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Pope Francis angered by America's 'mother of all bombs' name
BBC News ^ | 6th May | BBC News

Posted on 05/06/2017 6:46:51 PM PDT by Ennis85

Pope Francis has criticised the naming of the US military's largest non-nuclear explosive ever used in combat as "the mother of all bombs".

"I was ashamed when I heard the name," the pontiff told an audience of students at the Vatican. "A mother gives life and this one gives death, and we call this device a mother. What is going on?" he asked.

Last month the US dropped such a bomb, which weighs 21,600lb (9,800kg), on Islamic State militants in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon said it was dropped from a US aircraft in Nangarhar province, targeting tunnel complex used by IS.

The explosive is officially called the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), but is widely known as "the mother of all bombs". It was first tested in 2003, but had not been deployed in combat before. The Pope's comments come ahead of his meeting with US President Donald Trump on 24 May.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; francis; moab; pope
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1 posted on 05/06/2017 6:46:51 PM PDT by Ennis85
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Snowflake **POPE**..?!?

I thought I’d heard it all.

I THOUGHT.


2 posted on 05/06/2017 6:48:21 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Ennis85
Miss him more all the time...


3 posted on 05/06/2017 6:48:55 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Ennis85

Call it Bomacita.


4 posted on 05/06/2017 6:48:55 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Deportation mayhem is just birthing pains for a new America.)
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To: Ennis85

Is this a parody article?


5 posted on 05/06/2017 6:49:28 PM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: Ennis85

He is channeling Sheila Jackson Lee.


6 posted on 05/06/2017 6:49:55 PM PDT by jennychase
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To: Ennis85

My Pope.

7 posted on 05/06/2017 6:50:11 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: Incorrigible

lol, no. Francis’ real life will outparody any writer.


8 posted on 05/06/2017 6:50:50 PM PDT by TTFX
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To: Ennis85

The moron apparently wasn’t reading papers when Saddam promised the “mother of all battles”. The bomb’s nickname was a parody of that, a joke.


9 posted on 05/06/2017 6:51:09 PM PDT by Defiant (The media is the colostomy bag where truth goes after democrats digest it.)
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The Pope may learn that America is not the same country it once was, 50 years of pulpit silence has served the secularist well.
10 posted on 05/06/2017 6:51:11 PM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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The more I hear of this guy, the more glad I am to not be catholic. What an idiot.


11 posted on 05/06/2017 6:51:16 PM PDT by cyclotic
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To: Ennis85

Obama was an enemy in the gates.

This pope is an enemy outside the gates.

Every other day he tops his previous dumbest statement with a new one.


12 posted on 05/06/2017 6:51:27 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Ennis85

lighten up, francis.


13 posted on 05/06/2017 6:51:35 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: Ennis85
Miss me, yet?


14 posted on 05/06/2017 6:53:00 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Defiant

The Roman Missal calls the Easter Vigil “the mother of all liturgies.”


15 posted on 05/06/2017 6:53:16 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: Ennis85

He seems to be a combination of Marxist, Muslim and Moron.


16 posted on 05/06/2017 6:53:29 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: cyclotic

Were you disgusted to be American under obama.

Are your allegiances and faiths so weak that you fall apart in the presence of one bad leader.

I pity you and will say a Holy Rosary for you.


17 posted on 05/06/2017 6:55:03 PM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Ennis85

Has anyone ever seen Francis and Ruprecht in the same room?

18 posted on 05/06/2017 6:55:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Ennis85

>”the mother of all bombs”.

Lighten up Francis.


19 posted on 05/06/2017 6:55:13 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Ennis85

Francis really is a twit. The next pope is probably going to find the underside of everything covered in boogers and chewing gum. He has to be some sort of test from The Divine.


20 posted on 05/06/2017 6:55:26 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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