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The Defense Department has asked for $88 million to retrofit B-2 Stealth bombers so they can carry 30,000-pound “bunker buster” bombs. The request is included in the president's latest war funding list and is described as an “urgent operational need from theater commanders.”

Where is there a need at present for such ordnance? As this New York Post article says bombing in Iraq or Afghanistan doesn't require stealth aircraft. That would seem to only leave our friend the great unwashed madman Mahmoud in Iran. The MOP (massive ordnance penetrator) or "bunker buster" has the capacity to destroy targets that are deep underground. The only reason to retrofit Stealth bombers to carry them would seem to be Iran's nuclear facilities.

Negotiation is leading nowhere and Putin and China are obviously not going to help. Whether the party of peace at any price likes it or not we must be ready for what seems to be inevitable. Check out what John Bolton has to say about Iran here.