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thisficklemob in liberalrage

that nuclear armed B-52

Sep 05, 2007 21:12

Did you hear about that B-52 "accidentally" carrying nukes from one base to another today? Yeah, I didn't pay it much mind, until I saw this commentary on TPM Cafe (via Digbysblog) and went, OH SHIT:

And how does someone watching a B-52 land identify the cruise missiles as nukes? It just does not make sense ( Read more... )

military, nuclear weapons, iran, president asshat

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bailunrui September 6 2007, 01:19:05 UTC

Oh. Shit. *is scared*

thisficklemob September 6 2007, 01:24:42 UTC

*clings*

You know, they've made footage from right after the Atomic Bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki into a documentary, White Light Black Rain. I really really don't want to see it. I have been to the Hiroshima Museum in Hiroshima.

But there are people I think really need to see it, starting with the Bushies, going through all the media people who called Obama stating he wouldn't nuke camps (camps) a gaffe, and ending with the "nuke the bastards" wingnuts.

As a very small silver lining, if this was a leak, at least that means there are military people out there still pushing away from the insanity...

bailunrui September 6 2007, 01:33:58 UTC

Some people are so blase about nuclear weapons. It blows my mind.

thisficklemob September 6 2007, 02:03:07 UTC

I think most of them just have no idea what they do. They didn't read Barefoot Gen as a kid like I did. And the rest of them are some combination of racists, nationalists, yeehaadists, and sociopaths, and they just don't care. Or have somehow convinced themselves such manmade hell can ever be "worth it."

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gigglestheblood September 6 2007, 01:27:52 UTC

Ha ha, no, the administration isn't that stupid and fucked up... oh wait, yes it is.

Crap.

thisficklemob September 6 2007, 02:00:25 UTC

Horrifying train of thought, isn't it.

I don't expect to wake up tomorrow and they'll have dropped the bomb on Iran, but... just the thought scares me more than any supposed terror plot I'm supposed to be afraid of.

asaresquares September 6 2007, 03:50:47 UTC

Oh. My. God.

thisficklemob September 6 2007, 04:39:07 UTC

Yeah.

I mean, I've known for years about their dreams of making smaller "tactical" nuclear weapons, their delusional fantasies about "ground penetrating" nuclear weapons, but knowing that they moved nukes around as a prelude to possibly using them is so much more concrete.

kimbari September 6 2007, 04:27:52 UTC

GODDAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!! /Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes

Seriously. Goddamn them all and they're gonna take US with them!

thisficklemob September 6 2007, 04:40:10 UTC

I'm really fucking tired of my country being the big villains.