Posted on 01/19/2006 9:35:40 AM PST by Jonah Johansen
Target Practice Washingtons enthusiasm for remote-control assassination is partly about boys with toys. But after disasters like the failed attempt on Zawahiri, we need to take a closer look at the tactic......
......Some accounts suggest the Germans gave no help at all, others that their main purpose was to make sure certain locations like hospitals, embassies and shelters were not hit. If so, and if they helped avoid another disaster like the 1999 bombing of Chinas embassy in Belgrade, or an atrocity like the 1991 obliteration of a bomb shelter in Baghdad, then they did the United States a great service. They may not have saved us from ourselves in this thankless war, but they might have kept us from murdering even more Iraqi civilians
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I am sorry. But until Newsweak apologises for the hundreds of Americans their fraudlent "Flush the Koran" story has, and will kill. they have no moral standing to render any judgements on anything. They have ZERO intellectual or moral crediblity.
But after disasters like the failed attempt on Zawahiri,
Huh?
>>>>Washingtons enthusiasm for remote-control assassination is partly about boys with toys. But after disasters like the failed attempt on Zawahiri, we need to take a closer look at the tactic...... <<<<
This quote reveals two things immediately: Newsweek has ZERO grasp of the serious nature of combat, and Newsweek has ZERO grasp of the facts.
BTW, I don't call an attack where several of the top Al Q'aida guys were taken out a "disaster"... no one in their right mind would, either. The utter fallacy of non-lethal warfare, which liberals embrace with a lemming-esque abandonment of rationale, will never, ever, EVER hold up to real life.
Newsweak never publishes "news". I flush in their general direction.
"But after disasters like the failed attempt on Zawahiri,
Huh?"
Count on these guys to be behind the news cycle.
The moonbats have a habit of being WAY behind actual events. If this had been published last week it might have caused some damage. With the possibility some major AQ talent was reduced to compost in that "failed" attack....well, sounds exactly like what it is: stupid.
That was no Iraqi "bomb shelter"!! MF'ers!! It was a known military bunker (supposedly command and control) that, unbeknownst to the mission planners, had been converted to a "bomb shelter". We hit it and rightfully so. It was a military target. You don't put up a fence and barbed wire around a bomb shelter. Newsweak has hit below the belt with that statement, but then again, what else is new.
Rant off
SZ
Oops. Here it is.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/iraq2002/89776_iraq04.shtml
Front-runner for Flaming Asshat of the Week.
Only one thing could explain an attitude as pissy AND prissy as this: prolapsed colon.
I fail to see how killing bomb makers and mass poisoners is a "failure" - looks pretty much on the mark, but heck, that's just me.
Well, just between you and me, I think that ol' Zawahiri may have been one of the bodies they took away with them after the attack.
Because there were eye-witness reports they took away several bodies. And the ones they left behind we pretty far up the AQ food chain, so until he proves differently, I am going to presume we got the bastard.
1) The 2006 bombing against Al-Zawaheri in Afghanistan was a SUCCESS: 4 known terrorists ided, plus sympathizers including the Al Qaida top bopmb maker who had a $5M bounty on his head.
2) 1999 China Embassy Belgard bombing was a success. Officially it was a mistake but Chinese embassy had been receiving parts of the downed F-117 stealth fighter.
3) 1991 Baghdad bunker was a communicationcs command and control center (yes it had a civilian bunker as well). This building had been under direct ground surveillance and the bomb was laser guided by a man on the ground only a couple of blocks away.
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