Dennis Kucinich: “Some Democrats are worried that President Bush's funding request to enable B-2 "stealth" bombers to carry a new…”

“Some Democrats are worried that President Bush's funding request to enable B-2 "stealth" bombers to carry a new 30,000-pound "bunker buster" bomb is a sign of plans for an attack on Iran. Buried in the $196.4 billion supplemental war spending proposal that Bush submitted to Congress on Oct. 22 is a request for $88 million to modify B-2 bombers so they can drop a Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, a conventional bomb still in development that is the most powerful weapon designed to destroy targets deep underground. A White House summary, accompanying the supplemental spending proposal said the request for money to modify B-2s to carry the bombs came in response to "an urgent operational need from theater commanders." The summary provided no further details. The White House and the Air Force, in response to queries, did not provide additional clarification. Previous statements by the Defense Department and the program's contractors, along with interviews with military experts, suggest the weapon is meant for the kind of hardened targets found chiefly in Iran, which Bush suspects developing nuclear weapons capability, and North Korea, which already has tested a nuclear device.”