Why We Fight Page #6

I'm not a millionaire.

I can't build schools and libraries.

We're just a regular couple on pension.

I want to be able to do something.

So that hopefully one day,

I can go over to my son's grave...

and tell him that I've done

something in his memory

that hopefully will be a step in

preventing another attack like that.

After September 11, the Pentagon unveiled

a new weapon for use against terrorists.

The bomb is designed to be

delivered inside a target.

My expertise is an explosive technology.

And so are a lot of my

colleagues here at Indian Head.

When Pentagon called, my position then was

the head of what we call 'the pay load team'.

A bomb, it's the Norman cliche for bomb.

I find it's sometimes

amusing when people ask me,

'where do you work?' and I would

say explosive. And they would...

But our mission was to quickly weaponize

what was called a 'penetrator'.

It basically was a big bomb, engineered

to enhance its blast effect...

inside confine structures, such

as tunnels, caves, et cetera.

We're gonna attack somebody, we're gonna

bomb some place, there's no question about that.

The question is, where are

we gonna do it and why?

Do you think that after an

advisory gets nuclear weapons...

is a better time to engage that

advisory then now without?

Iraq continues to flaw in its hostility

toward America and to support terror.

This is a regime that has something

to hide from the civilized world.

The invasion of Iraq in 2003, is to

a very considerable extent about...

repositioning the United States as

the country that must be obeyed.

It's an easy way to send the

signal to the planet, that the

United States is in charge and

it's going to what it wants.

And anybody who defies the

United States will be punished.

The decision to attack Iraqi

leadership at the opening selva,

it was a bold new, it was

a new way of making war.

And technology was able to provide

our leadership that opportunity.

Now we have received this new weapon,

called the 'Enhanced gutter bomb unit 27'.

And it was like the new

candy at the candy store.

We needed something that was gonna give us

a capability to strike through the weather

and don't worry about having

to bring the bombs home.

The whole of the city is

still lit very brightly.

But nobody's moving on the streets whatsoever.

It's like everybody here

is holding their breath.

We really didn't know who was there and...

who was gonna take the blow

of what we're about to do.

We both probably had our

suspicions about who it was.

We've got some indications that

maybe sons maybe Saddam himself.

Assassination, people sometimes

think with precision weapons

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