush-staging-nukes-for-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Bush Staging Nukes for Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"

That is the question Larry Johnson asks over at TPMCafe<\/a>. Johnson is a former counter-terrorism official <\/a>with the CIA and the State Department.<\/p>\n

Johnson questions the official story about the nukes being “mistakenly” flown over the US<\/a>. A retired B-52 pilot reminds him that the only times you put weapons on a plane is when they are on alert or if you are tasked to move the weapons to a specific site. Barksdale AFB <\/a>is being used as a jumping off point for Mideast operations.<\/p>\n

Johnson is “certain 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.” Johnson asks: “Why would we want to preposition nuclear weapons at a base conducting Middle East operations?” Johnson’s pilot friend believes that “someone on the inside obviously leaked the info that the planes were carrying nukes. A B-52 landing at Barksdale is a non-event. A B-52 landing with nukes. That is something else.”<\/p>\n

Johnson wonders: “Did someone at Barksdale try to indirectly warn the American people that the Bush Administration is staging nukes for Iran?”<\/p>\n

I certainly hope that is the case. We need responsible officers that are unwilling to let our leaders get away with dragging us closer to war.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/strong>: The Military Times newspapers<\/a>, who originally broke the story leaked by unnamed military officers, reports that the squadron commander has been relieved of duty following investigation<\/a>. The papers also reported that there were six, rather than five, nuclear weapons that were transported across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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