A woman told me that her husband was guarding nuclear weapons

[madison2000]

in a warehouse in Iraq. I was just chatting with her during a helpdesk phone call... she said her last day at the company would be Friday, since she was moving to NC... her husband is a marine stationed in Iraq... So naturally I asked "what exactly does he do in Iraq"? And she said he guards a warehouse that has nuclear weapons in it(!) I kept working on her machine and just let it go...

Its actually kind of funny now that I think about it :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[CanuckAmok]

1. Maybe the're US nukes earmarked for Syria?

You should have told her that you're a fromer Marine, and that "Guarding a Warehouse with Nukes", is actually Corps jargon for "stuffing twenty-dollar bills in strippers' g-strings".

[madison2000]

4. I couldn't tell you if she was naive or stupid or telling me the truth

She said it so matter-of-factly.
Did her hubby find Saddam's WMD's and keep it a secret?!

[trotsky]

2. Yeah, ours.

It's obvious we've already shipped in a bunch of ours so we can launch them into Syria or Iran or wherever the neocons want to strike next.

[xmas74]

3. And you posted that?

Man, she is so busted. You're not supposed to tell shit like that if that is your spouses job. Someone will be having a talk w/ her soon!

[madison2000]

6. Maybe he's just messing with her

or she misunderstood- who knows?

[xmas74]

7. I live next to a base and I work w/ many military wives.

She is so busted! It's really kinda funny.

[LynnTheDem]

10. She's not busted because it's not true, lol! Iraq has never had nukes.

Never.

And they still don't have any.

And he isn't guarding any warehouse full of nuclear weapons and he isn't even guarding the civilian-use nuclear facilities because it isn't marines doing that and there are no marines even in the vicinity.

Wonder what he's really doing. And with whom. :D

[xmas74]

12. There you go!

[mhr]

5. Since We Do Not Have Enough Troops - The Job Will Be Done

By alternate means.

If so, Bush really will be unleashing the hounds of hell!

[LynnTheDem]

8. "And when he's home does he often tell her he's working late?" asks my

US Military NBC (nuclear-bio-chemical) weapons inspector husband. Coz he was one of "the most bored SOBs in the country" searching for the non-existant "WMD" in Iraq for over a year.

Poor woman. How embarassing to be one of these:
http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Pres_Election_04/html/new_10_21_04.html

[LeftyMom]

9. More than likely he's trying to make himself sound important

When he gets out he'll probably promote himself to special forces, especially after a few drinks.

[LynnTheDem]

11. Probably. He sure as hell ain't guarding nukes that Iraq has never had.

Hope she never finds that out. But if she doesn't know it by now, after the billion reports & news articles and bush & cheney publicly admitting to it, then she probably never will find out, lol!

Imagine being that deeply ignorant. :scared:

[LeftyMom]

14. Tinfoil headgear time: I've had a thought

It's possible they (note the nebulous they, important factor in any theory pulled directly from one's ***) are telling soldiers guarding more conventional sites (weapons dumps, warehouses, gov't buildings) that they're guarding WMD in order to start rumors back home.

They* know secrets don't tend to stay hidden, especially with enlisted personnel. This is probably even more of an issue now that solddiers are communicating with home regularly via phone or email.

I still think BSing to make himself seem important and impress his wife is the more likely option, though.

*the white house, the pentagon, the BFEE, the cigarette smoking man, whoever...

[LynnTheDem]

16. I only say no on this one because I know which units are there.

And they know there's no nukes & never have been any.

But otherwise, I can tell you they've done similiar things in the past. Such as using the troops as guinea pigs in bombing tests to see how close humans could be to the bomb site...and survive. That isn't what they'd told the troops before the tests, of course. Afterwards there wasn't any need to tell them anything, but hey, they military had their answer; "further away than that". So it's not really tinfoil hat-ish at all; just not the case in this case. :)

And just to be totally fair, in fact bush & Cartel never did say Iraq ever had any; they said Iraq had come closer to acquiring nukes than they'd thought, back in 1990, and was still trying to acquire nukes in 2003, but even they didn't try saying Iraq had ever actually had any.

*I hate being fair to the bastards, they don't deserve it.*

[madison2000]

13. It sounds a lot more impressive to say

"My husband is a marine, and he is guarding a warehouse full of nuclear weapons in Iraq"

than

"My husband is a marine, and he is guarding a warehouse in Iraq" !

[rug]

15. Hurry, tell Colin Powell!