C-5Ms over El Puerto

For the past two weeks giant C-5 military transport planes have been flying overhead and landing at the Rota Naval Station a few miles down the coast. They must be part of the military effort to "destroy" ISIS. The Rota base is a convenient trans-shipment location on the way to Iraq. We lived here from August 2002 to June 2003 and during the build-up to the US invasion of Iraq these planes were a common sight. Now, it appears there are 3 or 4 flights a day. I'd like to know what's in those planes. The cargo bay is almost 150 feet long, 13 feet high and 19 feet wide! That's a lot of missiles!

Recent developments have cemented the lunacy of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It appears that the ISIS leaders include a large contingent of Sadam Hussein's military people!! After 10 years of "nation building" the country has collapsed and the civil war continues. The Rand Corporation estimates that 20% of a country's population must die before a civil war exhausts the survivors will to fight. Iraq has a population of 25 million. That means we have a long way to go before this is over!

We ginned up reasons to push Saddam off his wall in 2003 and all the king's men and all the king's horses never could put Humpty Dumpty back together again. Sadly, a majority of Americans still believe he had something to do with 9/11 and he had weapons of mass destruction. Proof that if a message is repeated enough by corporate/government/media sources it begins to take on the aura of truth, even in this day and age.

Info about the C-5 airplane from the US Air Force:

http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/FactSheets/Display/tabid/224/Article/104492/c-5-abc-galaxy-c-5m-super-galaxy.aspx

The latest modifications to these 1970 vintage planes allow them to fly 4,800 miles with a cargo of 125,000 pounds....all the way from the US East Coast to the Middle East, without refueling.