US President George Bush has requested an extra £22.5bn in emergency funds from the US Congress, including a single sentence requesting money to upgrade the B-2 "stealth" bomber.
The entire story is that the planes would be upgraded to drop the "Massive Ordnance Penetrator" -- a 30,000-pound bomb. It's six times as big as the US military's current "bunker busting" bombs. The bombs would be based at (that place again) Diego Garcia, where hangars are being specially upgraded.
Flight-testing of the weapon began at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., this September, and Bush wants his "MOP" funding by Christmas. Each week, Dick Cheney and Bush rachet up the rhetoric against Iran. Cheney said, on Sunday, that, "we will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon," and Bush recently warned that a a nuclear Iran could lead to "World War III."
Meanwhile, the US continues to be best buds with the nation whose nuclear scientists have opened the pandora box.
And the US rewards a country that refuses to join the NPT with a nuclear fuel agreement that frees up more nuclear material for weapons.
Madness!
Film to watch on this: "War and Peace" by Anand Patwardhan
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