2 B-2's can take out Iran's nuclear ambitions

[killerbush]

According to senior military officals, all we would need to take out Iran's nuclear ambitions, is 2 B-2 aircraft. The offical, who was interviewed by Arnaud de Borchgrave, said the plane could take out multiple target sites in a few hours time.

Also a paper in Pakistan says that by the time the Bush administration is done with its term, those sites will indeed be taken out.

http://www.rawstory.com

[Karmakaze]

1. Armed with what though???

Because many of those nuclear sites are in deeply buried bunkers, and the deepest a conventional "bunker buster" can go is something like 30 feet. So the B-2 would have to be armed with nukes to take them out.

There is one other problem though - even if you blow up all their nuclear sites, what stops the Iranians from building more? But this time, because you have commited an act of war on them, you can be DAMNED sure they will be putting every gram of Uranium into bombs.

[benburch]

2. A 15 MT thermonuclear weapon groundburst.

Leaves a crater 200 feet deep and pulverizes everything down to 300 feet.

And we have a much larger weapon in reserve, but only the B-52 can carry it.

[maine_raptor]

3. Oh please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"the plane could take out multiple target sites in a few hours time"

Yea, right, like the Iranians are going to be sitting around all that time saying; "What was that?"

By the third one, at the latest, they'll be thowing enough flak in the air around those sites that you could walk on it (as my ex-B-17 pilot uncle used to say).

[Crayson]

4. 1 box cutter could take out half of the US financial infrastructure.

Pretty efficient (bitter irony)...

Why do you people always think in terms of bombs and guns?
There's hundreds of other possibilities to do damage.

I'm sure that you can pretty easily find a dissident among the Iranian nuclear scientist who could do significant damage to the facilities in a more subtile and possibly even cheaper way than sending warplanes and openly outting oneself as an aggressor nation.

[killerbush]

5. I don't think of using bombs or guns

But the idiot in the White House certainly does.

[tatertop]

6. Hurting our oil flow will be job one, and it will take us down.

They have been working out a
strategy for years.
They WILL cut all traffic thru the Straight of Hormuz
and that is just the start.
They are going to light us up, count on it.

Bombing those totally legal nuclear 'sites'
might be easy, defending against oil at 150+ a barrel
will be impossible.