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Does Bush Budget Suggest Attack on Iran?
Lets see, Bush has made an emergency request for an emergency war funding bill in the amount of $190 Billion. Some are speculating that line items contained in this bill may suggest of a forthcoming strike on Iran. Included in this bill is a request for $88 million to retrofit B-2 Stealth bombers to enable them to carry a new 30,000 pound “bunker buster” bomb called the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) which has the capacity to destroy deep underground targets. Northrop Grumman the prime contractor for the B-2 Stealth Bomber says the B-2 would be able to attack and destroy an expanded set of hardened and deeply buried military targets. Gerard Baker, U.S. editor of the Times of London, says that the U.S. now believes that it “thinks it has the intelligence and the military capacity to undermine the Iranian threat seriously.”
The tone of an increasingly recalcitrant and self-confident Iranian regime has taken a significant turn in the past few weeks Baker feels that the debate in Washington is focusing on what to do.
Some say that this retrofit of the B-2 could in fact be for the purpose of attacking bin Laden in his Mountain Caves, but Baker correctly claims that the U.S. own the skies in Afghanistan and Iraq for that matter and would not need to deploy the B-2 for this task. I agree with Baker on this in that Conventional aircraft could more easily be deployed for this task if there was no threat of enemy air defenses.
According to Baker “The only real question about the next phase in this war is whether an escalation by the U.S., in a pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, would further American – and Western – objectives, or impede them. The evidence is increasingly suggesting that the costs of not acting are equal to or larger than the costs of acting.”
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You’ve gotta be kidding me?
M2………..No kidding here…….steve
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