ABC Nooz' Martha Raddatz on evening nooz reporting on new "MOAB" type bomb.

[Stinky The Clown]

Raddatz is ABC's Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent



So she's yammering about this big-assed new bomb we might get to use in Iran. 15 tons. Ground penetration to get at "deep targets"

Oh Boy ...... let's blow shit up.

Bush and Cheney and McCain and Liberman and Bolton and Negroponte and Hayden and May and all the other neoconidiots are reported to be sporting huge erections.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. There is a psych war aspect to this

Nations like Iran who desperately want to go nuclear have buried their facilities deep enough so they think they will survive air attack. The strategy is that no one will put boots on the ground, and the attack will be only from the air. Whether true or not, reports like this force them to dig deeper taking more money and time. Iran in particular is *positive* that whatever the Great Satan has, the Little Satan has as well.

[FarCenter]

2. After years and years of covering the DoD and the Middle East, Martha is quite the enthusiast

For anything that the DoD wants to get into the media.

[Rick Myers]

3. I'm sure we have the right weapon already...

But we have refused Israel the use of them... That might change...

[sam sarrha]

4. have we given them a plane that can carry it.. ??

[ProgressiveProfessor]

10. They have C-130s

Parachute drags it out, when it acquires GPS it jettisons the chute and goes for the target. Not sure if there is some sort of GPS platform handoff for it or not.

BTW, MOAB is not a penetrator, its a daisy killer (surface effects)


http://www.metacafe.com/watch/139739/moab_bomb_test_video/

[petronius]

5. Wouldn't that make it a GMOAB?

:shrug:

[babylonsister]

6. She apparently shut Woodward down this a.m....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=6639538

[KoKo]

8. They were all laughing ...an "in the know joke" about Iran having more that two sites

...they were joking that their were many more all over Iran. I do wonder how they could be bombed...if they are "everywhere" all over Iran. :shrug: It was disconcerting to seem them laughing at their inside joke from their very own access to intelligence info...that we out here aren't aware of.

[Algorem]

7. sounds like nobody's gotten to her deep target in a while

[timeforpeace]

9. Why do you mention Bush et al when she's reporting the Obama Administration may use it?

[Stinky The Clown]

11. Why do you ask?