Loading ...Leavitt is starting to sound as dumb as the black labradoodle. And it’s sounding more and more like Iraq except that Iran is working towards a bomb. “Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000lb bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.”
Yeah, but they aren’t 30,000lb bombs, sweetheart. It’s a 5,342lb bomb in a 27,000lb body. By comparison, Britain’s Grand Slam, a development of Barnes Wallis’s original Tallboy earthquake bomb, was 9,500lb of explosive in a 12,500lb casing, making the modified Lancasters almost unflyable, but hey that’s what “very brave pilots” are for.
Total obliteration? You just don’t know. You’ve no way of verifying what happened in the mountain. And if the targets had been moved (you don’t need all them trucks for 400kg of uranium) then they weren’t “perfectly on their targets”.
And Trump’s “very brave pilots” flying at high altitude over an area with no aircraft and vastly diminished air defences: yeah, all operations have risks, but for this one the greater risks were probably refuelling problems rather than the enemy.
Contrast all this fluff and bluster with the measured, understated comments of Ian MacDonald, MOD spokesman during the Falklands war.