Bush Budget Request Raises Fears Of Iran Strike, Increases Funding For ‘Massive’ ‘Bunker Buster’...

[bridgit]

'In light of the administration’s increasingly threatening rhetoric on Iran, CQ reports that members of Congress are worried by Bush’s recent budget proposal. In particular, they cite his request to equip B-2 “stealth” bombers with a new 30,000-pound bunker buster as a “sign of plans for an attack on Iran“:

Buried in the $196.4 billion supplemental war spending proposal that Bush submitted to Congress on Oct. 22 is a request for $88 million to modify B-2 bombers so they can drop a Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, a conventional bomb still in development that is the most powerful weapon designed to destroy targets deep underground.

A White House summary accompanying the supplemental spending proposal said the request for money to modify ­B-2s to carry the bombs came in response to “an urgent operational need from theater commanders.” <…>

Previous statements by the Defense Department and the program’s contractors, along with interviews with military experts, suggest the weapon is meant for the kind of hardened targets found chiefly in Iran.'

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/24/bush-budget-iran/

[bonito]

1. It looks like it's coming

I've been checking in with debkafile over the years today it's alarming.

[bridgit]

2. cheneybush & republicans are as addicted as crack addicts to this supplemental shit...

a little slip in here, a little in there, no one knows for sure cause they don't answer anything and voila!! WAR! :nuke:

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. Russia and China won't stand for this. bu$hco=idiots! nt

[bridgit]

6. there's the big picture right there, thank you for your post...

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. I don't what to say, except that bu$hco is insane!

:silly:

[bridgit]

8. E-yup, shit fucking bonkers and proud of it...

[movonne]

3. As the dems cheer them on...I'm so dishearten with my party..they

don't seem like the party of the past...I guess we are getting the new stream lined version...part repug, part moderate...

[bridgit]

4. there's much being suggested that they are privy to some scary info...

that flavors their thinking or they are black-mailable or whatever the hell, but some of this shit is crystal clear and without doubt...it would seem dem leadership needs to recall what public service & 'we the people' common good are all about imo

[Spinzonner]

9. o we really have to keep funding neocon sexual fetishes and fantasies ?

[bridgit]

10. time to end it!!

[bridgit]

11. a.m. kick...

:kick: