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 Heads Roll at Air ForcePosted on Jun 5, 2008
Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday axed two top Air Force honchos, Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley and Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne, in a bid to do some damage control in the wake of the alarming incident last August in which nuclear warheads were mistakenly flown from North Dakota to Louisiana and another incident in which Air Force electrical fuses for ballistic missile warheads were shipped to Taiwan.
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By PatrickHenry, June 6 at 1:28 pm #
Good, the U.S has too many of its citizens in the military and way too many officers.
We need petrochemical engineers, green technology technicians, mag-lev rail installers, solar and wind repairmen.
Americans posess more personal firearms than most nations militaries, I don’t fear a Chinese or Russian invasion any time soon but I do fear our constitution shredding, ever expanding zionist controlled government backed by layers of police and 2 million of my countrymen in uniform.
Report thisBy fkgaza, June 6 at 8:49 am #
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General George Marshall of WW2 fame insisted that officers that were found less than outstanding were removed immediately. To do otherwise was to harm the Nation. He also said that to relieve a man was less a judgment on the man THAN ON THE COMMANDER who appointed him. Gates should take the blame and not be dead set on destroying others for mistakes his organization has made in judgement.
Report thisBy troublesum, June 6 at 3:34 am #
How stupid do they think we are? This had to do with the debate within the administration about bombing Iran not with the kind of mistakes that probably happen 30 times a week.
Report thisBy Arabian Thoroughbred, June 5 at 9:38 pm #
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At the face of it, it looks like punishing two guys for mistakes made that did not cause any deaths. However, it’s more likely related to power struggle within an entity responsible for thousands of deaths, destruction, and bankrupting the national treasury.
If it was about responsibility and punishment for failing to carry this responsibility, the first that was supposed to be punished is the so-called Commander-in-Chief who has so much innocent blood on his hands.
So, my feeling is that peace in this country and the world will not come about until and unless this entity of war-mongering is totally dismantled. The men of the Air Force, in my opinion, are a bunch of coward murderers who cannot look their victims in the eyes, so they kill them from great distance while playing their macho game. That’s what one of them did in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and others continue to do in Iraq.
Report thisBy 911truthdotorg, June 5 at 9:07 pm #
The Air Force Academy, Air Force and the Pentagon are being infiltrated with ultra-right wing super Evangelical “Christians” who can’t wait for the Rapture to happen.
My guess is these two were non-conformists and will be replaced with religious freaks - aka, Robots, to be controlled.
This country is pretty much screwed.
Report thisBy tres, June 5 at 8:43 pm #
maybe because they didn’t want to drop bombs on Iran?
those are just excuses. worse stuffs happen all the time.
Report thisBy Blongmar, June 5 at 6:09 pm #
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It is only the tip of the iceberg...imagine how much stuff goes on underneath...careerism
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