Item in War Request Stokes Fears of Iran Strike

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Source: CQ Today

Some Democrats are worried that President Bush’s funding request to enable B-2 “stealth” bombers to carry a new 30,000-pound “bunker buster” bomb is 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.” The summary provided no further details. The White House and the Air Force, in response to queries, did not provide additional clarification.

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, which Bush suspects of developing nuclear weapons capability, and North Korea, which already has tested a nuclear device.

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[lovuian]

1. Bush wants Congresses blessing

ConPlan 8022-2 (Contingency Plan 8022-2) Nuclear Option

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONPLAN_8022

According to the Washington Post, the United States Strategic Command contingency plan for dealing with "imminent" threats from countries such as North Korea or Iran is formally known as CONPLAN 8022-02. The plan was reportedly completed in November 2003, resulting in a preemptive and offensive strike capability. The main plan involves the preemptive use of tactical nuclear strikes (mini-nukes) on deep-ground rocket/bomb installations, computer viruses, and radar disruption technology.

[TwilightGardener]

2. Shouldn't this be classified stuff or something?

[seafan]

3. Podhoretz to Bush on bombing Iran: "You’re the only one with the guts to do it."

Feeding that line to an ignorant, arrogant sociopath with a messiah complex portends catastrophe for this world, unless he is stopped. The tools our Founders gave us, those of impeachment, conviction and removal from office will soon be rendered inoperable if Bush is allowed to remain in power for the next nearly 15 months.



Neocons Pushing Bush to Bomb Iran, October 1, 2007




"Bush will not leave office with Iran having acquired a nuclear weapon or having passed the point of no return," Podhoretz said.



Item in War Request Stokes Fears of Iran Strike, October 23, 2007

[bonito]

4. Check out

debkafile it's alarming, so many articles pointing in that direction.

[leftchick]

5. 'some democrats'

not hil apparently.