Already faced with growing threats that either the United States or Israel will attack, officials say Iran will face a new threat next week when President Obama unveils plans to sell thousands of “bunker buster” bombs to the United Arab Emirates.
The sale would include some 4,900 “joint direct attack munitions” as well as a number of other weapons systems. The size of the deal in dollar figures has not yet been unveiled but is believed to be significant.
The Obama Administration has dramatically increased the amount of weapons it sells to the gulf nations, nominally in an effort to “increase pressure on Iran,” but also as part of his promise to increase US weapons exports going forward.
Which makes a lot more sense, since no one seriously believes any number of bunker buster weapons is going to induce the tiny United Arab Emirates to attack its much larger neighbor across the Gulf, despite tensions between the two nations.
Someone's been busy putting together a coalition of the willing. No, make that a coalition of the eager.
Aw, what the hell, give Barry another peace prize.
Of course this deal is not to make the Emirate Sheikhs kindome stronger. It's to suck the rest of their oil money. These Emirate are not fit to fight. In fact they are trained to flee when enemy attacks like when Saddam's army invaded Kuwait. Kuwaitis were the first to flee leaving their country to foreigners to loot until Great Uncle Sam brought them back. No wonder they want to give membership in the Gulf region to Jordan & Moroccow to use their army to fight their war. AS it's in the Prophecy the war between Iran and the west will start soon. Of course we are talking about WWIII. Let's hope SATAN will lose.
More probably, these stockpiles will be ready for the US to use or to be transferred to Israel once they run out of the stuff.
At least a couple posters get it; that they will store them for use by the US. I never forgot the coversation I had with a Sergeant from our Army who had been training Saudi troops. When I asked him how good the Saudi troops were, his reply was, "If their Sergeant gets hit, they'll all run like rabbits". The Cheney/Bush WH transferred 100's of bunkerbuster bombs to the Israelis before they left office. General Peter Pace threatened to resign if the Bush administration didn't drop the option of using nuclear bunker buster bombs against Iran. They would not support him in an additional term as head of the Joint Chiefs.
Wasn't it Israel who just recently sought these things? Is the UAE to secretly store them for their use? Curiouser and curiouser.
For whatever it's worth, Ha'aretz is reporting right now that Bahrain just unfolded an Iranian terror plot against them. Grasp the tragic irony in that. Bahrain unfolding Iranian "terror" plots against them when they have to call on Saudi Arabia to put down their own civilian population. This whole thing is getting more and more bizarre by the day.
Not so Bizarre when you consider the Bahrain goverenment is Sunni the same as Suadi Arabia and the majority of the people in Bahrain are shitts the same as Iran . If Suadi Arabia or the UAE attack Iran most of their pilots are Israeli pilots anyway . These countries like Gaddaffi like to have a lot of foreigners help protecct their dictatorships . Saudi Arabia would not have wanted Osoma bin Laden in the cockpit of their bombers . In a open free election in almost all muslim countries Osoma bin Laden would be one of the first choices of the most religious muslims . Most of the worlds western goverenments do not want to believe what I just said here , they plan on uniting with Islam and getting the oil and wealth out of the muslim lands by stealth and friendship . A Sunni attack on Iran would really seem right now to be a blessing for both United States and Israel . None the less a attack on Shitt Iran is not the prefered first target of most of the muslim world , if the choice was left up to the people ?
Left up to the people, eh? Kleptocrats have proven time and again that the people are only called upon to rubber stamp what they'd already planned to do. To go against their so-called wisdom and to demand a stop to the madness is called "unrealistic".
Israel better pray that all these Arab nations don't decide to turn around and use the arsenal the US is providing them with on. That would be just too sweet justice.
Please stop insulting all Iranians and refer to the Persian Gulf by its real name.
Mr Ditz has a habit of referring to the Persian Gulf as Gulf either because he is simply ignorant or likes to promote the self-righteous agenda of the brutal Persian Gulf littoral Arab dictatorships, among others.
As for the bunker busters, UAE has no use for these bombs as the country does not have the means. It will be Pakistani and other foreign pilots that have to risk their lives to infiltrate Iranian airspace through the heavily protected Persian Gulf shore air defenses. The French also will have to play a major role in utilizing these bombs, and if they do, Mr Sargoozy will be the first to pay the price inside his castle.
In reality UAE is a country built on shifting sand and their mega luxury lifestyle is like living inside a glass dome where a small pebble with shatter their entire city. They will not lift a finger against Iran, even though Iran will strike them second, after Qatar, if attacked.
Again, although AntiWar has shifted to the right, as the large number of article from the propagandist right-wing media indicates, to use a fictitious name instead of the Persian Gulf in the image of Arab despots is an insult to all Iranians, including myself.