“The Department has an Urgent Operational Need (UON) for the capability to strike hard and deeply buried targets in high threat environments. The MOP is the weapon of choice to meet the requirements of the UON.” It further states that the request is endorsed by Pacific Command (which has responsibility over North Korea) and Central Command (which has responsibility over Iran).
link to official USAF request to speed up procurement of special bunker buster bomb
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No way.
Barry will never bomb his buddy Mahmoud.
No, the US Air Force is preparing to bomb Iran. That’s what our military does, prepare so that they are ready when called upon. This does not mean in any way that the civilian authorities have made any decision beyond allowing the Air Force to get ready for the possibility.
Where is Curtis LeMay when you need him?
@ Old Trooper
I know. How great would it be to have General’s LeMay, MacArthur and Patton right now.
Hey, Muslims spend their LIVES killing other Muslims whenever it suits a particular agenda, so the bombing of Iran by our Hussein would be far from remarkable. And as Hussein’s poll numbers–and therefore “healthcare” plan–are in the tank, doing something of which the American people actually APPROVE might be a darned good idea. But before playing such a card, Fearless Leader will need a “fallguy”–someone upon whom blame for failure/disaster can easily and quickly be heaped. (The MSM can be trusted to take care of anything which makes no sense, such as the selection process itself.)
I wish I was more optimistic and not so judgmental toward the Oval Office Filler, but I think this is hitting the MSM to make him sound like a “good military leader” who is preparing to keep our country safe and free, but come down to it, I think he is negotiating under the table with Iran in particular, and the Muslim world in general, promising what he ought not promise and has no right to promise, either by office or by virtue, putting Israel as a State and even our economy on the chopping block. When the stakes are high enough and Mahmoud is satisfied, then Obama will issue a command that is rigged to make him look like a successful Commander-in-Chief. Iran is throwing fertilizer on Obama, and he expects to come up smelling like a rose. Gullible and narcissistic…
More likely that Barry is planning to use these bunker busters on Fox News headquarters…or maybe Israel.
I haven’t seen anything indicating that Soros and Huffington would approve any military action. That’s where Barry looks for guidance. Maybe this news release (leak, whatever) is designed as a bluff to influence whatever negotiations are going on with the Arab OPEC countries to keep the dollar standard for oil. They aren’t stupid either. They know how weak he really is.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
@Aqua:
We’ve got plenty of good commanders in the Armed Forces, it’s their boss that leaves so much to be desired. The thing is that we might have missed a perfect political opportunity to stave off war if the President had made even a small attempt to show support for Iranian protesters or demonstrated his much vaunted world-wide popularity by rallying international support for free, fair elections in Iran. The truth is that he doesn’t have the backbone or the skills to do either and the mess will be left for the military to clean up.
@Old Trooper:
I know where LeMay is – in his grave – spinning fast enough to arm the warhead.
@ tfhr
I know there are some out there, just not enough. I joined the Air Force in 1979, I left in 1990 because of George H.W.
When I went through basic, our instructor’s weren’t alowed to hit us. But they could sure make life hell on you in other ways. While I was still in, they implemented “stress passes” for those in basic. If the instructor was yelling at you and about to make you cry, you could pull a stress pass and they would have to leave you alone for a while. I think they got 2 a day or some crap. That was bad enough for the Air Force, but I heard the Marines implemented a similiar program as well. Can you imagine Patton allowing the Army to implement stress passes?
I say bomb ’em with mesquite seeds. They’ll be so busy the next thousand years trying to dig up the floral equivilent of herpes they won’t have time to think about Israel, enriched uranium, the Great Satan USA or anything else that might trouble their little knobby heads
Good one Davey… I agree!! Mesquite bombs! brilliant.. ha ha ha.
ABC is way overstepping the information. There are quite a few countries with deeply buried military bunkers that we may need to take out some day. Since the Israeli attack on Osirak, the first and second gulf wars every well funded military took notice. Smart bombs means nothing on or near ground level is safe from shock and awe. Or a single hit. I reference “Global Strike” the kinetic non explosive warheads requested for nuclear submarine missile boats. Even smallish countries have command bunkers. Venezuela. Or China, North Korea, Russia, of course Iran but its years to put this bomb on a B-2. Now they launch it from a cargo plane. Not exactly stealthy… We can not count on fighting tenth century tech all the time!
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/4203874.html
Ahhh, but will mesquite grow in their climate? Just curious.
Operational Security and Unicorns… Myths…
Heck, mesquite grows all over Texas , thoughout the Southwest and Mexico as well. We’ve got spots as arid as Iran and they’ve been trying to eradicate it for decades. The best thing that ever happened is when they discovered it made a dandy alternative to hickory for smoking Bar B Que and they’ve still got too much of it.
Why not just bomb the place with peyote cactus seeds? Then, instead of mesquite, they’ll get mescaline. They’ll be so dopey they won’t care about atomic bombs. Just a thought.
McArthur, Patton, LeMay, Puller, Halsey and many more didn’t lose much sleep over being politically correct; but, the enemy was scared of them and what they were going to do next; thanks to the Liberals we can’t have these killers of the enemy leading our armed forces and our enemies are so grateful.
Our leaders must conduct their missions with a Liberal garrote around their necks, while they fight an enemy with no integrity or honor.
Well said, Steve.
@steve:
Those guys worked for FDR – despite his record on social and economic “justice” – he had a massive lack of concern for political correctness and no apparent tolerance for vacillation when it came to winning a war. Seems like a common thread with Lincoln, now that I think of it.
Hey, what happened to all those fawning, misty-eyed MSM comparisons of Obama, Lincoln and FDR? I haven’t seen any lately, have you?
I guess we’ll know if Obama still buys it when he starts loading GITMO with Arabs, including Americans of Arab descent, after removing them from their homes in the US and if he suspends the writ of habeus corpus.
One other comment on the faded-away generals front: I hear that some Dems are calling McChrystal, “MacArthur”. Clueless. At least they can’t call him McClellan but if they did, I would enjoy the irony.