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Letter: Nothing cute about bombs

By Michael Burton,VANCOUVER
Published: April 22, 2017, 6:00am

Please stop calling the weapon dropped by the U.S. in Afghanistan as “mother” — there is nothing motherly about it. Correctly the GBU-43B is a “Massive Ordinance Air Blast” bomb. It is designed to explode just above the ground before impact. It is an anti-personnel weapon. It is similar to a weapon used in Vietnam known as a “daisy cutter.”

Just like the term “daisy cutter,” using the term “mother” to signify a 22,000-pound bomb that could destroy everything within a one-mile radius makes them sound “cute.” Cute they are not; they are meant to kill on a mass basis.

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