Enjoy.
Posted on 08/11/2006 5:59:02 AM PDT by SJackson
(/sarc off)
True -- and send along the personnel to use them.
The State Department needs a good ol' fashioned Stalin-type purge.
From what I've read, Hezbollah is dug into a system of bunkers and tunnels, which means these cluster rockets would be ineffective against them. So I'm inclined to doubt this story. Israel needs bunker-buster bombs instead to collapse and destroy the bunkers and tunnels.
I certainly hope so, because I have serious doubts that anybody really wants to win these wars. Take the damned gloves off and let them unleash a hell on these turds! No country should have to live in fear day after day for one year, let alone 20 or 30. This insanity of acceptance has just got to stop!
Sorry, I'm seeing a lot of talk about Israeli surrenders and UN cease-fires and Olmert uncertain of his next step. Forward dammit!
Don't worry about Israel. I wouldn't take the current cease-fire negotiations at face value.
This is another example of a story where the New York Times is so far to the left on an issue that they think their story is going to hurt Bush, but the story actually ends up helping Bush. The NY Times thought the NSA wirtetapping story would hurt Bush, but most Americans want the NSA to use all available tools to prevent terrorist attacks. This is another example of this amusing phenomenon, where the Times thinks America will be disgusted by the use of cluster-bomb rockets, but instead most people will in fact support their use against Hezbollah.
From your lips to God's ear. The State Department needs cleaning ASAP.
Enjoy.
Our own domestic politics are going to continue to make the US an unreliable source for these weapons, and Israel needs to have such weapons in their arsenal.
They should use such weapons cautiously, but the Israelis have demonstrated an amazing level of restraint and have limited civilian casualties to an amazingly small number for this size of conflict.
I believe that we should sell them these munitions, but I also don't think that Israel can afford to rely on us for these types of weapons.
Israel Asks U.S. to Ship Rockets With Wide Blast (Cluster bombs)
New York Times | August 11, 2006 | DAVID S. CLOUD
Posted on 08/11/2006 3:53:25 AM EDT by tlb
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1681679/posts
It is a mistake to assume that our State Department is on our side. The objection to cluster munitions isn't on the basis of immediate civilian casualties, but is a nod to the international campaign against landmines. Bomblets that do not go off are a very dangerous residue of war.
Unfortunately this sort of restraint sounds much better in the drawing room than it does in the field. This particular munition is most effective against dispersed infantry and soft-skinned vehicles, and that is precisely what the IDF is facing. And there isn't really a problem with civilians returning to the area if there isn't anything to return to and it's cordoned off. That is a cruel thing for those civilians whose homes are lost in that way. It is equally cruel for those Israeli civilians who are in the same condition.
Condi Rice strikes again...
Cease fire!!! (so Hizbollah can rearm)
No ammo for Israel, either!!! (can't have Israel killing any of those lovely Hizbollah member, now can we)
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And of course, here at the Free Republic...
...Condi Rice for President!!!
She'd be 'great' in the war on terror... oh yes, she'd be GREAT!
(Yeah, great for the fricking terrorists.)
Should we send them Yao Ming?
Napalm would be extremely effective in the enclosed spaces of a tunnel network.
Israel already builds & even exports cluster munitions built by IMI.But the problem mayb that IMI may have little ready stock & purchase of indegnious stuff is not covered under US military aid.
The State Department, as usual, is supporting the enemy...
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