President Bush is preparing for the failure of sanctions against Iran. I think he really means it when he says that Iran will not be allowed to produce nuclear weapons.
The US is secretly upgrading special stealth bomber hangars on the British island protectorate of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, according to military sources.
The improvement of the B1 Spirit jet infrastructure coincides with an “urgent operational need” request for £44m to fit racks to the long-range aircraft.
That would allow them to carry experimental 15-ton Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bombs designed to smash underground bunkers buried as much as 200ft beneath the surface through reinforced concrete.
One MOP – known as Big Blu – has already been tested successfully at the US Air Force proving ground at White Sands in New Mexico. Tenders have now gone out for a production model to be ready for use in the next nine months.
The “static tunnel lethality test” on March 14 completely destroyed a mock-up of the kind of underground facility used to house Iran’s nuclear centrifuge arrays at Natanz, about 150 miles from the capital, Tehran.
The lack of world condemnation of the Israeli raid on an nascent Syrian nuclear plant is probably heartening to those supporting the bombing of Natanz. But I don’t think that Bush cares one way or the other whether the world condemns him over taking out the Iranian nuclear capability.
We have been at war with Iran since 1979, although it is a war that has never been officially proclaimed. Iran funds the enemies of America. The Iranian-founded and -backed Hezbollah murdered 241 American soldiers in 1983. The Iranians have been killing American soldiers in Iraq for the past four years. The Iranians are smuggling arms to the Taliban in Afghanistan. It’s an undeclared war against America, just as Iran has been waging an undeclared proxy war against Israel.
Get ready for $120 a barrel oil sometime after the November elections. I don’t see W. backing down on this one.
I wonder if it’s even undeclared by Iran’s standards. I would guess that Iran has probably fulfilled whatever the proper Islamic formulas are for a declaration of war.
Actually, the cost of oil has not gone up. The Arab cartel has raised the price of oil as part of the war with the West.
Just a point of clarification – the article is off by a few orders of magnitude. The Massive Ordinance Pentitrator is not a 15 ton bomb. It’s a 15,000 ton bomb. See also http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/dshtw.htm.
This is equivalent to Little Boy, the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima, but without any nuclear material.
I predicted that these were being developed for use on Iran back when I first heard of them back in April.
Good to know the Herald can put 2 and 2 together, even if it only takes them six months to figure out how.
Scratch that. I guess I can’t divide by 2000. MOP is a 15T device.
The rest of my comment is still accurate, though.
Ahmadinejad has publicly stated that his intention is to personally bring about the appearance of the 12th Imam at the earliest possible opportunity by creating the conditions that the Quran has stated that must be in place for this to happen. These conditions would be met if Iran were in a state of war. This being said then the United States is trying to help him to bring about those conditions as soon as possible. The least Ahmadinejad could do is to send President Bush a card expressing his thanks for helping him out in this endeavor. Since war is what Ahmadinejad seeks then I think we should give it to him as soon as possible and in a manor which will satisfy the conditions for the appearance of the 12th Imam.
If it was up to me there would be a nuclear tipped cuise missile going down that well where the 12th Imam is supposed to be occulting himself.