Posted on 08/03/2009 5:15:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
Defense: As the failure of engagement with Iran grows more apparent, the administration that has talked very softly may be getting the mother of all sticks ready. Guess we need high-tech Cold War weapons after all.
Recently, and perhaps not coincidentally, Defense Department Comptroller Robert Hale asked for permission to shift $68 million in the Pentagon's slashed budget to accelerate our bunker buster bomb program by three years so at least four 30,000-pound bombs could be mounted on B-2 stealth bombers by July 2010.
Hale cited "an urgent operational need for the capability to strike hard and deeply buried targets in high-threat environments." He top U.S. commanders in Asia and the Middle East "recently identified the need to expedite" the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, program.
On July 26, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that "it is unacceptable for Iran to have nuclear weapons" and "we're not going to let that happen." The MOP is the perfect means to that end. Coincidence? We think not.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
You can have the greatest weapons on earth, the largest bunker busters that ever existed. However, if you don’t have a president willing to use them … their development was just a fun exercise. ;-)
A Look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
Bomb for peace?
pieces
Massive Ordnance Penetrator. Bring in the Spirits so the Iranian nuke plants can be MOPped from the face of the earth, negating or at least mitigating the nuke threat to Israel.
Zero and his administration is a classic example of the adage, writing a check their ass can’t cash. Okay, so, I mangled the adage.
Israeli Air Force purchases advanced ‘smart bombs’
Jerusalem Post | Aug 4, 2009 | YAAKOV KATZ
Posted on 08/03/2009 6:36:30 PM PDT by VRWCTexan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2307580/posts
Destroy one bunker, watch them build a deeper one. I suppose the key is just how long we can delay their nuke program, but I imagine our intelligence is never good enough to really answer that question.
Political power flows out of the barrel of a gun.
Why on earth would Obamadinejad do anything to stop his buds in Tehran?
?President Barack Obama says he believes supreme leader Ayatollah ali Khamenei has deep concerns about the civil unrest that has followed the hotly contested presidential election there.?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.