Obama’s Navy Bombed the Great Barrier Reef

Remember when Obama said that now is the time that the world would begin to heal itself and the tides stop rising? Well, his Navy just deliberately bombed the Great Barrier Reef, wiping out Nemo, Dory and his friends.

From the Guardian here:

Two American fighter jets dropped four unarmed bombs into Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park last week, when a training exercise went wrong, the US Navy said, angering environmentalists.

The two AV-8B Harrier jets, launched from the aircraft carrier USS Bonhomme Richard, each jettisoned an inert practice bomb and an unarmed laser-guided explosive bomb into the World Heritage-listed marine park off the coast of Queensland state on Tuesday.

The jets, from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, had intended to drop the ordnances on the Townshend Island bombing range, but aborted the mission when controllers reported the area was not clear of hazards. The pilots conducted the emergency jettison because they were low on fuel and could not land with their bomb load, the Navy said.

Australian Senator Larissa Waters, the influential Greens spokeswoman on the Great Barrier Reef, described the dumping of bombs in such an environmentally sensitive area as “outrageous” and said it should not be allowed.

“Have we gone completely mad?” she told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. “Is this how we look after our World Heritage area now? Letting a foreign power drop bombs on it?”

I loving making environmental hippies’ heads explode by bombing reefs as much as the next guy, but bombing the reef with fighter jets is beyond awesome! I’m sure Obama was out playing golf when it happened.