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Saturday, February 11, 2012

Pentagon officials are trying to ensure that 20 upgraded 30,000-pound bunker buster bombs are battle ready, "possibly for use against Iran," Fox News reports. The Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb is the largest non-nuclear weapon in the Air Force arsenal, but Iran's underground uranium enrichment facility may be beyond its range. Air Force Chief General Norton Schwartz publicly dismissed suggestions that the upgrades are tied to tensions with Iran.

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Glass 'em.

That'll get their attention.

I do see a bit of irony in using conventional weapons to destroy well entrenched nuclear weapons facilities though.

I am a fan of irony.

Too late?

www.bbc.co.uk

Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, says "great" nuclear achievements will be announced in the next few days.

Typical of America.... arrives late to the party... then keeps hanging around even after the neighbors have called the cops. LOL

Well we made the damn things we may as well use them.

Tedly, lets find better targets... astroids and planet mining off world... bigger while letting the prolls be... they killemselves anyhow.

Mutual assured destruction may have a new member.

Tedly, zat, jpw, ... how deep is the earths crust in that area? Would a megaton that deep split a fault line clear through the silk road?

#6 | Posted by reitze
one can only hope.

Couldn't they just hit the same spot consecutively with three bombs or something?

lets find better targets... astroids and planet mining off world...

Well Reitze your hearts in the right place but I think mining in Iran would be more profitable. I say we drop 10 of those bad boys about 10 minutes apart in the exact same spot. Should bring all that oil to the surface, no drilling or wells needed. Cheap oil and no Iran nukes, seems like a win win to me.

"Should bring all that oil to the surface, no drilling or wells needed."

Please detail your plan to recover this oil from Iran.

"Should bring all that oil to the surface, no drilling or wells needed."

---Please detail your plan to recover this oil from Iran.---

"Come and listen to a story about a persian named Habib..."

Eat more Mexican food.

I want a health care system I can afford.. Fuck the pentagon and fuck the military. You wasted 10-12 TRILLION dollars in a war on credit and got us nowhere.

then keeps hanging around even after the neighbors have called the cops. LOL--#3 | Posted by Tosser

Silly foreigner...we are the cops. :)

Please detail your plan to recover this oil from Iran.

#10 | POSTED BY REDIAL

A Canadian pipeline?

We fielded the best-equipped, best-trained military in the world and sent them to Afghanistan and Iraq, found out they couldn’t fight their way out of a paper bag, and they had their asses handed to them on a platter when they left Iraq. Why give them more weapons they can’t use correctly?

Looks like "Hope and Change" means change wars and hope we win one.
Good thing President George W. Bush isn't in the White House - the libby tears would be flowing like a busted water main.
Now it's fine and dandy.

#16 - Score card.

Iraq - 1,500,00 dead
US -

Don't know why it wont publish the whole post?

Ah that's the problem.

Iraq - 1,500,00 dead
US - less than 5,000 dead

Afghanistan - 12,000
US - 1,770

Not only can they fight their way out of a paper bag I would say the ass handing was just about opposite what a mental midget like yourself spews out your own ass.

Now did they accomplish the goal? Nope. Soldiers fault? Nope. Presidents (2) and Pentagon's fault, Yes!

Lesson to learn...again, you can't fight and win a PC war, period. You strike with everything you got, take what you came for and leave to let any survivors rebuild and ponder why they were decimated, period.

Had aour asses handed to us on a platter, what a maroon.

What the Pentagon needed on 9/11/01 was a POTUS that didn't suck so bad at his job of protecting the nation.

images.publicradio.org

#6 | Posted by reitze

We could try it on California first.

RCADE needs to fix the headline: "IDF Wants Pentagon to want Better Bunker Busters".

Tedly-Iraq-less than 5000 Americans KIA but Iran gets the country with 0 KIA. That's what happens when you let a moron who doesn't know shi'ite from Sunni-ola play in the sand.

And 1.5 million civilians killed ain't exactly a measurement of victory. Otherwise, Germany won WW2.

#20 | POSTED BY REINHEITSGEBOT

Agreed but like must lib's you're crying over spilled milk again. Grow a pair and man up. Obama is no better than Bush, he's just giving the people the same thing Bush did, what they asked for.

Except a balanced budget.

And controlled govt spending.

Job's, and lets not forget we've been asking for more jobs.

Oh, Oh, cheap gas, we've been wanting that for 3 years now.

and...

"We fielded the best-equipped, best-trained military in the world and sent them to Afghanistan and Iraq, found out they couldn’t fight their way out of a paper bag, and they had their asses handed to them on a platter when they left Iraq."

No, you've missed the lesson. Our military can defeat any military in the world and they did in both Afghanistan and Iraq. What that military can't do and what no military can ever do is occupy and pacify a country if the citizens of that country decide to use terrorism to fight back against the occupiers. We should have learned that in Vietnam, many of us did, some of us needed additional lessons. I do hope you have learned it now, don't ever forget it.

"Obama is no better than Bush, he's just giving the people the same thing Bush did, what they asked for. "

The people demanded tax cuts for rich folks?
the people wanted to invade Iraq?
What are you smoking, can I have some too?

#22 | POSTED BY NORTHGUY3

Big difference between victory (accomplishing goal in this case) and having ones ass handed to them on a platter.

I understand your pain, thanks for being a lib though.

Obama is no better than Bush, he's just giving the people the same thing Bush did, what they asked for.

The Pentagon hasn't needed an extreme makeover on Obama's watch. The NYC skyline hasn't been altered drastically on Obama's watch. Obama didn't transform back-to-back budget surpluses into trillion dollar deficits. Obama didn't usher in the recession that disappeared 8.5 million jobs. Obama didn't start two wars and botch them beyond belief.etc...

It appears I ruffled some feathers.

#25 | POSTED BY DANNI

The peopled cried for revenge. Bush delivered, Obama continued, or have you forgotten Osama and aliwartass or what ever that "untried" American citizens name was.

Obama extended all those rich folk tax breaks.

And Rein thanks to Obama he took those back to back trillion dollar deficits and made them back to back to back and probably to back trillion dollar deficits.

Like I said same goals different parties.

"The peopled cried for revenge. Bush delivered"

Delivered in the wrong damned country! The neocons didn't deliver revenge, they took advantage of the situation and carried out PNAC. Gee, it only took a "Pearl Harborlike event" to justify it.

What are you smoking, can I have some too?

#25 | Posted by danni at 2012-02-11 07:19 PM | Reply | Flag:

DR's most durable post.

"And Rein thanks to Obama he took those back to back trillion dollar deficits and made them back to back to back and probably to back trillion dollar deficits."

It eventually took a debt of 1.25 x our GNP to drag us out of the Great Depression, why would you expect Obama to pull us out of the Bush depression without incurring some debt? The important thing though, is it is beginning to look like it's working.

Delivered in the wrong damned country! The neocons didn't deliver revenge, they took advantage of the situation and carried out PNAC. Gee, it only took a "Pearl Harborlike event" to justify it.
#29 | Posted by danni

THem people are all alike. They think alike and look alike. Besides don't forget the WMD that they *HID* while we were thumbing our asses getting there.

#29 | POSTED BY DANNI

At the time it didn't matter, America want revenge Bush and Obama delivered. We got what we asked for.

#31 | POSTED BY DANNI

Defend Obama all you want, he made those staggering deficits even worse. Your party cried for HCR, and bank bailouts, and auto bailouts. It is what it is. The American people asked and Bush and Obama delivered. Accept it. Different parties same goals.

And people in hell want ice water. Shit in one hand and wish in the other, see which fills up first.

Bunker Busters Motto- We plunge in deep before we blow our load.

Okay, this is just another Pentagon money siphon.

Why are these necessary? In fact, nukes and explosive munitions in general seem rather outdated and dangerous, not tactical.

If we can penetrate and visualize their operations, have the ability to induce a number of disruptive measures - why not capture and control? The alternative is wasteful, dangerous and ensures deaths.

#36: "If we can penetrate and visualize their operations, have the ability to induce a number of disruptive measures - why not capture and control? The alternative is wasteful, dangerous and ensures deaths."

Because 'capture and control' means boots on the ground -- better to destroy from a distance.

Defend Obama all you want, he made those staggering deficits even worse. Your party cried for HCR, and bank bailouts, and auto bailouts. It is what it is. The American people asked and Bush and Obama delivered. Accept it. Different parties same goals.

#33 | POSTED BY TEDLY

You are either stupid as a fucking rock or just a troll. The deficits were structured to happen regardless of who was in office. This is policy set in motion since the 80's. Welcome to the American Totalitarian dream.

Air Force Chief General Norton Schwartz publicly dismissed suggestions that the upgrades are tied to tensions with Iran.

lol

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