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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Cause it’s so long!!
Hey Frankie...Go to Hollywood.
You would think that a Pope might have some awareness of history and events, but I guess I expect to much. MOAB was a name given in response to Saddam’s declaring that the upcoming conflict would be the “Mother of All Battles.” He got introduced to the Mother of All Bombs.
I guess when you feel that the West is the only group that can do wrong you have to rewrite history.
The official name of the bomb is Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB)—which he would also likely find objectionable because Moab was the domain of the evil King Eglon in the Book of Judges.
They were enough.
Like you know, Frankie?!?
I am a life long Catholic and what I say is “F*ck Francis. I can’t stand this guy! He is NOT my leader! Everything he says and does is contrary to my Catholic faith. He is an athiest in Catholic garb.
Pope Pussy the 1st.
He needs to read his communist manifesto and dream of altar boys instead of commenting on world events.
You would think a pope could tell the difference between good and evil, but to leftists it is always backwards.
Massive Ordnance Air Blast
He is a Manchurian Candidate.
‘Pope’ Francis is too attached to Islam.
And we care what the pope says because?
... he may already....
>”A mother gives life and this one gives death, and we call this device a mother. What is going on?”
What do you call the Mothers of islam kids that are taught to hate non-islams and knife or blow them up? “Faithful?”
You ignorant moron, I doubt you even know the chemistry behind a FAE device. To get an idea how it works, take an enclosed football stadium and release 3 million liters of acetylene and 7 million liters of oxygen and make a spark.
After that, figure out the mechanics of unleashing such a stochastic mixture in an unconfined area and get back to us.
Until then, beware of the Father of all Bombs.
Yeah, he ia pretty chummy with Obama, but they obviously have not come out their comi dominatrix closet.
Of all the things that a religious leader should be concerned with in today’s world...
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