The Israelis first requested the bunker busters in 2005, only to be rebuffed by the Bush administration. At the time, the Pentagon had frozen almost all U.S.-Israeli joint defense projects out of concern that Israel was transferring advanced military technology to China.
In 2007, Bush informed Ehud Olmert, then prime minister, that he would order the bunker busters for delivery in 2009 or 2010. The Israelis wanted them in 2007. Obama finally released the weapons in 2009, according to officials familiar with the still-secret decision.James Cartwright, the Marine Corps general who served until August as the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Newsweek the military chiefs had no objections to the sale. Rather, Cartwright said, there was a concern about “how the Iranians would perceive it,” and “how the Israelis might perceive it.” In other words, would the sale be seen as a green light for Israel to attack Iran’s secret nuclear sites one day? FROM HERE.
I am not surprised. Not in the least. I think what has happened was that President Obama was hewing faithfully to the traditional pro-Israeli stance espoused by his predecessors.
ReplyDeletePerhaps, not counting Bush 43, but you get the drift.
It's Pavlovian response Politics, AK. With the same result - foaming at the mouth.
ReplyDeleteIsrael is/has been armed to the teeth.
ReplyDeleteThey are hoarding offensive, not defensive weapons.
Why do they need nuclear armed submarines?
When will they finally admit that they are a nuclear weaponized power.
Obusha is falling in step with the same idiotic policy that Israel bought and paid for long ago.