Thread: Вush Budget Plans for Iran Attack

Bush Budget Plans for Iran Attack

An item buried in President Bush’s latest request for $190 billion in emergency war funding offers telling evidence that the U.S. could be preparing an attack on Iran.

The Defense Department has asked for $88 million to retrofit B-2 Stealth bombers so they can carry a 30,000-pound “bunker buster” bomb called the massive ordnance penetrator (MOP), which has the capacity to destroy deep underground targets.

The Administration says the request is in response to an “urgent operational need from theater commanders.”

Some observers might conclude that the Pentagon is seeking weaponry to strike Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida in their caves in Afghanistan.

But as Gerard Baker, U.S. editor of the Times of London, points out in the New York Post, that would not require Stealth bombers.

“The Americans own the skies over Afghanistan and Iraq and could, if they wished, blanket the two countries with all manner of bombardment from a few thousand feet in broad daylight,” Baker notes.

Instead, the more likely targets are the subterranean nuclear enrichment facilities in Iran, according to Baker, who writes:

“The debate in Washington about what to do with the increasingly recalcitrant and self-confident Iranian regime has taken a significant turn in the past few weeks. And the decision to upgrade the bombing capacity of the military is perhaps the most powerful indication yet that the debate is reaching a climax.”

Where is the part of the article that discusses this being buried in the bill?

and Iran has a million suicide bombers ready to go.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday millions of Iranians would be ready to sacrifice themselves fighting the country's enemies, in an apparent reference to the United States and its allies.

Ahmadinejad's statement came a day after an Iranian commander said the Basij religious militia and their spirit of martyrdom could disrupt strategic Gulf oil shipping routes with a small operation.

They both spoke at annual ceremonies marking the death of a 13-year-old Basij, Mohammad Hosseini Fahmideh, who died trying to destroy an Iraqi tank in the 1980s war with Iran's neighbor.

"Enemies of the Iranian nation must know that by the passing away of martyrs like Fahmideh, the hands of the Iranian people are not empty," Ahmadinejad told a crowd of student Basij members in Tehran, the official IRNA news agency reported.

"And today millions of Fahmidehs are standing fresher and more prepared," he said.

Iran is locked in a standoff with the West which accuses Tehran of seeking atomic bombs. The United States has said it would not rule out force if diplomacy fails to end the row.

Originally Posted by sectionOne

and Iran has a million suicide bombers ready to go.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday millions of Iranians would be ready to sacrifice themselves fighting the country's enemies, in an apparent reference to the United States and its allies.

Ahmadinejad's statement came a day after an Iranian commander said the Basij religious militia and their spirit of martyrdom could disrupt strategic Gulf oil shipping routes with a small operation.

They both spoke at annual ceremonies marking the death of a 13-year-old Basij, Mohammad Hosseini Fahmideh, who died trying to destroy an Iraqi tank in the 1980s war with Iran's neighbor.

"Enemies of the Iranian nation must know that by the passing away of martyrs like Fahmideh, the hands of the Iranian people are not empty," Ahmadinejad told a crowd of student Basij members in Tehran, the official IRNA news agency reported.

"And today millions of Fahmidehs are standing fresher and more prepared," he said.

Iran is locked in a standoff with the West which accuses Tehran of seeking atomic bombs. The United States has said it would not rule out force if diplomacy fails to end the row.

C'mon guys, you are missing a very real opportunity to destroy civilization as we know it. The Global Warming crowd should love this. The US attacks Iran (who is trying to harness that most evil of energies, nuclear. Win for the environmentalists. Then Iran disrupts the oil trade, crippling the world's oil economy, destroying western markets, and putting everyone out of work. We'll reduce the number of people driving cars by like 50%! win for the environmentalists. World War will break out and 10% of the worlds population will die. You see, decrease in population, WIN for the environmentalists.

A war with Iran appears to have some real up sides for an Al Gore Presidency.

Originally Posted by Burning Giraffe

C'mon guys, you are missing a very real opportunity to destroy civilization as we know it. The Global Warming crowd should love this. The US attacks Iran (who is trying to harness that most evil of energies, nuclear. Win for the environmentalists. Then Iran disrupts the oil trade, crippling the world's oil economy, destroying western markets, and putting everyone out of work. We'll reduce the number of people driving cars by like 50%! win for the environmentalists. World War will break out and 10% of the worlds population will die. You see, decrease in population, WIN for the environmentalists.

A war with Iran appears to have some real up sides for an Al Gore Presidency.

hehehh. nice to know the environmentalists have an agenda so great.

but yes, when it comes down to it... governments deal with planned loss of population in various ways. some choose birth control and free will like the West, others choose to mow down villages with machine guns like in Sudan, while others like Iran sign up people to blow themselves to smitherines by the millions.
civilization hasn't really grown in some places of the world yet.

Great, Ahmejinedad and Bush, two sociopaths waving war around
like prosthetic penises.

Originally Posted by bla bla

Great, Ahmejinedad and Bush, two sociopaths waving war around
like prosthetic penuses.

did you mean penis?
Amadmaninjihad is war offensive.
Bush is war defensive.
different penises.

Originally Posted by sectionOne

did you mean penis?
Amadmaninjihad is war offensive.
Bush is war defensive.
different penises.

Yea, penis.

Thanks.

Bush is about as "defensive" as Hitler. Saudi Arabia had more to do with
911 than Saddam.

Originally Posted by bla bla

Yea, penis.

Thanks.

Bush is about as "defensive" as Hitler. Saudi Arabia had more to do with
911 than Saddam.

Saudi and Saddam are the same entity.
I like it when you say penis.

no Bush isn't Hitler, he has no conquest in mind. however, many documents from the Middle East show intent to dominate the globe and convert it to Islam.

Originally Posted by sectionOne

Saudi and Saddam are the same entity.

Explain...