B-52 carried nuclear missiles over US by mistake

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Originally Posted by firstdown

Its funny how everytime the US goverment makes a mistake people just say that the way things go in goverment but then the next day the same people are calling for the goverment to run the nations health care. This has nothing to do with which party is in controll because they both make tons of mistakes and seem to screw up most of the stuff they become involved in.

Everyone has mental lapses. It's just that when you're job is to deal with NUCLEAR (or NUKULER) missiles on a daily basis, even the smallest lapse is a big deal. The only thing I don't like about the system is that it's generalized as "The US Gov't dicked this up." It should be General Smith, Colonel Johnson and Sgt Jackson dicked this up and they have all been reduced in rank... I don't understand why private citizens are responsible for their own actions but service members get to hide behind the red, white and blue shield. A little personal accountability would go a long way to fixing some of our problems.