Analysis: Are Air Force firings about more than nuclear weapons?

[unhappycamper]

Analysis: Are Air Force firings about more than nuclear weapons?
By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Sunday, June 8, 2008

ARLINGTON, Va. — Defense Secretary Robert Gates forced the resignations of the Air Force secretary and its top general for reasons much deeper than nuclear accountability, ones that reflected his increasing displeasure with the direction the two were taking the service, according to reported comments from one military analyst and a senior military official.

Gates said his decision to demand the resignations Thursday of Air Force Secretary Michael W. Wynne and Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley was based entirely on a classified Pentagon finding that cited what he called "a chain of failures" in the Air Force’s safeguarding of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

The decision marked the first time any secretary of defense had fired both the service secretary and top officer of any branch of the military at the same time.

"The focus of the Air Force leadership has drifted with respect to perhaps its most sensitive mission," Gates told reporters.

A senior Air Force official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not an official spokesman, said because of the finding officers at major Air Force commands and staff headquarters had for months expected the quick departure of one of the two top leaders.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=55395

[TheDebbieDee]

1. Maybe these guys deliberately arranged for these nukes

to be misdirected so Cheney couldn't start WWIII with Iran.

And maybe they allowed the information to be leaked to our MSM so somebody/anybody would start paying more attention to what weapons the military is moving where.

[jaksavage]

2. I agree

There are numerous reasons which could be behind the resignations.
Won't attack Iran is high on my list.
But Cheney doesn't like it when you get in the way of his nuke plans. ie V Plame

I just don't trust the story from within.

[Sinistrous]

3. I agree. I too suspect that reluctance or refusal to attack Iran was the

major cause of these firings. The other items are just window dressing.