Wagging the Atomic Dawg

DEBKAfile - US giant bunker-buster bomb project rushed since Iran's Qom site discovered



From the DEBKAfile:

The Pentagon has brought forward to December 2009 the target-date for producing
the first 15-ton super bunker-buster bomb (GBU-57A/B) Massive Ordinance
Penetrator, which can reach a depth of 60.09 meters underground before
exploding. DEBKAfile's military sources report that top defense agencies and air
force units were also working against the clock to adapt the bay of a B2a
Stealth bomber for carrying and delivering the bomb.
The Pentagon has
ordered the number of bombs rolling off the production line increased from four
to ten - a rush job triggered in May by the discovery that Iran was hiding a
second uranium enrichment plant under a mountain near Qom - a discovery which
prompted this week's international outcry.
Congress has since quietly
inserted the necessary funding in the 2009 budget.
All this urgency
indicates that the Obama administration has been preparing military muscle to
back up the international condemnation of Iran's concealed nuclear bomb program,
its sanctions threat and his willingness to join the negotiations with Iran
opening on Oct. 1 in Geneva. Tehran may have to take into account a possible
one-time surgical strike against its underground enrichment facility as a
warning shot should its defiance continue. In particular, the world powers this
week demanded that Iran open up all its nuclear facilities and programs to full
and immediate international inspection. Failure to do so could bring forth
further US military action

Wow! Maybe,just maybe President Obama has grown a pair.I wouldn't count on it,but their just might be some hope that our CINC might want do something more than offer an apology for America.


Obama may want to threaten military action to gain some concessions from Iran or opt to do a limited surgical strike,(he will never go all the way and target all of Iran's nuclear capabilities),to keep Israel at bay.


Also,with sagging approval numbers and a war in Afghanistan that seems to be going bad,he just might want to wag the dog to provide a distraction.Don't discount that as a motive for using military force,remember Bill Clinton,he was an expert a wagging the dog.