Today Show tours nuke (missle) facilty

Anybody catch that this morning?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24482119#24482119

from GE, "we bring good things to death". What are they now, the #2 benefactor of increased military action?

this is a crime, and the media should be called out on it.

there was no LEGITIMATE reason for them to be broadcasting from there EXCEPT to "soften us up" for nuking Iran.

Whatever happened with those Nukes over America? The B-52 loaded with Nuclear Warheads.
I've never heard a final explanation on that.

The Today Show piece screamed propoganda.

Fascinating!

-Hoot

And it looked like so much "nuclear weapons are your friend" bullshit that my breakfast threatened to make an encore appearance. But Meredith Viera was doing the voiceover with a big, fat smile in her voice, so how could anyone object? Let's all contemplate happy thoughts about dropping nuclear bombs on defenseless civilians who don't know it's coming, can't fight back, and can't get away. Land of the Free and Home of the Brave my sweet Aunt Fanny.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7391537.stm

Russian tanks and intercontinental missile launchers have been paraded through Moscow for the first time since the collapse of the USSR.

The Russian leadership has decided to revive the Communist-era custom of featuring military hardware in the annual Victory Day parade.

New President Dmitry Medvedev said the army and navy were getting stronger.

Observers say the point of the parade was to demonstrate that Russia is a serious military force.

The Kremlin insists the event, which marks the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, is not meant to threaten anyone.

President Medvedev, who was inaugurated on Wednesday, has been leading the parade on Red Square.


Cheering crowds lined the streets everywhere with their mobile phones and digital cameras out to record every passing ICBM, tank and jet
Justin N, Moscow

Readers' views on parade

"Our army and navy are gaining strength", he said.

"And in their power today lies the historical glory of Russian arms, therein lies the traditions of victory and the high spirit of our army."

His predecessor, Vladimir Putin, said earlier that the display of heavy weapons in this year's Victory Day parade was "not sabre-rattling", but "a demonstration of our growing defence capability".

Show of military might

Marching bands and 8,000 troops goose-stepped across Red Square, and heavy weapons such as Topol-M ballistic missiles and T-90 tanks were on display.

The cobbles of Red Square had been reinforced, in advance of the parade, to cope with the tanks and other heavy weaponry.

Television stations showed soldiers marching in cities around the country, as well as veterans with chests laden with medals.

Russia has made other recent shows of its military capability, including the resumption of long-range flights by the Tupolev Tu-95 bomber, an icon of the old Soviet arsenal.

But analysts say that despite these signs of military might, there is evidence of the Russian army and navy suffering from lack of money, a shortage of training, and low morale.

The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Moscow says conscripts in the army can be subjected to shocking brutality.